VDI and Branch Consolidation

VDI, Virtual Desktop, VMware, Consolidation

Should you consolidate branch office desktops to a VDI running at the core datacenter?

Pros:
1. For companies with a single IT staff at the main site, it will reduce the amount of support required at the branch sites.

2. Improves security. You won't have any data residing at the branches.

3. Will allow you to consolidate servers as well - desktops and servers woul...

Read more — Comments (33) — Apr 19, 2008

ISO 27001 and you

Disaster Recovery, backup, Risk Mitigation

ISO/IEC 27001:2005 - Information technology -- Security techniques -- Information security management systems is a series of best practice's for security control to meet the Information System Security Management minimum standards. These standards have been met out to insure global completeness of risk mitigation in IT. Corporations can, although they are not required to be, certified in ISO...

Read more — Comments (3438) — Apr 17, 2008