Since the beginning of the cloud revolution over the past decade, businesses worldwide have contemplated the best path for the technology driving their business. For the past several years, vendors, resellers, and solutions providers have touted the cloud as the "end all be all" for solving modern technology challenges. However, many organizations have invested fortunes to customize and...
Filed Under: Legacy Application Modernization, Legacy Applications, Cloud Application Delivery, Cloud Application Migration, Application Modernization, Virtual Application Delivery
In a recent conversation with one of the end-user device (EUD) industry’s leading analysts, he quipped, "After the apocalypse, three things will still be around: cockroaches, Twinkies and legacy Windows apps."
Filed Under: Independent Software Vendors, Legacy Application Modernization, Legacy Applications, Application Virtualization, Cloud Application Migration, Application Modernization, Cloud Shift, Virtual Application Delivery, Digital Workspaces, SaaS
According to Statcounter.com, 27% of Windows desktops are still running Windows 7 - despite the OS officially reaching the end of its life on January 14. Tech publication Gadget confirms this, stating that “around 28 percent” of the estimated 1.3 billion active Windows users are still on Windows 7. That means that there are still roughly 364M Windows 7 devices in the enterprise today.
Filed Under: Legacy Application Modernization, Cloud Application Migration, Application Modernization, Windows 10, Digital Transformation, Virtual Desktops, VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Windows Virtual Desktop, Windows 7
Cloud shift is in full swing and with it comes cloud migration challenges. Gartner projects that by 2020 more than $1 trillion in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to the cloud, making it “one of the most disruptive forces since the early days of the digital age.”
Filed Under: Legacy Applications, Application Virtualization, Cloud Application Migration, Cost Savings, Cloud Migration
Application virtualization has come a long way in the past few years. On a daily basis, we speak to customers about securely and cost-effectively delivering their productivity applications to users on any device from the Cloud.
Filed Under: Legacy Applications, Application Virtualization, Cloud Application Delivery, Cloud Application Migration, Cloud Migration, Chromebooks
In the heart of Rome, University of Rome La Sapienz – the oldest and largest university in the capital is at the frontier of STEM education. Students graduating from the school of Information Technology Engineering and Statistics move into organizations in both the public and private sectors, applying their practical and well-rounded knowledge of some of the most advanced IT concepts and...
Filed Under: Legacy Application Modernization, Cloud Application Migration, Cloud Migration
For as long as school budgets have existed, wisely spending funds has been an issue. One of the challenges schools face is keeping pace with technology. Enter cloud technologies - which bring the promise of cost-efficient tools for managing school IT environments.
Today, most schools have mandates in place to move everything to the cloud, giving all of their students access to applications and...
Filed Under: Legacy Application Modernization, Legacy Applications, Cloud Application Migration, Application Modernization, Cloud Migration, legacy application
What is application virtualization?
Application virtualization was designed to allow apps defined on a particular operating system (OS) to be used in a newer OS. It enabled two applications, that typically couldn't be installed on the same machine, to live side-by-side, addressing deployment challenges many administrators were facing at the time. While newer applications are typically...
Filed Under: Legacy Application Modernization, Legacy Applications, Application Virtualization, Cloud Application Delivery, Cloud Application Migration, Application Modernization, Cloud Migration
As you are moving through your application migration checklist, the choice between lift-and-shift and a re-architecture is not always clear. But it’s safe to say that lift-and-shift will almost always be the most cost-effective approach from both a time and cost perspective. There are different lift-and-shift solutions for migrating Windows applications to the cloud. Products in this field can be...
Filed Under: Application Virtualization, Cloud Application Delivery, Cloud Application Migration, Terminal Servers, Cloud Migration
Migrating IT components to the cloud can provide some major benefits. It lowers dependency on in-house IT and infrastructure. When done properly, it can save considerable IT costs. For example, many small & medium businesses struggle backup and version control. A move to the cloud can save IT these expensive operations or the costly consequences of not doing them properly. It is relatively easy...
Filed Under: Application Virtualization, Cloud Application Migration, Uncategorized, Cloud Migration