"With the continuing growth of our company and ever increasing business needs, a migration to a more feature rich and flexible email system is a natural progression," said Michael Payne, senior systems administrator, Rent-A-Center. "Since deploying VMware Zimbra across more than 5,000 Rent-A-Center locations, we now realize that true collaboration is about so much more. We look forward to implementing VMware Zimbra 7 which will allow our employees to stay connected with each other, from their stores or on the road, via a collaboration platform that offers email, dynamic calendaring and file sharing." VMware Zimbra 7 features new data sharing capabilities, expanded calendaring and search functionality, and upgraded management features for both IT and end-users. With this update, Zimbra is further optimized for both the casual and power-user, establishing a platform ... (more)

CIISI Partners with System Integrator

Jinan Yinquan Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Intelligence Information Systems, announced on Monday that its alliance system integrator (the SI) has signed a virtualization contract with Shandong SEM Machinery Co., Ltd. to implement an integrated virtualization solution at the customers' datacenter. Mr. Kunwu Li, President and CEO of CIISI, noted, "We are glad to see our turn-key solutions have helped our SIs to expand their businesses. Yinquan played very important roles in assisting the SIs in these projects.  Using our own sales force and leveraging our SI part... (more)

Measure the True Enterprise Impact of Cloud Computing

Everyone in the IT industry knows by now that cloud computing is exploding. Gartner said cloud computing was its number-one area of inquiry in 2010, and hype for the popular computing movement peaked last summer according to its 2010 Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing. Regardless of what the media says, cloud is now a real option for delivery of IT services to business, and organizations of all sizes need to determine how they can generate real business benefit from using cloud. Industry discussion about its benefits still tend to be more focused on such IT advantages as IT capacity ... (more)

Cloud and Managed Services Spending Forecast

Gartner recently shared their top technology predictions. They said that increased transparency -- and the need to drive business value -- are bringing disruptive change to IT organizations in 2011 and beyond. One of their key findings: cloud computing will enable many organizations to exploit internal capabilities to establish new business service revenue streams. Other informed industry analysts share a similar point of view. Businesses are increasingly moving their computing and collaboration applications to the cloud, and their shift in IT spending reflects that change in beha... (more)

My First Experience with Spoon - A Desktop App Delivery Platform

At first look, my experience as an end user was seamless and within a few minutes, I was ready to launch my first Spoon App, Notepad+, awesome work. I have used app stream, but myexperience with Spoon was seamless. What Is Spoon All About? Spoon is about streaming desktop apps from the Cloud to your desktop/laptop machine, It helps you to quickly access your favorite applications without installing them. This is a great feature for anyone like me who does not have a discipline to keep their machine clean with regular patches...etc. It is similar to Java webstart but there are noti... (more)