RES In the News

Reverse seamless windows: The secret to local apps on remote desktops 
Publication: Search Virtual Desktops
Date: April 18, 2012
Application and desktop virtualization, streaming, automated installation and packaging, virtual machine-hosted apps -- oh my! Dig around the hottest technologies and you'll quickly see that applications have become job number one. We've built mature infrastructures, secured their networks and learned how to best operate them, so what should we focus on next? Read More>>

MMS 2012 Video: RES HyperDrive demo
Publication: Consumerize IT
Date: April 18, 2012
Bob Jansenn, CTO of RES Software, gave me a quick demo of HyperDrive, live on the expo hall floor at Microsoft Management Summit 2012 in Las Vegas. Read More>>

The airline Airpost Europe secures its workstations with RES Software
Publication: Global Security Mag
Date: April 11, 2012
RES Software announces the deployment of its workspace management solutions within the airline Airpost Europe, a major French airline and member of the ASL Aviation international air services. Safety and regulatory compliance were key reasons for overhauling the organization’s infrastructure. The IT department of Europe Airpost must manage computer network access internal staff and to many different suppliers across multiple industries, including business administration, operations, catering, refueling and more. Read More>>

From File Share to ownCloud, Dropbox and RES HyperDrive 
Publication: EMA Blogs
Date: April 11, 2012
I was sitting in a plane recently, pulling out my iPad to enjoy one of my colleague’s excellent publications. After clicking the Dropbox icon, I noticed that I forgot to bookmark the actual document, so it did not replicate to the iPad. This rather annoying experience made me think about how far we have come regarding replicated and shared storage. It made me also think about where we may go from here. Read More>>

Consumerisation of IT: Why Context Matters 
Publication: BCS
Date: April 2012
Employees are growing more comfortable working from their own devices, whether these are laptops, smartphones or tablets. Users are also now more confident with self-service delivery of applications in their personal lives. Read More>>

Q: What is context-aware computing, and how might it aid healthcare IT?
Publication: Windows IT Pro
Date: March 20, 2012
A: Many of the technologies we take for granted today have their origins in solving the unique problems found in healthcare IT. If you think about the paths doctors take as they're running between examination rooms on a very limited time schedule, you'll quickly see how their every technology interaction must be highly optimized. Read More>>

NHS Trust uses desktop management software to aid Windows 7 migration
Publication: Computer World
Date: March 7, 2012
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has opted for software provided by RES to reduce log-on times for users and to aid its upcoming Windows 7 migration in the summer. Read More>>

RES Software releases RES Automation Manager 2012
Publication: eChannelline
Date: Feb 8, 2012
RES Software has announced the availability of RES Automation Manager 2012. RES Automation Manager equips enterprises with centralized management capabilities to automate daily tasks, better provision IT resources and enable service orchestration to provide the foundation for meeting the mobility and flexibility requirements of today's users. RES Automation Manager was also recently certified as Citrix Ready for Citrix XenDesktop 5.5 and Citrix XenApp 6.5. Read More>>

Desktop management vendors poised to challenge PC market
Publication: MicroScope.co.uk
Date: Feb 8, 2012
Desktop management and VDI strategies are proving a hot topic for the industry in the opening months of the year, with multiple solutions jostling for position as the migration to Windows 7 gathers pace and the PC market flounders. Read More>>

Meeting the Productivity Challenge in a Consumerized IT World
Publication: TechNewsWorld
Date: Jan 31, 2012
With the introduction of new devices, it's becoming more important than ever for IT to maintain control over what is being accessed, when and where. This requires consideration of the entire context of a user when determining access levels for services. A user's context includes application and data requirements, as well as other variables such as device type, physical location and time of day. Read More>>

RES Software Announce HyperDrive: follow-me-data more than sharing files or dropping stuff in a box
Publication: Virtualization Practice
Date: Jan 30, 2012
The problem with desktops is that they need a desk to be on top of. There are many people who trudge wearily to work each day who find that a solace: where else would they hang the note with their password on? Yet, increasingly there are those who judge the trudge too weary: for a better work/life balance, to reduce office space requirements, because it is better to go face-to-face with customers or quite frankly, you don’t want to work with beige any more. Read More>>

