There are few things I love more than talking with Workspot customers and prospects. In this “Conversations with Customers” blog series, I usually report to you about my conversations with prospects and their requirements. This week I’m shifting gears a bit because one of the conversations I had with an existing Workspot customer underscores how… Read more
Blog Category: Customer Stories
Conversations with Customers: Cloud Desktops for Financial Services Firms
My conversation with this leading financial services firm was an eye-opener. Hearing first-hand how tough the regulatory environment is for these firms is no surprise, but it reminded me why they have shunned public cloud adoption for so long. Along with the healthcare industry, financial services firms are probably more subject to data privacy and… Read more
Webinar Series: Workspot Cloud Conversations with CIOs & Microsoft
When you discover something great, you want to share it with your family, friends and colleagues, right? That’s exactly what we’re doing during our upcoming webinar series with Microsoft and two of our customers. Our webinar series reflects the cloud conversations we are having with CIOs around the world! We’re teaming up with our friends… Read more
Conversations with Customers: Out with VDI, In With Desktop Cloud for Legal
In my many years in the VDI business, I have engaged with law firms large and small, all over the world, to help them derive value from virtual desktops. It’s surprising how many law firms were early adopters of VDI, because these firms tend to have small IT staffs, so the herculean effort involved in… Read more
Conversations with Customers: Autodesk University 2018
What a great event Autodesk threw in Las Vegas this year! We were fortunate to have two customers speak at the event; these architecture, engineering & construction (AEC) firms shared their experiences deploying Workspot cloud workstations on Microsoft Azure. The business outcomes are really exciting for them (and we’re excited for them too!). Tune in… Read more
Conversations with Customers: You Can Retire! (Your Data Center that is…)
One of the meetings I had this week with a company inquiring about Workspot inspired this blog, because there must be plenty of IT leaders out there thinking in the same way as the folks I spoke with. Although this company knows they need to move to the cloud, they are in a situation where… Read more
Conversations with Customers: How PC in the Cloud is Different than VDI
There’s nothing I like better than talking with IT leaders as they evaluate or re-evaluate their IT infrastructure and consider their options for virtual desktops. It’s one of the things I enjoyed most about the many years I spent in Executive Briefing Centers all over the world discussing the benefits of virtual desktops. All too many… Read more
To Fearlessness & Innovation: Cheers to the CIO 100 Tech Leaders!
CIO Magazine’s 2018 celebration of innovative thinking and highly impactful technology execution was held in Southern California. It was an impressive group of CIOs and leaders in technology, business, and academia that gathered at the beautiful Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes for the annual CIO 100 Symposium. The three-day program of keynotes, panel discussions… Read more
GPU Workstations Make a Grand Entrance to the Cloud
When was the last time someone raved about how great their virtual GPU workstations performed? Pretty much never? Over and over, we’ve heard the stories from the trenches: Using traditional VDI to deliver high-performance workstations typically fails the performance, simplicity and “CIO, CAD manager, and design engineer” test. Workspot Workstation Cloud, with GPU-accelerated Windows 10 Desktops… Read more
Cloud Workstations Drive Corporate Growth at Engineering Firm Mead & Hunt
Author: Andy Knauf, CIO, Mead & Hunt Guest blogger Andy Knauf, CIO of Mead & Hunt, shares his journey to cloud GPU workstations. Have you ever been challenged with opening a new architecture-engineering consulting office, 1,000 miles away, within three weeks? Well, if you ever are, I have some tips for you, because that’s exactly… Read more
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