How To Proactively Prepare For The End-of-Life of Windows 7 (And The Birth of Evergreen IT)

Believe it or not, there are still more than 385 million devices in enterprise environments that are running on Windows 7  —  an operating system that has already lost its mainstream support on January 13, 2015 and will now finally get cut off from extended support on  January 14, 2020! While Windows 10 is estimated to catch up by November of this…

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5 Things To Consider Before Diving Head-First Into Application Virtualization

According to a new SpiceWorks State of IT – Trends, Budgets, and Purchase Drivers study, the biggest driver for enterprises to embrace virtualization and cloud computing is to (1) reduce the support burden on IT staff (33%) — followed closely by (2) increase their flexibility and scalability, (3) enhance disaster recovery capabilities, (4) provide their…

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5 Persistent Pitfalls To Avoid When Planning An IT Automation Investment

There are certain “gotchas” you can have a laugh about afterwards — but not planning your IT automation implementation adequately, and implementing inefficient processes that might be adjusted or, even worse, redone later on probably isn’t one of those times. Today, we are going to explore five common pitfalls enterprise IT organizations often stumble over as…

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How Will The New Windows 10 Servicing Model Impact Your Application Management Strategy

According to the just released Adaptiva 2018 Windows 10 Enterprise Impact Survey, only 40% (instead of the expected 52%) of organizations have reached their half-way milestone in their initial Windows 10 migration by now. The biggest hurdles they are experiencing are a lack of time, e.g., IT staff priorities, loss of employee productivity (61.9%), application…

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No MSIs For Office 2019 — And Why You Should Care

Microsoft recently announced that Office 2019, the company’s next perpetual Office suite (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Skype for Business applications as well as  Exchange, SharePoint, and Skype for Business servers) will be released some time this fall, with previews beginning to ship in the second quarter of 2018. If you read the announcement carefully,…

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