RES unveils HyperDrive file-sharing tool for enterprises
Publication: V3.co.uk
Date: Jan 26, 2012
RES Software has announced RES HyperDrive, a file sharing platform designed to let workers access files outside the company firewall, across different devices, and share them with colleagues, while allowing the IT department to retain control over security. Read More>>

RES Software announces on-premise Dropbox-like "follow me data" solution called RES HyperDrive
Publication: Consumerize IT
Date: Jan 26, 2012
User virtualization can also improve a company's security posture. RES Software, a Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based vendor, has a product called Workspace Manager that extracts all user settings and stores them outside of Windows user profiles. Read More>>

RES picks up new staff and partners
Publication: CRN
Date: Jan 05, 2012
User virtualization can also improve a company's security posture. RES Software, a Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based vendor, has a product called Workspace Manager that extracts all user settings and stores them outside of Windows user profiles. Read More>>

Innovation in Enterprise IT
Publication: EMA Blogs
Date: Jan 03, 2012
A friend of mine recently asked why I am even still interested in enterprise computing when all the innovation is happening within the consumer electronics sector. While we often find whole areas of enterprise IT dominated by traditional large vendors, we can also see a myriad of highly innovative startups looking at traditional IT challenges from a brand new perspective. Read More>>

2012: Veni, Vidi, VDI
Publication: Network Computing
Date: Dec 30, 2011
Will 2012 be the year desktop virtualization--a.k.a. VDI, thin-client computing or anything but Wintel--finally moves from primarily a vendor push to customer pull? The vendors--and pundits--have been shouting the praises of VDI for the last several years, but the reality has not come close to the hype. Read More>>

RES Software: 2012 - The Year of Context-aware ITaaS
Publication: VM Blog
Date: Dec 30, 2011
With the increasing adoption of devices such as smartphones, tablets, touch sensitive screens and sub compact, ultra portable hardware, enterprises are going to realize that their employees are using these to access data and applications throughout the day. Read More>>

Attention Vendors: If your products only work with virtual desktops in 2012, man… good luck with that!
Publication: Brian Madden
Date: Dec 21, 2011
One of my biggest themes of 2012 is going to be that desktop virtualization is more about "desktops" and less about "virtualization." Those who are (or who are to be) successful with desktop virtualization will be those who are successful with Windows desktops in general. If you get your "desktop" house in order, the "virtualization" part will be easy. Read More>>

RES Software bags third distributor
Publication: Channelweb.co.uk
Date: Dec 15, 2011
Workspace management vendor RES Software has signed a UK-wide deal with distribution newcomer Prianto. The distributor was launched in the channel back in August and specialises in technologies that complement the virtualisation products offered by the likes of VMware, Citrix and Microsoft. Read More>>

Desktop automation saves law firm Kennedys a fortune
Publication: Computer Business Review
Date: Dec 12, 2011
In 2007 Kennedys was in the process of consolidating down from three offices in the UK to a larger central office, but had very little 'downtime' in which to do a desktop migration. It was then that it chose Automation Manager from RES Software to provide task automation, resource provisioning and service orchestration for desktops, helping Kennedys to quickly configure individual desktops or groups of desktops. Read More>>

The virtual reality of VDI
Publication: Channelweb.co.uk
Date: Dec 7, 2011
Desktop virtualization has been repeatedly tipped for take-off by vendors, distributors and analysts for the past several years. But, for some VARs, it is proving a difficult nut to crack. Grant Tiller, senior product manager at user virtualization vendor RES Software, claims to have seen several proofs-of-concept abandoned because of disappointing end user feedback. Read More>>

RES Launches Service Provider Program for Hosted Virtual Desktops  
Publication: MSPmentor
Date: Nov 7, 2011
RES Software, which develops Windows Desktop management software, has launched a service provider program to assist partners with hosted virtual desktops. The RES Service Provider (RSP) program is for partners that participate in Microsoft’s SPLA (Service Provider License Agreement) program and the Citrix Service Provider (CSP) program. The addition of RES Software allows service providers to track application licenses in real-time and only pay for actual end-user usage, RES claims. Read More>>

Case study: Law firm uses RES Automation Manager to migrate users to Windows 7
Publication: ComputerWeekly.com
Date: Nov 7, 2011
Law firm Kennedys is using RES Automation Manager to migrate users from Windows XP to Windows 7. The company has over 900 people across the UK and provides specialist legal services for insurance, healthcare, construction, employment, rail, maritime and international trade. Read More>>

