Hybrid Working: Three factors companies must consider

With Google announcing that they will be giving their staff the option of hybrid working when their offices re-open in June, we are already seeing major organizations attempt to integrate work at home into standard business practice. Hybrid working (or work from anywhere strategy, as referred to in our recent webinar with Anne Bibb) can be seen as the best of both worlds for employers and employees. 

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Fortify business resilience with ThinKiosk

At the beginning of 2020, companies faced a drastic and sudden shift in their business continuity planning, where work at home quickly became the only viable solution. This resulted in companies, en-masse, moving devices from location to their employees’ homes to continue operation.
This “Lift and shift” method companies were using prioritized speed and accessibility above all else. The most important thing was getting people working, accessing business-essential applications from home. This mostly took the form of a standard windows machine and a VPN to provide a secure connection. However, this method left much to be desired. In this post, we’ll be going through some of the challenges companies faced when employing this strategy of work at home enablement, what we can learn from these challenges, and how ThinKiosk provides an endpoint solution that improves companies’ business resilience.

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IntelliPerform: Filling the gap WSRM left behind

Introduction

VDI environments (whether you are running them yourself or an MSP hosting for multiple users) are implemented for their convenience, cost-effectiveness, and manageability, however, when providing a whole workforce all of their desktops and applications from one location, performance issues are bound to arise. 
Resources in VDI environments are shared and often all it takes is one power user or one runaway process to severely impact the experience of everyone on a server. Even worse these can cause the server itself to crash.
In this post, I will discuss an approach that Windows took to resolve this issue on their 2008 – 2012 servers, what happened to that solution and how IntelliPerform can fill the gap it left behind AND more.

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ThinKiosk 5.4 Release

ThinKiosk was released in 2015 as the first Windows-based PC to thin-client converter.  Today, with the release of 5.4 we have added a number of additional features focused on improving performance and experience (full details in the release notes). We’ve picked a few features to talk about below, these features improve the end-user experience by bringing the functionality of Windows into the secured ThinKiosk UI – providing that ease of use people are accustomed to. Whether it be in multi-monitor environments or presenting on 4K televisions, 5.4’s got you covered!

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ThinKiosk or GPOs: What suits your VDI environment?

ThinKiosk was developed in 2015 from within the virtualization community to provide a full thin client experience to any Windows x64/x86 device for access to virtual environments and secure utilization of local resources. While also providing a convenient solution for IT admins that makes management, control, and compliance over their entire estate easier.

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