Cloud Computing Use Cases

whitePaper | May 25, 2022

The number of financial institutions exploring enterprise blockchain networks to address multiple market forces is growing. Based on VMware customers and supported by The Value Exchange’s 2021 research on 150 financial institutions, the adoption of blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) is already underway.

whitePaper | December 4, 2022

IT spending remains buoyant, as the momentum for digital transformation initiatives continues to accelerate. New technologies are giving organizations a boost in operational efficiency, improving customer outreach, and enabling better collaboration between business users. In ESG’s annual research survey of senior IT decision makers, 26% of respondents described their organization’s digital transformation initiatives as mature, and a further 47% said they were currently implementing and executing various digital transformation initiatives. Six years ago, these percentages were 13% and 38% respectively, showing just how far digital transformation has come.

whitePaper | June 7, 2022

Cloud environments change fundamental assumptions in how to perform threat detection and response. The highly dynamic inventory of cloud workloads means systems come and go in seconds. When system configuration errors are introduced during a build, they can be exacerbated and amplified when automation replicates the errors across many workloads. Shared responsibility with the cloud service provider (CSP) creates potential threat detection gaps in the attack lifecycle.

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is unleashing fundamental innovation in the way organizations buy, deploy, and operate network infrastructures. By leveraging open standards and commodity hardware, NFV delivers cost savings, enhanced flexibility, improved performance, and more. However, without the right safeguards, organizations can also see their vulnerabilities increase when they move to a Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) architecture. This white paper offers a detailed look at the unique security implications of adopting NFV approaches, and it provides a number of best practices to employ to ensure sensitive data and transmissions remain secure in these environments.

whitePaper | December 6, 2022

By now, everyone has heard the terms desktop virtualization and VDI It seems like we’ve been pounded with marketing propaganda about these technologies from companies like VMware, Citrix® and Microsoft® since 2006. But if desktop virtualization is so good, why are most of the world’s desktops still “old-style” physical desktops and laptops?

whitePaper | May 3, 2022

These tests were run to determine how HP printers and their associated printer drivers performed using the standard printer and printer-related features tests that Citrix uses to test its Virtual Apps server and client software.