SECURITY
Netrix | January 13, 2022
Netrix, LLC, a leading provider of managed and professional IT and cybersecurity solutions, announced the appointment of Russell P. Reeder as Chief Executive Officer of Netrix. Reeder, who previously served as Executive Chairman of Netrix’s Board of Directors, joins from Infrascale, a cloud-based data protection, backup and disaster recovery solution provider, where he has been CEO since 2019.
Reeder succeeds Rob Dang, who joined Netrix in 2012 and was named CEO following its acquisition by affiliates of OceanSound Partners, LP in July 2020. Dang will continue to serve on the Board of Directors and has been appointed Vice Chairman where he will actively focus on strategic acquisitions, product strategy, and supporting key customer and partner relationships.
It has been an honor to lead the talented team at Netrix. As the Company continues to mature, I felt that the time for a transition was right. Russ’s skills are well-suited for the opportunities ahead, particularly his experience delivering growth and a scalable operational framework, which will be crucial as we expand our global delivery footprint, enhance our service offerings, and provide differentiated IT solutions to our customers. I am looking forward to continuing my active involvement in strategic growth initiatives, partnering with Russ, OceanSound, and our management team, and supporting our talented team of associates and our customers and partners.”
Rob Dang, Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of Netrix
“Since the firm’s founding, I have been exploring opportunities to work with the OceanSound team as we are strongly aligned around core principles, specifically a shared focus on value creation achieved via revenue growth and operational excellence. I was thrilled to join the Board of Directors at Netrix following OceanSound’s investment and have been impressed by the culture of growth and unwavering focus on customers I have experienced,” commented Reeder. “Our portfolio of solutions positions Netrix in a vast and high-growth market, and I look forward to partnering with Rob, OceanSound, the senior leadership, and our team of nearly 800 personnel worldwide. The combination of our technology capabilities and partnership approach to customer relationships will continue to enhance our market position and advance us toward our goal of becoming the leading provider of mission-critical IT solutions for the mid-market.”
“I’ve known and worked with Russ for nearly a decade since GoDaddy acquired Media Temple – his track record overseeing transformational growth and operational excellence in the enterprise IT sector positions him for success as the new CEO of Netrix. We are thrilled to have a proven leader of his caliber take the helm as we continue executing on our growth and value creation strategy,” said Ted Coons, Co-Founder and Partner at OceanSound. “Over the last decade, Rob has shepherded the transformation of Netrix from a regional value-added reseller into a leading provider of mission-critical IT solutions with a global footprint. His customer-centric approach and the growth-oriented culture he has fostered are core to what drew us to Netrix. We look forward to the continued partnership as he transitions into his new role as Vice Chairman,” added David Stein, Principal at OceanSound.
Prior to Infrascale, Reeder served as President and CEO of the U.S. business of OVHcloud, a French cloud computing company, where he oversaw the acquisition and integration of vCloud Air from VMware in 2017. Previously, Reeder served on the Executive Leadership Team at GoDaddy, following the acquisition of Media Temple, where he served as President and COO, by GoDaddy in 2013. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Science Center of Northern Virginia and the Advisory Board at Virtru. Reeder graduated with a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from James Madison University where he currently serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Council for the Madison Center for Civic Engagement. He is active in the Young Presidents’ Organization and participated in the Harvard Business School President’s Program in Leadership.
About Netrix, LLC
Netrix is a leading provider of cloud, security, collaboration, ITSM and application development solutions. Through both proprietary and managed solutions leveraging leading third-party tools, Netrix addresses the most mission-critical IT needs of midsize and enterprise businesses.
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VMWARE
Atos | May 05, 2022
Atos and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced an extension of the companies’ strategic partnership by working to deliver an integrated set of capabilities to help speed up the development of “Data Spaces”. Data Spaces are platforms that allow for greater exchange, collaboration, and monetization of data between organizations or industries, independently of the underlying infrastructure, whilst enabling data sovereignty and interoperability.
With the VMware and Atos collaboration effort on Data Space development, the companies plan to deliver an integrated set of capabilities that help enable data and industry applications to be used and shared more strategically to boost national and regional digital economies. The expanded collaboration will deliver capabilities aligned to the Gaia-X architecture and serve as a key enabler and booster of the Gaia-X initiative, which seeks to accelerate the exchange of data through new digital platforms that comply with common rules.
Atos and VMware plan to combine VMware’s multi-cloud and app modernization capabilities with the Atos cloud, as well as cybersecurity expertise and technology integration from Atos. The capabilities are designed to provide businesses and industries with the key building blocks to rapidly design, develop, deploy, better secure, and manage Data Spaces that are compliant with jurisdictional data governance requirements. Organizations can also utilize and monetize existing data to create machine learning and artificial intelligence services, and enable new industry-specific services for:
Healthcare and life sciences – facilitating the merge and exchange of health data to accelerate research and clinical trials.
Financial services – developing cross-company and cross-border services and collaboration ecosystems, for example with a sustainable finance platform to comply with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) requirements.
Utilities – optimizing the electric networks for the charging of electric vehicles.
