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Doing the Math Before the Math Does In your VDI Environment

Posted by Val King on Feb 24, 2020 9:52:30 PM

No less than 12 times over the last 18 months we have seen the following VDI disaster strike unsuspecting companies.

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Topics: Research and Strategy, End User Experience, Virtual Desktop (VDI)

Cloud Security Market to Grow to $13.93 Billion by 2024

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jul 17, 2017 10:43:48 PM

 

Cloud security is one of the fastest growing market segments today. The latest report from Grand View Research Inc further accentuates this trend, as it predicts the cloud security market to grow to $13.93 billion by 2024.

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Topics: Security, Cloud and Hosting

Whitehat Virtual CEO on Mitigating Hospital Data and Information Breaches

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Mar 29, 2017 9:47:14 PM

March 29, 2017

 Whitehat Virtual Technologies CEO pens article for Security Technology Executive magazine, Mitigating Hospital Data and Information Breaches discussing cybersecurity in healthcare and how patient safety and patient security can coexist. 

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Topics: Security, Healthcare

Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Virtualization & Mobility Conference Featuring a Healthcare CIO Roundtable - October 7, 2014 Austin, Texas

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 11:36:07 AM

Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Virtualization & Mobility Conference Featuring a Healthcare CIO Roundtable - October 7, 2014 Austin, Texas

Whitehat Virtual Technologies will host their annual Virtualization & Mobility Conference (VMXpo), October 7, 2014 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin, Texas. A Healthcare CIO Roundtable as well as advances in desktop virtualization, cloud, and mobility technology will be featured.

Whitehat Virtual Technologies is a desktop virtualization specialty partner focused on healthcare. In conjunction with Dell Medical, Whitehat has added a whole section targeted at healthcare at their annual Virtualization Conference, culminated by a healthcare CIO roundtable at 3:00pm. Several prominent CIOs will be discussing the key issues today that face healthcare in IT, especially as it pertains to desktop virtualization.

The Healthcare CIO Roundtable will be comprised of, R. Todd Thomas who is the Chief Information Officer for the Austin Radiological Association MSO, LLC (ARA), George Suarez, CIO of CommuniCare Health Centers, Carol Maginn from Dell Information Management Group, and Val King, CIO for Val Verde Regional Medical Center (VVRMC) in Del Rio, TX.

TOPICS to be DISCUSSED:

  •     What are the top 3 issues your IT organization is dealing with?
  •     Is Informatics part of IT or a separate department? How have you been able to successfully coordinate these two departments to improve IT quality or improve care?
  •     What is Its role in your facility to help reach Meaningful Use and assist with physician adoption? What are the challenges you have faced? What has worked for you?
  •     Healthcare projects continue to increase while IT resources are static or being cut, how are you maintaining service levels in this environment?
  •     How are you handling requests from clinics/physician offices to access your electronic medical records? How are you meeting these requests while still meeting your security requirements?
  •     What virtualization technologies are you leveraging in your environment? Server, desktop, application virtualization? What are you doing today, what is on your roadmap?
  •     Where are you on the road to EMR adoption in your facilities? Have you been able to fully leverage EMR capabilities How are you achieving optimal EMR benefits?
  •     How are Revenue cycle management initiatives and ICD-10 requirements impacting your organization?
  •     Are you seeing/how are you meeting requests for deep analytics to help CEO/CFOs get a deeper analysis on the healthcare services you provide?
  •     What Telehealth initiatives are you seeing and how is your organization managing deployment and securing of these resources?
  •     How are smartphones and tablets impacting your IT strategy?
  •     Population health management. The move from "find it, fix it medicine" to population health management is driving the need for new applications, new data, new uses of data, and new levels of integration. Are you seeing any of these initiatives? What impact is this having on IT today?

 

About VMXpo:
Whitehat CEO Val King will kick-off the event at 8:00 am, with nationally recognized Citrix and desktop virtualization expert Douglas A. Brown to deliver the keynote address. Brown’s knowledge of the historical development of desktop virtualization, and his profound insight into the continually evolving direction and emerging technologies of the IT industry, helps attendees to better plot their own course and the course of their company, and to keep on top of the newest technologies in desktop virtualization and mobility. Also adding depth and interest to the event will be a guest appearance by “technology evangelist” Thomas Poppelgaard. Poppelgaard is a subject matter expert on remote graphics, where he helps companies all over the world virtualize 2D/3D graphics in the cloud.