Four VDI security concepts for every virtual desktop deployment
Publication: Search Security
Date: Nov 7, 2011
It is no surprise that virtual security lags behind VDI adoption. According to a worldwide survey conducted earlier in 2011 by Trend Micro, 67% of enterprises when asked, “How long has your organization been using VDI?” replied they have been doing so for fewer than two years, with 9% having more than four years of VDI experience. For security teams, best practices for virtual environments are still evolving, and the opportunities to improve on existing security models are yet to be widely adopted. Read More>>

RES Software Launches Service Provider Program to Enable Personalization and Automation in Hosted Virtual Desktops-as-a-Service Models
Publication: IT Briefing
Date: Nov 3, 2011
RES Software the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, today announced the RES Software Service Provider (RSP) program, allowing qualified service providers to offer an improved Windows experience to their customers with RES Workspace Manager and RES Automation Manager in their hosted environments. Read More>>

RES Software launches Service Provider Program
Publication: eChannelLine
Date: Nov 3, 2011
RES Software has announced the RES Software Service Provider (RSP) program, allowing qualified service providers to offer an improved Windows experience to their customers with RES Workspace Manager and RES Automation Manager in their hosted environments. Read More>>

Virtualisation turns PCs into personal clouds
Publication: The Register
Date: Nov 2, 2011
If IT managers had had it their way decades ago, we would have never been allowed our own personal computers. The whole idea of giving end-users their own computing resources runs counter to the philosophy that data processing is a centralised function best left to professionals. PCs took off, and dragged IT departments into the client/server revolution, precisely because of this high-priest attitude. Read More>>

Citrix Synergy Barcelona 2011 – A Review
Publication: Virtualization Practice
Date: Nov 2, 2011
At the Synergy Barcelona 2011 event last week Citrix positioned themselves to deliver on just that. Some impressive cloud announcements gave a long term strategy view. There were a number of additional previews to highlight Citrix’s commitment to appeal to The Business, and not just be about IT departmental solutions. Read More>>

RES Software’s Automation Manager 2012 Cuts Complexity for Dynamic Desktop, Data Center Environments
Publication: Enterprise Systems
Date: Oct 28, 2011
Automation Manager 2012 provides enterprises with centralized management to better automate daily tasks. It offers IT a simple interface for targeting and provisioning multiple resources for dynamic desktop environments. Dynamic Desktop Studio, which includes RES Workspace Manager and the latest version of Automation Manager, improves the Windows experience with simplified management and context aware services supported by a highly automated infrastructure fabric, and a user-provisioned self-service catalog. Read More>>

RES extends Automation Manager to non-Windows platforms
Publication: V3.co.uk
Date: Oct 26, 2011
RES Software has updated its Automation Manager tool with support for non-Windows systems and integration with Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager. Announced today at Citrix Synergy in Barcelona and set to be available by the end of this year, Automation Manager 2012 adds a number of enhancements to the software's existing capabilities for automating everyday IT tasks and applying business rules. Read More>>

RES Software launches Automation Manager 2012
Publication: eChannelLine
Date: Oct 26, 2011
RES Software has announced the addition of RES Automation Manager 2012 to its RES Dynamic Desktop Studio product suite. Automation Manager 2012 provides organizations with centralized management to better automate daily tasks. It offers IT a simple interface for targeting and provisioning multiple resources for dynamic desktop environments. Read More>>

Evaluating user virtualization tools and technologies
Publication: Search Virtual Desktops
Date: Oct 12, 2011
Vendors such as RES Software provide user virtualization products. Much like application virtualization, each of these vendors takes a different approach to profile management/user virtualization. Some, like RES, are complex, far-reaching solutions that give you a high degree of management. Read More>>

Kingston University chucks out PCs in major virtualisation push
Publication: Computer World UK
Date: Oct 11, 2011
Kingston University near London has announced ambitious plans to “prepare for life without the desktop,” virtualising its entire base of PCs, the first major project on this scale in the UK education sector. The university currently supports 7,000 PCs for staff and student use across four campuses and additional satellite offioces, mostly Windows XP systems with around 1,000 staff laptops and 1,000 that dual boot Apple’s OS X. Read More>>

RES adds VARs and channel directors
Publication: ChannelPro
Date: Oct 4, 2011
RES Software has announced it has appointed two new UK partners, and expanded its channel team with two new hires to support demand for its desktop management products in Europe. Read More>>