“With a comprehensive set of data space capabilities from VMware and Atos, organizations will gain access to a viable and rapid way to more securely share, manage and monetize their data,” said Laurent Allard, Head of Sovereign Cloud EMEA, VMware. “Today’s world is multi-cloud. Aligned to the principles of Gaia-X, the suite of capabilities will be designed to deliver the interoperability, reversibility and security required for European businesses and industries to create value from data and drive their digital ambitions faster.”
“VMware and Atos are long-term partners and share a commitment to helping organizations drive value from data,” said Frédéric Malicki, CTO, Southern Europe, Atos. “By supporting the acceleration of Data Space development and data sovereignty with the capabilities from VMware and Atos, we expect to give customers the tools to drive value not just from their own data, but also from federated data, collaboratively with partners and peers. Organizations can transform existing data into new services that, for example, could help farmers better predict the weather or human health organizations improve living conditions for the elderly with automated energy management.”
About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 111,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 11 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end solutions for all industries in 71 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos is an SE (Societas Europaea), listed on Euronext Paris and included in the CAC 40 ESG and Next 20 indexes. The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.
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VIRTUAL DESKTOP TOOLS
Stratodesk | June 09, 2022
Stratodesk, the leading global EUC innovator of endpoint OS software, today announced the general availability of its latest software evolution, Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4. Answering top challenges facing enterprises in a new hybrid work world, Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 increases the adoptability and useability of high performance, hybrid cloud workspaces. Stratodesk’s newest operating system accomplishes this through the addition of capabilities enabling simpler end-user experiences, advanced, high resolution protocols, and integration of the latest Cloud and VDI solution provider software releases.
"According to our primary research, 81% of technology-based workers perform at least some job tasks outside of the physical office," noted Steve Brasen, Research Director at Enterprise Management Associates. "Most legacy technologies are not equipped to securely deliver IT services to remote users without impeding their productivity. Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 works with existing IT infrastructures to create consistent user experiences, and the newly released self-service capabilities enables broad deployment with ease."
Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 Addresses Challenges Facing IT by Enabling Hybrid Work
In 2022, ensuring the effectiveness of secure, high performance, hybrid cloud workspaces is a key challenge facing IT leaders. Businesses continue to seek new and better ways to provide their workers with workplace flexibility. In fact, a recent study found 100% of IT leaders polled desired a hybrid work model. To achieve this without making sacrifices in productivity, enterprises require a more powerful, more adoptable, and easier to use endpoint OS than any previously available on the market.
Stratodesk addresses this need with a new evolution of Stratodesk NoTouch software. Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 boasts critical features to enable the new, secure hybrid work world. It also includes the biggest graphical user interface (GUI) update since the last major update released in 2021 – a new first-time installation wizard and sleek new design elements that streamline end user experience. Together these improvements will reduce helpdesk requests for large enterprises by making the endpoint easier to set up and interact within remote work scenarios.
A Simpler Out-of-the-Box Experience for Stratodesk NoTouch OS Enabling Customers to be Self Intuitive
Updates made to the GUI will deliver a simpler out-of-the-box experience of Stratodesk NoTouch OS. First time Stratodesk NoTouch admins remain in full control, all while end users can take a simpler self-serve approach. The updated installation process will guide system admins step-by-step through a process that will make endpoint deployment across thousands of devices easier – delivering on Stratodesk’s mission to ease adoptability for enterprise customers.
New graphical elements include several additional icons to compliment the minimalistic design of Stratodesk NoTouch OS . An ideal alternative to the traditional “hotkey” approach, these icons are an easy and intuitive way for remote workers to manage their networks, enable multi-monitor display, and access their sound settings.
Natively Cloud Friendly Updated Clients to Enable Cloud Workspaces are Included
Ultimately, updates made to the Stratodesk NoTouch OS out-of-the-box experience will embolden Cloud and traditional VDI workspaces.
“In 2022, we expect to see more businesses look to the cloud to enable hybrid work,” says Stratodesk Strategic Alliances VP Ricardo Antuna. “Regardless of the physical locations of endpoints, Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 is designed to ease challenges in scaling hybrid deployments and the adoptability of hybrid workspaces.”
To achieve easier adoptability and scalability for secure cloud workspaces, Stratodesk maintains its historic first day deployment for brand new Linux clients as they become available from VDI/Cloud solution providers including Citrix, Microsoft, Nutanix and VMware. Stratodesk NoTouch OS and NoTouch Center are fully cloud native, and let customers choose any on premises or cloud-based solution to empower their hybrid workspace deployments.
“Adoptability in a hybrid work world is a greater necessity than ever before,” says Stratodesk founder and CEO, Emanuel Pirker. “By ushering in a new evolution of Stratodesk software, we are effectively saying ‘we’re here for it’. Hybrid work has never been so compelling an offering, enabling everything from retaining better talent, increased productivity, all while providing a better work-life balance. Of course, making the user experience for remote workers as seamless as possible is vital to the productivity of any organization. Updates made to Stratodesk NoTouch OS reflect changes in the modern work world as we all jointly seek a new and better way for hybrid work.”