About Whitehat:
Whitehat Virtual Technologies is dedicated to exploring the latest in desktop virtualization, cloud computing, mobility solutions, and managed IT services, serving as a locus point for the virtualization industry in Texas. Whitehat is a desktop virtualization integrator, as well as a managed services provider, providing expert IT consulting services, while helping their clients to develop optimum desktop virtualization environments with the end-user in mind. A solution-oriented company, Whitehat integrates available technology to remove obstacles from the path of efficiency and productivity. Whitehat partners with the world’s leading desktop virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile technology innovators.

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Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Virtualization & Mobility Conference Featuring Citrix Training - October 7, 2014 Austin, Texas

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 11:30:05 AM

Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Virtualization & Mobility Conference Featuring Citrix Training - October 7th, Austin, Texas

Whitehat Virtual Technologies will host their annual Virtualization & Mobility Conference (VMXpo), October 7, 2014 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Austin, Texas. Advances in desktop virtualization, cloud, and mobility technology will be featured, with guest speakers and a who’s-who of leading IT hardware and software companies, along with ample opportunities for business networking.

Whitehat CEO Val King will kick-off the event at 8:00 am, with energetic and entertaining, nationally recognized Citrix and desktop virtualization expert Douglas A. Brown to deliver the keynote address. Brown’s knowledge of the historical development of desktop virtualization, and his profound insight into the continually evolving direction and emerging technologies of the IT industry, helps attendees to better plot their own course and the course of their company, and to keep on top of the newest technologies in desktop virtualization and mobility. Also adding depth and interest to the event will be a guest appearance by “technology evangelist” Thomas Poppelgaard. Poppelgaard is a subject matter expert on remote graphics, where he helps companies all over the world virtualize 2D/3D graphics in the cloud.

The annual Citrix XenMaster Contest provides a format for Citrix technicians to test their skills by repairing challenging Citrix glitches, and to compete for the VMXpo XenMaster trophy, and along with it a $100 gift card prize.

Whitehat partners and sponsors of the event include the most-widely recognized names in desktop virtualization, VDI, networking, graphics, and mobility including Dell, Citrix, NVIDIA, AppSense, Goliath Technologies, RES Software, Atlantis, Microsoft, and VMware.

The knowledge gained through Ken Avram’s years of experience and expertise in Citrix will be shared with all who attend the free Citrix training classes during VMXpo 2014. Avram’s experience includes clients from a wide diversity of industries including oil and gas, automotive, health care, airport services and transportation, banking and finance, manufacturing and warehouse. In addition to five Microsoft certifications, Avram’s 17 Citrix certifications, including Citrix Metaframe Server Administration, Edgesight, Password Manager, Citrix Access Gateway, numerous Citrix XenApp certifications, XexDesktop, XexServer, and more, make him one of the leading technicians/instructors in the industry.

The 2013 VMXpo was well-attended, and succeeded in enriching the knowledge base and skill level of all in attendance. This year, VMXpo promises to provide even more technical expertise, skill development, and practical value for business owners, IT consulting firms, Citrix technicians, and for all those interested in Citrix certification. In the rapidly progressing field of desktop virtualization and mobility, competitive advantage needs to be continuously maintained. VMXpo helps all in attendance to keep pace with technological developments in desktop virtualization and mobility.

About Whitehat
Whitehat Virtual Technologies is dedicated to exploring the latest in desktop virtualization, cloud computing, mobility solutions, and managed IT services, serving as a locus point for the virtualization industry in Texas. Whitehat is a desktop virtualization integrator, as well as a managed services provider, providing expert IT consulting services, while helping their clients to develop optimum desktop virtualization environments with the end-user in mind. A solution-oriented company, Whitehat integrates available technology to remove obstacles from the path of efficiency and productivity. Whitehat partners with the world’s leading desktop virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile technology innovators.

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Whitehat Virtual Technologies Recognized in 2014 CRN Next-Gen 250 List

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 11:22:51 AM

Whitehat Virtual Technologies Recognized in 2014 CRN Next-Gen 250 List

Annual list highlights up-and-coming solution providers embracing new technologies in unique ways. These technologies include: managed services, virtualization, cloud computing and unified communications.