With virtual desktops, one size does not fit all
Publication: Search Virtual Desktop
Date: Oct 4, 2011
The desktop environment at Kingston University now consists of about 4,000 Terminal Services seats and about 1,500 VDI seats -- RES Software's orchestration suite is used for system automation. Read More>>

RES picks up new staff and partners
Publication: CRN
Date: Oct 4, 2011
Workspace management vendor RES Software has reinforced its commitment to the channel by announcing two new hires and some new VAR signings.The vendor specialises in products that allow organisations to centrally manage their physical and virtual desktop environments, and let users have the same personal desktop settings wherever they log in. Read More>>

Understanding the Hybrid Desktop and the Role of the Workspace
Publication: VMware User Group
Date: Oct 2011
VMware’s end-user computing product portfolio has advanced significantly in recent years. Only five years ago, the company offered only one “real” desktop virtualization product, the highly successful VMware Workstation, but VMware now has several enterprise-class desktop virtualization products, including View, ThinApp and Horizon App Manager. Read More>>

Desktop Virtualization Insights for IT Strategic Planning
Publication: Intel
Date: Sept, 2011
Intel’s IT Manager Survey on Desktop Virtualization: This report describes key findings from a survey of 200 IT professionals that can inform an organization’s desktop virtualization planning. Read More>>

How partners have carried the immixGroup to nearly $1B in revenue
Publication: WashingtonTechnology
Date: Sept 29, 2011
Executives at immixGroup Inc. say they are confident their business plan will enable them to weather any current and future federal contracting constraints. In August the division added the vendor RES Software, whose products and services immixGroup can now sell to the government. Read More>>

Birth of the Hybrid Desktop
Publication: ReadWriteWeb
Date: Sept 23, 2011
In previous incarnations of the virtualized desktop, image updates totally wiped out any personalization the user added - stuff like apps, personalized settings and user data. Hybrid methods let the user keep personalization, since they typically update a base image layer and leave the user layer untouched. Read More>>

RES Software Delivers Hybrid Desktop Infrastructure Planning Capabilities
Publication: Enterprise Systems
Date: Sept 15, 2011
RES BDA is an online, Microsoft Windows Azure-based service that allows desktop administrators to view client infrastructure through an analysis of their user environment. User-context aware, Baseline Desktop Analyzer requires no backend configuration. The reports from Baseline Desktop Analyzer are analyzed through Windows Azure services. Read More>>

5 Hot Virtualization Companies, Under the Covers
Publication: Virtualization Review
Date: Sept 1, 2011
With so many virtualization and cloud vendors fighting for attention, it's inevitable that some will grab more than others. Here are five companies that I think could really benefit from a little time in the limelight. Read More>>

2011 Channel Awards shortlist is out!
Publication: CRN
Date: Aug 30, 2011
After hours of reading hundreds of entries and more hours spent this morning paring down the entries, the judges have decided this year’s shortlist. The quality of entry has really improved this year, making the judges' job very difficult. Read More>>

IT and User: If Roles Were Reversed - Sponsored by: RES Software   
Publication: Brian Madden
Date: Aug 16, 2011
Brian Casselman and Dave Bryant of RES Software present a session at BriForum surrounding IT as a Service. Watch the video to see demos and get a glimpse into what it would be like if IT and end users’ roles were reversed. Read More>>

RES Software Invited to Showcase Technology in Microsoft Partner Solutions Center  
Publication: DABCC
Date: Aug 11, 2011
RES Software, the proven leader in dynamic desktop solutions, has partnered with the Microsoft Partner Solutions Center (MPSC) to deploy a powerful RES Dynamic Desktop Studio demo environment on the Microsoft Redmond Campus. At the MPSC, RES Software will give channel partners, technology partners, and customers hands-on access to RES solutions as they explore technologies to overcome their ongoing desktop challenges. Read More>>

RES Software Grows Windows Management, Virtualization Business  
Publication: MSPmentor
Date: Aug 4, 2011
RES Software, which develops Windows desktop management and virtualization software, is gaining momentum in several target markets. Indeed, the company says license sales over the past year have grown 185 percent in the U.S., U.K., Germany, and Nordics regions. Next up, the company is investing to further accelerate momentum in New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago and Dallas. Read More>>

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