Furthering the advancement of scalability in hybrid work deployments are the latest updates to Stratodesk Cloud Xtension. Stratodesk has enhanced the already extensive capabilities of Stratodesk Cloud Xtension, effectively improving scalability performance for hybrid cloud deployments.
Stratodesk NoTouch OS is the First EUC Endpoint Software Support to Support Mechdyne TGX
Adding to its history of firsts, Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 includes the availability of Leostream within Stratodesk NoTouch OS. Available natively, Stratodesk NoTouch OS is the first endpoint OS to enable Mechdyne TGX via Leostream, natively, allowing for powerful high powered graphical content for remote endpoints. Advanced use cases benefiting from these enhancements range from media and entertainment to oil and gas, and the highly demanding (from a graphics perspective) world of editing production houses.
A US government defense contractor initially seeking a PCoIP solution capable of handling high resolution content, opted for Mechdyne TGX and its inclusion within Leostream and are working closely with Stratodesk to enable this solution within their Cloud deployment.
“By partnering with Stratodesk, we are able to provide a seamless experience to workers around the world,” says Karen Gondoly, Leostream CEO. “Stratodesk customers can take advantage of connecting to their virtual and cloud desktops via their preferred display protocol. Our joint relationship with Mechdyne also makes it possible to leverage the powerful TGX protocol for high end resolution.”
“By integrating with Stratodesk and Leostream, we are able to deliver the world’s first iteration of a Thin Client OS that includes our powerful TGX protocol for high end graphics displays,” said Cathy Lascara, VP of Software at Mechdyne. “TGX is ideal for demanding scenarios in energy, engineering, entertainment and loves high resolution and multi-monitor - making it ideal for the enterprise.”
Compressed Imaging Makes Stratodesk NoTouch OS Faster than Ever Before
Additionally, Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 uses a new compression technique that leads to improved performance, making Stratodesk NoTouch OS faster than ever before. This advanced speed allows IT to maximize the time saving benefits they have already come to expect from imaging and deploying new devices with Stratodesk NoTouch OS across entire deployments, and thousands of endpoints.
Customers wanting a deeper look into what Stratodesk NoTouch OS 3.4 offers can access via their Customer Portal the release notes for a full rundown of new features. Business and IT leaders new to Stratodesk NoTouch can schedule a 20 minute demo of our software.
“By making it easier than ever before for end users to self-service within Stratodesk NoTouch OS, our customers have another unique selling point from the EUC innovator,” says Sonia St. Charles, CEO of Davenport Group. “Additionally, as a Dell Technologies Titanium Partner, we are excited for what these latest updates mean for our customers leveraging new and existing Dell PCs, laptops, and thin clients – enabling them to be repurposed with the latest clients from VDI/Cloud vendors to look and feel like new.”
“We have a shared mission to deliver secure hybrid cloud workspaces to workers everywhere and our partnership with Stratodesk brings Stratodesk NoTouch OS high security, and adoptability to our DX Series thin client solutions,” says Sean Copeland, Executive Vice President at Amulet Hotkey. “Our clients are compact and feature rich, providing advanced features that supports PCoIP, Blast, and other remote display protocols, for high end use cases in global enterprise, defense, and government markets.”
About Stratodesk
Founded in 2010, Stratodesk is the leading global EUC innovator of endpoint OS software. Stratodesk’s agile and customer-centric, Linux-based managed OS software, Stratodesk NoTouch, is defining end user computing with its freedom to transform any device into a cloud-ready and highly secure endpoint, enabling companies to cost-effectively manage their unified VDI endpoint deployments and secure digital perimeters. Stratodesk’s software works seamlessly across all x64, x86 and ARM/Raspberry Pi based hardware products, increases endpoint security, and simplifies user experience. Today, with nearly one million licenses deployed globally across multiple industries, Stratodesk prides itself on its authenticity and dedication to delivering the most innovative software solution to its customers.
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VMware | March 23, 2022
Based on its recent analysis of the Global Blockchain Services space, Frost & Sullivan recognizes VMware with the 2022 Customer Value Leadership Award for creating an enterprise grade-blockchain that allows companies to deploy multi-party applications with a range of popular smart contract languages. VMware is a leading multi-cloud and application technology provider with over 20 years on the market, enabling digital innovation and improving business performance with best-in-class solutions.
VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. The company works to harness the next wave of innovation and help solve customers' toughest challenges through disruptive technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, edge computing, and machine learning.
"Creating a private permissioned blockchain based on Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication, VMware's architecture facilitates enterprises to run distributed, multi-party applications in multiple smart contract languages, with network trust and resilience built in," said Nick J. Baugh, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "VMware Blockchain thus equips enterprises with a robust and highly efficient platform that does not suffer the main drawbacks of alternative blockchain models. Compared to other blockchain models, such as proof-of-work mechanism, VMware's approach is highly efficient and sustains massive numbers of nodes and data transactions."
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that demonstrates excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers, focusing on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. The award recognizes VMware's unique focus on augmenting its customers' value, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and customer base expansion.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.
About Frost & Sullivan
For six decades, Frost & Sullivan has been world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success.
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