Whitehat Virtual Technologies announced today it has been named to the 2014 CRN Next-Gen 250 list. The annual list honors up-and-coming technology solution providers who have adapted their businesses in unique ways to meet market demands for emerging technologies such as unified communications, managed services, virtualization, and cloud computing. These solution providers, each in business for less than 15 years, have embraced pressing market challenges in ways that clearly distinguish them as today’s trailblazers and tomorrow’s leaders.

Whitehat leads the desktop virtualization, mobility solutions, and cloud computing technology industry with its Virtualization & Mobility EXPO (VMXpo) held annually in Austin, Texas. The expo includes advanced Citrix training for IT technicians and in healthcare IT cloud solutions, among other avenues of expertise.

“IT is undergoing a transformation today, with new technologies, new delivery models and new demands being placed upon the integrators tasked with architecting the technology solutions businesses' need,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company, publisher of CRN. “The CRN Next-Gen 250 recognizes the up-and-comers among the solution provider community who have found innovative ways to address these business challenges and recognizes them as the next generation of leaders in the IT channel. We are pleased to be able to honor the organizations named in this prestigious list, and CRN editors will be following their progress in the years to come.”

A sampling of the Next-Gen 250 list will be featured in the August issue of CRN, the top news source for solution providers and the IT channel, and will be available online at both http://www.crn.com and through the CRN Tech News App for iPad and Windows 8.

About Whitehat Virtual Technologies

Whitehat Virtual Technologies is a virtualization integrator, managed services provider, and IT consulting services firm focused on creating virtualization environments that are built, measured and managed through the eyes of the end user. Whitehat Virtual Technologies is dedicated to exploring the latest in desktop virtualization, cloud computing, mobility solutions, serving as a locus point for the industry in Texas. A solution-oriented company, Whitehat integrates available technology to remove obstacles from the path of efficiency and productivity. Whitehat partners with the world’s leading desktop virtualization, cloud computing and mobile technological innovators.

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The Channel Company is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides communication, recruitment, engagement, enablement, demand deneration and intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at http://www.thechannelcompany.com.

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Whitehat Shares Healthcare Information Technology Expertise at Insight365 Conference

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 11:17:02 AM

Whitehat Shares Healthcare Information Technology Expertise at Insight365 Conference

Whitehat Virtual Technologies is pleased to announce its participation in the healthcare information technology conference - InSight365 that will commence on Tuesday August 5, 2014. Whitehat will share the company’s expertise with thousands who will attend the four day convention.

Whitehat Virtual Technologies provides comprehensive healthcare information technology services to hospitals throughout the country, and is one of the McKcesson Medical Technology Solution partners that will attend the InSight365:2014 Conference to be held at the Indiana Convention Center & Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana August 5-8.

Whitehat is among dozens of McKesson Technology business partners that will convene at the InSight365 Conference, providing a unique educational and networking event. The Conference will also provide an opportunity for learning about McKesson innovations, and for keeping up with the progressive healthcare information technology industry. Whitehat Virtual Technologies shares its McKesson Cloud Delivery, Hospital Managed Services, Citrix Consulting, and its McKesson Planning, Implementation and Remediation expertise at the InSight Conference.

Whitehat understands the challenges hospitals face in implementing healthcare information technology systems. It helps hospitals design, implement, and refine their healthcare information technology systems. Whitehat builds great end user experiences across cloud, managed and mobile platforms. This reduces IT support costs through proactive monitoring and automation, freeing healthcare staff to consume IT services in the context they choose allowing them to be the most productive and removing IT as an obstacle to the patient-provider experience.

The InSight365: 2014 Annual Conference will include key industry speakers and workshops—including full and half-day pre-conference healthcare information technology workshops. It will also provide ample opportunity for building or expanding a robust support network of healthcare information technology industry professionals. The Conference will include “highly relevant” educational sessions and presentations with a focus on emerging, progressive technology innovations in the medical technology industry.

As a solution provider for McKesson Paragon, McKesson Cloud Delivery, Hospital Managed Services, and Citrix systems, Whitehat’s experience, support, and educational contribution to InSight will be significant and will include expertise in implementation and support, product training, user tips, insight into best practices, and a breadth of McKesson technology experience. Productivity of McKesson Technology Solutions users will be enhanced as a result.

Whitehat Virtual Technologies is both a McKesson business partner and healthcare information technology expert. It provides consulting, implementation, and support services for McKesson Technology Solutions. InSight is the largest independent user group for McKesson customers and McKesson software and hardware is used by 70% of the nation’s major hospitals. Whitehat will share its decades of IT experience and healthcare information technology expertise to the thousands who will be in attendance. The Conference promises to raise the bar in healthcare information technology through vigorous networking and educational efforts.

