Over the last 18 months, our engineering team has moved quickly and adapt to the changing demands of today’s hybrid work environments, particularly for large enterprises who have had to drastically scale up the number of endpoints and employees working from outside of their corporate networks. We are pleased to share our first major version […]
read more »We are excited to announce a new major version release, SmartDeploy 3.0.1000! This has been an extensive project to undertake for the team and we are eager to get more customers upgraded to this new platform. Some of you were able to attend our January 2021 customer webcast where we gave you a sneak peek […]
read more »This week’s Enterprise Dish podcast was like an out-of-control IT freight train, bringing news so fast that it is literally outdated by the time I have a chance to write about it. Even Aaron’s small talk about the weather – lamenting a heatwave sweeping the rest of the country but sparing Seattle – is out-of-date […]
read more »Long live Flash It’s time for another Enterprise Dish, which Brad and Aaron begin with an oft-repeated, but now very real announcement: Flash is dead! Long live Flash: the Adobe plug-in that won the late ’90s/early ’00s internet with animations, prototypical viral memes, and shock sites to chill your bones. This technology was how rapid-fire […]
read more »Microsoft acquires Nuance for $20B As Brad and Aaron discussed Microsoft’s recent $20 billion (all-cash) purchase of Nuance Communications, I experienced a moment of speech recognition…recognition. The company name didn’t leap immediately to mind, but as they began discussing the company’s Dragon speech recognition software, it all came flooding back. Eleven years ago, on my […]
read more »Oh, Hafnium. Why couldn’t you remain a lustrous, silvery-gray, tetravalent transition metal whose characteristics were so irrelevant to our daily lives (except when it comes to semiconductor fabrication, amirite folks?) that they could’ve remained a perpetual Wikipedia search away for most of us? Why, instead, did you have to reveal yourself as the namesake of a suspected […]
read more »Hello, World! It is a new year on the same planet, and there is a light at the end of the COVID tunnel. Windows10X: an OS for budget devices In this month’s Enterprise Dish episode, Aaron and Brad reconvened to discuss Windows 10X, which is looking less like a rumor and more like a fully-formed […]
read more »Previously published on VMblog.com. It’s hard to look too far into the future right now. The pandemic is dominating work, home, and everything in between. We’re all thinking about managing risk, watching the news for the next shoe to drop. Still, it’s easy to see that some elements of the pandemic will stay with us far into the future. From our […]
read more »It’s November 2020. The election is over (or over-adjacent), Washington State is heading back into COVID-19 lockdown, and on top of all the practical realities that this will entail for me and my family (from childcare and educational uncertainties to our canceled Thanksgiving plans), my mind is being pulled in a hundred directions at once; […]
read more »Digital transformation is a serious buzzword. System integrators use it to win lucrative contracts. But it can bring real benefits to businesses. Done right and done well, digital transformation updates systems from disparate applications in disconnected “silos” to connected, well-integrated modular systems that function as a cohesive whole to address business needs. It’s not easy. […]
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