Category: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

When the COVID-19 pandemic turned everything on its head earlier this year, practically every industry was affected, and the federal government was no exception. Many agencies were forced to look teleworking in the face and learn how to step into that environment more quickly than ever before. Two of the biggest challenges to making the […]

With the cyber security threat landscape getting bigger by the second, every security professional wants to limit their network’s attack surface. Current physical networks and traditional firewalls may prove that task difficult as bad actors find more and more ways to exploit the legacy technology. Fortunately, if you’re deploying a software-defined network or working with […]

According to a recent survey conducted by 1105Media, 1/3 of the agencies surveyed have adopted a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), enabling their users a consistent experience and secure access. VDI is virtualization technology that allows an organization to host a desktop operating system on a centralized server in a data center. Iron Bow partner VMware […]

This past month, Iron Bow attended Dell EMC World 2017 in Las Vegas. During my trip, I had the pleasure of discussing current, future and emerging technologies across the industry. At Iron Bow, I have seen these trends emerge first-hand, as have the over 12,000 IT practitioners and business leaders in attendance. Virtualization (both server […]

Once upon a time, managing applications was a fairly straight forward process.  In that simpler world, IT staff delivered applications utilizing dedicated file servers consisting of compute, memory and storage. This nostalgic data center environment was easy to manage and maintain. As time went on, however, the application infrastructure became virtualized, storage shared, and the […]

As government agencies and commercial organizations gear up for budget season or embark on long-term planning exercises, one area that many grapple with is the data center. Cloud, SDN, virtualization, mobility—as technologies change and price points for once cost-prohibitive solutions decrease, it can be hard to know what the data center will look like five […]

As many of our readers know, TechSource is debuting a new awards program this year, with a focus on innovation in IT. The TechSource Awards seek to highlight innovative uses of technologies that help drive an organization’s mission forward by increasing efficiencies. While winners will be officially announced at the start of the New Year, […]

We recently had a chance to sit down with several members of Iron Bow’s team to discuss the role of managed services in the transition to the cloud. Jim Smid, CTO; Pat Rainville, Director of Cloud & Managed Services Sales, Commercial and Chris Sibold, Director of Cloud & Managed Services Sales, Federal, shared insights about […]

The healthcare arena is being transformed by key innovations in the form of big data analytics and storage, mobility, cloud computing and virtualization.  In addition, IT is pushing care from being reactive to proactive, with advances in patient data sharing creating a complete paradigm shift in healthcare. These are some of the insights from a […]

Federal agencies are under a tremendous amount of pressure to maximize every bit of compute power in smart and cost-effective ways. Data center consolidation efforts are driving agencies to embrace virtualization for meeting this goal. In addition, sequestration is pushing federal CIOs to think differently and move away from swapping out equipment every two to […]

There are several popular misconceptions about cloud and virtualization. One of the most popular is  virtualization versus cloud.  It is not one or the another, but rather the first step to moving to the cloud is virtualization, says Todd Cowles of Iron Bow, in this latest video. However, there is often a gap between virtualization and […]

There is a theory that was developed by a computer programmer, Melvin Conway, which goes like this, “organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.” Basically, if your organization has a dysfunctional or disparate communication structure at its core, the technology initiatives you […]

Sequestration and the breakdown of the normal budgeting process has many agencies uncertain as to how much money — if any — they will have to spend in the year ahead. With this in mind, and with many agencies being faced with the mandate to do more with less, 2014 will be the year of […]