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Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Thomas Poppelgaard to Speak at Graphics Virtualization Event in Texas - April 2014

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 11:06:55 AM

Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Thomas Poppelgaard to Speak at Graphics Virtualization Event in Texas - April 2014

Austin, TX (PRWEB)

Whitehat Virtual Technologies (Austin, TX), a leader of virtualization and GPU integration in Texas announces The Power of Graphics and Virtualization Roadshow. Whitehat joins NVIDIA, Citrix, and Dell for a virtualization conference in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston, Texas scheduled for the week of April 21-25. One of the world’s leading GPU virtualization experts, Thomas Poppelgaard, will speak at the combined event. The schedule is as follows:

  •     April 21st | Austin, TX
  •     April 22nd | San Antonio, TX
  •     April 23rd | Dallas, TX
  •     April 25th | Houston, TX

NVIDIA GRID hardware allows companies to utilize their PC workstations, Windows-based or Apple, as a computer terminal creating virtualized desktops and applications. NVIDIA GRID offloads graphics processing from the CPU to the GPU in a virtualized environment. The result is high-end graphics capabilities for individual or multiple users, each with multiple simultaneous applications. In a virtual environment utilizing NVIDIA GRID hardware, all users are tied in to a common company GPU, with no resultant compromise in the graphics speed or quality.

“Delivering acceptable performance for 3D and other heavy graphics applications has always been a challenge in a Citrix environment. After 5 years of joint development between NVIDIA and Citrix, and using the worldwide collaborative design effort for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner as the driving need, the NVIDA GRID vGPU solution resulted. Since Whitehat Virtual’s core competence is in Citrix application and virtual desktop delivery, it is a natural fit for our three companies to work together for customers that have these application challenges, and we are excited to be a part of it,” states Brad Truman- Vice President of Sales, Whitehat Virtual Technologies.

NVIDIA K1 and K2 Grid cards deliver the most-demanding graphics applications such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks without compromise, allowing up to 30 individual users to run high-end graphics applications simultaneously.

“Whitehat can incorporate NVIDIA K1 and K2 GRID cards into our customer solutions and deliver the most graphically demanding workloads,” contributing to a virtualization environment “that delivers an exceptional, measurable end-user experience. Ultimately, this really rounds out the levels and types of services around virtualization we are able to offer small businesses and enterprises alike,” explains Whitehat.

Worker productivity is positively correlated with speed performance. The NVIDIA solution ultimately leads to IT support cost savings, supporting virtual, as well as physical and mobile platforms. This frees employee’s time and provides greater worker flexibility, enabling end-users to use their own PC or Mac for high-end graphics in a virtual environment using NVIDIA GRID cards, accessing applications from the cloud or any other location. Security, manageability, and flexibility are enhanced, while also allowing Whitehat clients to access Citrix, Microsoft and VMware NVIDIA GRID-enabled software.

As a growing number of employees bring their own devices to the workplace, flexibility and mobility, along with a continuous high performance level for each individual user, are a necessity. With NVIDIA GRID graphics hardware, as many as 30 users can share a single GPU.

Register here for The Power of Graphics and Virtualization.

About Whitehat Virtual Technologies
Whitehat Virtual Technologies is a virtualization integrator, managed services provider, consulting services firm, and partner with leading virtualization hardware and software providers such as Citrix, NVIDIA, Microsoft, VMware, Dell, Appsense, and others.

Please visit the Whitehat Virtual Technologies website http://whitehatvirtual.com for a complete listing of Whitehat partners and scheduled events.

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Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Graphics Virtualization Roadshow in Four Major Texas Cities

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 11:03:08 AM

Whitehat Virtual Technologies Announces Graphics Virtualization Roadshow in Four Major Texas Cities

 Austin, TX (PRWEB)

Application and desktop virtualization specialist, Whitehat Virtual Technologies (Austin, TX), recently announced a four- city roadshow to be offered in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, & Houston during the week of April 21st, 2014. Each session will be held from 8:00AM until noon, and will feature presentations by Thomas Poppelgaard, as well as extensive live demonstrations over the cloud and with local equipment. There will be plenty of opportunity to get hands-on access to the demonstration equipment for personal evaluation. 

