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week’s Enterprise Dish podcast was like an out-of-control IT freight train, bringing news so fast that it is literally outdated by the time I have a chance to write about it.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Aaron’s small talk about the weather – lamenting a heatwave sweeping the rest of the country but sparing Seattle – is out-of-date […]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 »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 »What is the Metaverse? In Neil Stephenson‘s seminal 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, it was a virtual space in which human-controlled avatars interacted online for every conceivable purpose—work, play, entertainment, commerce, friendship, dating, criminality, vice, and espionage—essentially all of the same purposes that the current internet is used for. A virtual reality (VR) extension of […]
read more »I have a reliable habit of looking at innovative electronics as a new device and thinking, “Nice! But not for me.” That’s how I reacted to the BB-8 toy – essentially a real-life version of a movie robot, minus the strong general AI. I’m glad it exists! I think I played with one in a […]
read more »And it’s September. What is there to talk about? The kids are starting to head back to school (depending on your location, perhaps they won’t be), and as Aaron noted in his most recent Enterprise Dish episode (embedded below), we’re nearing the start of a mad rush to get things done before the holidays and […]
read more »This month, I’ll be writing a reaction blog post to Aaron and Brad’s discussion on the Enterprise Dish podcast. This is not intended as a recap of what they discussed, and I may even contradict them some of the time (don’t tell Aaron!), so I would encourage you to check out their discussion as well, […]
read more »SmartDeploy named Momentum Leader in Summer 2020 G2 reports, exceeds 22,000 Windows 10 cloud deployments BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 30, 2020 — SmartDeploy, a leading provider of modern endpoint management solutions, today announced two “High Performer” and “Momentum Leader” rankings in the Summer 2020 G2 Grid reports. SmartDeploy was recognized in both the OS Imaging and […]
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