Washington Trust Bank Goes Mobile With VDI Using VMware View, Wyse, and Atlantis Computing
Atlantis Computing, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced that Washington Trust Bank, the largest independently owned full-service commercial bank in the Northwest, has deployed Atlantis ILIO as part of its VMware View 5 desktop virtualization deployment to enable employees to access their virtual desktop from anywhere using Wyse thin clients and zero clients, iPads, personal computers or repurposed corporate PCs.
"For us, VDI is really for our knowledge workers because they require mobility," said Christopher Green, vice president, IT Infrastructure Systems, Washington Trust Bank. "VMware View and Wyse cloud client computing solutions allows our mobile users to access their virtual desktop from anywhere they have an internet connection, over Wi-Fi or through the 3G devices that are provided to them."…
Transferring Big Data Securely with SEEBURGER
Along with Mobility and Cloud Computing, Big Data is one of the most important IT trends of 2012. All companies, to compete effectively, must deal with Big Data. But how can these huge files reach their location safely? Which transmission paths should be used?
Many companies expect to gain a competitive edge through the systematic evaluation of all its database information (Big Data). Such evaluation can lead to better customer service, streamlined logistics processes, targeted mailing lists, clarified market trends and more…
Cloud Computing: Google Closes Motorola Mobility Acquisition
Google said first thing Tuesday morning that it’s closed on its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc.
It’s been waiting nine months to clinch the deal and get its hands on Motorola’s patent portfolio. It finally got Chinese approval over the weekend albeit with conditions.
Motorola Mobility will be run as a separate business.
Google’s first move was to put its own boy in to run the joint. MMI CEO Sanjay Jha has stepped down replaced by Dennis Woodside, who has overseen integration planning for the acquisition and previously served as president of Google’s Americas region. Jha is supposed to continue working with Google to ensure a smooth transition…
Money, not technology, drives cloud growth, IT shrinkage
Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Kevin Fogarty.
Cloud computing may be the biggest thing ever to hit IT, but not for good solid technical reasons, and not because it gives IT the chance to show it really does know what their companies really need from technology to make the business shine.
Unfortunately, it’s finance, not technology driving the market for and implementations of cloud. It is also business units, not IT, that is driving adoption of cloud and the drastic changes to which IT is more observer than driving force…
Amazon CTO Tells Us How It Built Its Cloud Business Into The Best In The Industry
Amazon changed the world with cloud computing, giving the average Joe access to supercomputer power at ridiculously cheap prices.
Werner Vogels is Amazon’s CTO and a chief architect of its cloud. He is also one of most innovative people in the tech industry. He keeps Amazon Web Services (AWS) two steps ahead of the competition, even as countless new clouds come online to compete.
We wanted to know how he does it. So we asked. His advice can be boiled to to these six tips …
Rackspace’s Cloud Certification Program – Cheesy or Useful for IT Professionals?
Rackspace recently launched a Cloud Computing Certification program so that IT professionals can learn more about cloud computing and show their proficiency in it through taking a 10 quizzes with 10 questions each and a 50 question final exam.
So many IT professionals already know quite a bit about cloud computing and many are learning on the job and from their peers…
Cloud computing comes to healthcare as Telemis rolls out PACS data storage service
Telemis, the medical imaging solutions specialist, has added Cloud data storage offering increased flexibility, convenience and cost effectiveness to the options available for customers of its Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The Telemis cloud technology provides secure storage and access to data such as PET/CT scans, and meets all patient-data handling requirements imposed by local or national authorities.
Cloud computing is transforming the way many types of enterprises manage information and resources. Data in the cloud can be accessed where and when needed, while traditional in-house IT responsibilities like equipment maintenance, skills retention and backup can be avoided. Such advantages are attractive in the healthcare sector also, but additional, stringent security and privacy legislation applies. Moreover, the law can vary from country to country…
Wyse Brings Cloud Client Computing to EMC World; 200 Wyse P20 PCoIP Zero Clients Power Hands On Labs
Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced that the Wyse P20 PCoIP zero client will power the vSpecialist Labs at EMC World in Las Vegas at The Venetian. Wyse also will showcase its portfolio of cloud client solutions in booth #1043.
The Wyse P20 zero client will be the device that EMC World attendees will use at the EMC Hands On Labs. At the Hands On Labs (HoL) in Village Level 2, vSpecialists will guide users through a hands-on experience with the EMC portfolio of Cloud and Big Data. EMC Hands On Labs provide the opportunity for on-demand self-directed exercises on the full range of EMC products including: VMAX, VPLEX, RecoverPoint, VMware, RSA, Documentum, Avamar, Greenplum, VNX, Isilon, ProSphere, and Unisphere…
Office 365 Migration: Plan for the unknown

Office 365 Migration: Plan for the unknown
RBA Spotlights Cloud Efficiency in Growing Business Trends
RBA, a Minneapolis-based technology firm and a Microsoft Partner, is deploying Microsoft’s cloud-based Office 365 more and more for businesses looking to capitalize on the cloud’s efficiency. Cloud technology, an unproven concept until recently, has become commonplace in the modern information technology landscape.
RBA employees are finding that their “Cloud Computing 101” conversations with potential customers now frequently begin at a much higher knowledge level.
“It’s definitely settled more into, ‘I’m understanding the technology, it’s been proven and now I’m ready to think it through for my organization,’ ” said Karl Populorum, RBA’s vice president of sales and marketing…

