BizTech Brief #4

BizTech Brief #4

The summer holidays are now well and truly upon us, whilst the offices are all getting a little quieter the world of tech doesn't sleep. In our forth BizTech Brief we are looking into this week's tech news and highlighting some articles we think you will enjoy.

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10ZiG Cloud Manager

10ZiG Cloud Manager

Customers using 10Zig Thin and Zero Client end-point devices have successfully used the 10ZiG Manager to centrally register and configure their on-premise Thin or Zero Client deployments, recently 10Zig Have announced the introduction of a product called the 10ZiG Cloud Manager. The 10ZiG cloud manager allows for simple on-premise management and administration of 10ZiG thin and zero clients connecting to the corporate infrastructure via the internet.

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NVIDIA GRID Technology Overview and #GRIDdays Discussion

NVIDIA GRID Technology Overview and #GRIDdays Discussion

Barry Coombs from ComputerWorld caught up with Jason Southern (NVIDIA GRID technology evangelist & solution specialist) to discuss his recent trip to their Calfornia HQ for #GRIDdays and also to dig a  deeper into the NVIDIA GRID technology in general starting with the K1 and K2 cards, before focusing on the newer M60 and M6 cards and their integration with VMware Horizon 7 and specifically the Blast Extreme Protocol. 

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NVIDIA GRID Days - Day 2

NVIDIA GRID Days - Day 2

The second day for GRID Days focused on two main aspects, the first getting deep with the NVIDIA GRID technology with everything from architecture to sizing methodologies and secondly our thoughts around building a community program, what is important to us in community programs and what should it contain.

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nVidia GRID Days - Day 1

I was lucky enough to be chosen amongst a select few in the end user computing community to attend NVIDIA's California HQ for their GRID days event, the event was going to focus on NVIDIA starting a community program and bring some of the community influencers together to take a deep dive into their technology now and into the future.  

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2016 VMware vExpert Award

I was honoured to learn on Friday that for the sixth year I have been awarded the VMware vExpert status.  I would like to congratulate the fellow vExperts and welcome any new vExperts to the group. 

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Video with Atlantis Computing about their new CX4 and the Dell partnership

Video with Atlantis Computing about their new CX4 and the Dell partnership

I was lucky enough to be able to catchup with David Cumberworth VP of global sales at Atlantis Computing to talk about their new

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An Introduction to Enterprise Mobility Management

The days of employee’s needing to sit at a desk Monday to Friday from 9-5 to perform their job are long gone, technology continues to advance at a pace driven by our increasing desire to be able to do what we need to do wherever we are and on a schedule that fits with our increasingly busy lives

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UEM Network Drive Management

Traditionally you might map user network drives via a logon script or maybe a group policy preference.  VMware’s User Environment Manager (UEM) gives you some other nice options in the fun filled world of drive mappings!

We can take a conventional approach by mapping a drive for all users or targeting by an AD object such as group or OU.  OK, so far so group policy preferences!

  

 

 

Why don’t we map a drive on a per application basis?  Using UEM we can associate the mapped drive with an app and set it to apply ‘on demand’ when said application is launched.  This avoids the need for the drive mapping to happen at user logon but it is available when required. 

  

 

 

But what about my power users that want to be able to manually map drives (and persist them across devices)?  UEM does not capture these manually mapped drives by default but we can add the below registry location so this information is stored and reproduced in a different session

I’ve used network drives as an example here but by moving application settings into UEM we can optimise the logon process, provide a consistent user experience and control all relevant app settings in one place.  Very Nice!