Poppelgaard is a technology evangelist and subject matter expert in remote graphics and helping companies virtualize 2D/3D graphics in the cloud for customers around the world. He specializes in how CAD/CAE/CAM/entertainment/media applications can be virtualized with Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft SBC/VDI technologies with NVIDIA and AMD offerings, and has worked extensively with Citrix HDX 3D Pro since 2008. In 2011, he was one of the organizers of a successful event where vendors including Citrix, HP, Autodesk and NVIDIA were gathered to demonstrate HDX 3D Pro to a wider audience, and in 2013, he spoke at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference and on a Webinar at Citrix HQ for global markets.

The roadshow sessions will focus on improving graphics application performance for designers, power users, and knowledge workers. Being remote from the workstation or the applications is no longer an issue, and the Whitehat cloud demonstration will illustrate that. The sessions will also address the return on investment (ROI) aspects of the solution, and show how the cost per user can be brought down dramatically through NVIDIA’s new vGPU sharing capability without sacrificing local or remote performance.

"Virtualizing complex graphic applications has been a major challenge for Citrix since the technologies inception. With Citrix HDX and NVIDIA’s vGPU technology this can be done effectively,” said Val King, CEO of Whitehat Virtual Technologies. “This technology enables quality graphics to all users as well as high-end 3D graphics for professional users who depend on rich graphics capabilities to do their job. Server based computing can now handle a much wider array of end users, extending the opportunity for superior performance to any device, anywhere.”

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Whitehat Virtual Technologies Recognized In 2015 CRN NEXT-GEN 250 LIST

Posted by Tyson Waterman on Jun 30, 2016 10:19:28 AM

Whitehat Virtual Technologies RECOGNIZED IN 2015 CRN NEXT-GEN 250 LIST

Annual List Features Trailblazing Solution Providers Transforming Business with Emerging Technologies

Whitehat Virtual Technologies, announced today it has been recognized in The Channel Company’s exclusive 2015 CRN® Next-Gen 250 list. The annual list honors forward-thinking technology solution providers who have transformed their business by breaking into emerging technologies such as cloud computing, unified communications, virtualization, mobility, business analytics and business intelligence. These solution providers, each in business for less than 20 years, have adapted to an evolving marketplace with precision, clearly identifying themselves as the leaders of the future.

Whitehat is a desktop virtualization integrator and managed services provider offering desktop virtualization, Mobile Device Management and Cloud Computing solutions. The goal of Whitehat Virtual Technologies is to create an exceptional end user experience across virtual, physical and mobile platforms, lowering IT support costs for businesses and freeing employees to consume IT services in the context they choose to be the most productive. This effort allows businesses to see and manage the correlation between end user experience and productivity, and to improve profitability and market share as a result.

“As emerging technologies come to market, so do the new delivery models needed to support them. Agile integrators are in demand now more than ever to architect new technology solutions to meet customer needs,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company. “The trailblazing solution providers honored in this year’s CRN Next-Gen 250 list continue to innovate and evolve to meet market demands and have clearly established themselves as the next generation of leadership in the IT channel. We congratulate the honorees named to this exclusive list for their achievements and look forward to following them in the future to see what they have in store.”

A sampling of the Next-Gen 250 list will be featured in the August issue of CRN and online at both http://www.crn.com and through the CRN Tech News App for iPad and Windows 8.

Whitehat Virtual Technologies RECOGNIZED IN CRN NEXT-GEN 250 LIST

About Whitehat
Whitehat Virtual Technologies is dedicated to exploring the latest in desktop virtualization, cloud computing, mobility solutions, and managed IT services, serving as a locus point for the virtualization industry in Texas. Whitehat is dedicated to providing expert IT consulting services, while helping their clients develop optimum desktop virtualization environments with the end-user in mind. A solution-oriented company, Whitehat integrates available technology to remove obstacles from the path of efficiency and productivity. Whitehat partners with the world’s leading desktop virtualization, cloud computing, and mobile technology innovators.

About The Channel Company
The Channel Company, with established brands including CRN®, XChange® Events, IPED® and SharedVue®, is the channel community’s trusted authority for growth and innovation. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at http://www.thechannelcompany.com.

The Channel Company, CRN®, XChange® Events, IPED® and SharedVue® are registered trademarks of The Channel Company, LLC. All rights reserved. All other brand names, product names, or service names that appear herein are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

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Kim Sparks
The Channel Company
508.416.1193
ksparks@thechannelcompany.com

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