VPN
Bright Data | December 14, 2021
The industry-leading web data platform, Bright Data, announced the release of its new product, BrightVPN. BrightVPN disrupts the traditional VPN market by offering the same features as subscription-based VPNs while remaining 100% free to users. As a result, BrightVPN opens the door to millions of users to enjoy anonymous, secure browsing.
Unlike traditional VPN services, no email or account is needed, so users retain complete anonymity. BrightVPN was designed for everyone - zero technical skills are required; in fact, it takes 40 seconds from downloading BrightVPN to achieve complete anonymity.
True to Bright Data’s mission of making the Web transparent to all, BrightVPN enables users to reach any website, in any country, avoiding regional or other competition-led reasons for blockages. BrightVPN is powered by Bright Data’s extensive infrastructure, which is used by its 10,000+ customers, including Fortune 500 firms.
Users of BrightVPN become part of a larger crowdsourcing network that allows researchers and companies to easily access public web data for multiple purposes. As part of its commitment to transparency, BrightVPN allows its users to see and control which sites are accessed by Bright Data. Most of these are well-known online shopping and academic sites. Users may easily control when they allow their IP address to be used, and even grant or deny access to specific sites.
BrightVPN is an excellent alternative to paid VPNs as it allows users to remain anonymous and protect their IP from being tracked for commercial reasons quickly, easily and for free.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP STRATEGIES
Insight | September 27, 2021
Insight Enterprises, the global systems integrator of Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions™ for organizations of all sizes, today announced that it has added Citrix to its Insight Managed VDI support and managed services portfolio. The addition of Citrix to Insight’s support portfolio for the Connected Workforce means Citrix clients can securely enable employees to work anywhere from any device, while alleviating the expense and time spent by IT managing the day-to-day administration of a virtual environment.
The modernization and migration of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) resources and tools to modern cloud-based platforms such as Microsoft® Azure® and Azure® Virtual Desktop (AVD) significantly reduce upfront infrastructure costs associated with deployment of a VDI solution. Insight Managed VDI for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops offers a modern and cost-effective turnkey approach to the administration and support of new or existing Citrix environments with AVD.
Enhanced management platforms like Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops enable dynamic and rapid scaling of the environment. Clients can quickly adjust resources up or down as needed, reducing cost complexity and allowing improvements in overall performance. Insight Managed VDI allows organizations to refocus internal resources on critical business needs while ensuring the performance of the environment against specific and measurable targets.
“Despite the clear advantages of modern VDI in today’s hybrid workplace, many organizations still struggle to master a long-term strategy for virtual desktop solutions,” said Stephen Moss, senior vice president and general manager, Connected Workforce, Insight. “Insight Managed VDI offers a cost-effective way to support new or existing virtual Citrix settings, simplifying the complexity of maintaining VDI tools while keeping the organization secure at its endpoints. In turn, our clients can shift internal IT resources to more strategic business transformation goals while their employees realize the greater convenience of working in the ways they prefer.”
Insight provides an evaluation of a client’s existing Citrix and Microsoft environments to see what needs optimizing across the Azure tenant. Insight’s Managed VDI for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop takes the challenges out of maintaining a virtualized environment by offering:
Tool and portal management for Azure-hosted Citrix solutions
Image management, including operating system and application updates, and deployment of virtual machines
Licensing for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops instance
Implementation of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops instance with AVD
Expert ongoing administration of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and AVD environment
24/7 admin-to-admin support of the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and AVD environment
Automated processes and regular reporting, service reviews and roadmap development
Citrix joins a rapidly expanding list of VDI technologies for which Insight offers expert operational oversight. Clients can outsource a wide range of managed endpoint, security, workplace and lifecycle services, in order to offload day-to-day management of end-user support, fill skills gaps, expedite issue resolution and reduce the risk of system downtime.
“Today’s workers require the ability to seamlessly and securely access work applications and productivity platforms no matter where or how they are working,” said Mike Fouts, vice president, Americas Partner Sales and Services, Citrix. “With Managed VDI for Citrix, Insight can help its customers deliver it and empower their people to perform at their best.”
AboutInsight Enterprises
Every business is a technology business. Insight Enterprises Inc. empowers organizations of all sizes with Insight Intelligent Technology Solutions and services to maximize the business value of IT. As a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of Digital Innovation, Cloud + Data Center Transformation and Connected Workforce solutions and services, we help clients successfully manage their IT today while transforming for tomorrow. From IT strategy and design to implementation, management and supply chain optimization, our 11,000+ teammates help clients innovate and elevate their operations to run business smarter.
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VPN
WireGuard | January 25, 2021
In the wake of being perhaps the most requested features for pfSense, Netgate has declared that WireGuard uphold is going to the famous open source programming for firewalls, VPNs and switches.
The advancement of a portion occupant usage of the new VPN convention for FreeBSD and pfSense has been underway for longer than a year. WireGuard was focused on FreeBSD back in November of a year ago and the convention would now be able to be saw in pfSense Community Edition (CE) 2.5.0.
Clients hoping to exploit the speed and protection benefits offered by WireGuard can download the source code from the pfSense public code vault and twofold pictures are likewise accessible for those following the 2.5.0 improvement branch update from the pfSense GUI.
Netgate additionally declared that pfSense is rebranding pfSense Factory Edition (FE) to pfSense Plus while PfSense CE will stay all things considered however. PfSense FE right now delivers with true equipment from Netgate/pfSense and is likewise accessible in cloud occasions.
As indicated by another blog entry from Netgate, while pfSense FE and pfSense CE have been firmly related for quite a while, the principle manners by which they vary are in help for extra equipment stages (Arm), uphold for Cloud Service Provider (CSP) stages (AWS and Azure) and extra design wizards.
The principal arrival of pfSense Plus (21.02) will be made accessible to all Netgate clients and it will come introduced on the entirety of the organization's machines and all new CSP accomplice commercial center cases.
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