White Papers

White papers provide valuable information and can help you make important business decisions. The latest white papers from RES Software are therefore downloadable free of charge by clicking on the links below.

  • IT departments today are finding themselves squarely at the epicenter of healthcare compliance scrutiny. One of the many regulations to which they must adhere is “meaningful use,” which ties financial incentives to usage of electronic health records as part of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program. Now, with meaningful use deadlines fast approaching and concerns about compliance reaching the highest levels of healthcare organizations, IT professionals are finally being invited to step out of the basement and into the boardroom. Download the white paper for your Five Steps to Meaningful Use with Workspace Virtualization.

  • Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) users will find that RES Software Dynamic Desktop Studio provides unique options to streamline the configuration of virtualized applications and the users overall workspace. RES Workspace Manager is App-V aware and integrates with virtualized applications. Learn more about this “better together” strategy utilizing RES Dynamic Desktop Studio and Virtual Desktop Extender with Microsoft® App-V.

  • This paper describes the concepts of Desktop Transformation and how Desktop Transformation technology can help organizations to progress to managed User Workspaces without having a negative impact on user productivity.

  • In the current versatile user community, a user is no longer bound to any single device. Although assets still need to be kept secure, the need arises for a user-centric security approach, where security rules are aligned with the use of those assets.

  • This white paper discusses migration to Windows 7, specifically steps and elements you need to be aware of about end-user settings. Migrating to Windows 7 might seem straightforward; however, when it comes to end-user settings, there are a few items you need to carefully consider to allow for a successful migration without disrupting end-user productivity.

  • This White Paper provides a brief description of User Workspace Management and its critical importance to desktop virtualization deployments.

  • This Intel-issued whitepaper highlights the value add of RES Virtual Desktop Extender when dealing with the challenges of deploying server-based VDI. Although there is a time and place for VDI in the enterprise, a wholesale move to this kind of environment doesn't make sense for all environments because it ignores increasingly capable rich endpoints. Intel’s support of the "Intelligent Client" supports a hybrid approach to desktop virtualization that RES Software recognizes as an emerging trend in today's desktop environments. RES solutions aim to help enterprises as they manage hybrid desktops.

  • As organizations seek to realize the benefits of a next-generation virtualized endpoint environment, Citrix and RES Software provide a complete solution for a staged, managed migration that allows optimal flexibility while providing value every step of the way. The Citrix Desktop Transformation Model provides a proven approach for developing the ideal roadmap. RES Workspace Manager® helps IT execute the transformation smoothly and seamlessly, then manage and secure the resulting environment for the best outcome for IT, users, and the business. In this whitepaper you’ll learn where to start your desktop transformation and how to make it ultimately successful.

  • As virtualization technology reshapes endpoint architectures, new trends like workshifting, consumerization, and cloud computing pose new management and security challenges for IT. To support more diverse user types in more places on a wider range of devices, IT needs to be able to provide a virtual desktop which remains consistent and personalized while maintaining control and security over this hybrid desktop as user contexts change. In this whitepaper you’ll learn how the combination of Citrix and RES Software can aid IT pros in managing and securing hybrid virtual environments.

  • Active Directory is the security foundation by which most IT organizations control access to resources and enforce security across the Windows environment. The Group Policy Objects (GPOs) component of Active Directory controls the preferences and settings of applications and the operating system from a central repository, made up by the Active Directory domain controller system. However, there are limitations to Active Directory and GPOs. RES Software helps expand the capabilities of Active Directory and GPOs to better address the needs of the modern enterprise.

  • Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) enhances Windows management inside of a virtualized or physical container across a wide array of desktops and laptops. However, as we said in the introduction, there is no ―silver bullet that solves all management issues in any one system. RES Software is changing what it means to manage a user's workspace and complements the MDOP technology suite. The combination of the two technologies provides a uniform approach to an evolved management paradigm, stretching across both physical and virtualized Windows instances; further leveraging and expanding the current MDOP investment.

  • Microsoft RDS (formerly known as Terminal Services), allows a single server and operating system instance to service multiple remote desktop and application executions across multiple user sessions while projecting the screen to rich, thin or slim clients through the network to any location. This allows IT to centralize the application and desktop execution across farms of servers in the data center where they can be more easily managed while providing an exponential increase in performance. However, the RDS environment and its utility nature create high levels of complexity in administration and execution. RES Software not only addresses these issues, but adds additional capabilities which enable the utility vision of this infrastructure.

  • SCCM delivers applications and operating systems including key point–in–time configurations across a large and geographically diverse environment. However, its control is focused around the application and OS configuration at initial implementation time and not the user’s profile, settings, data and state. RES Workspace Manager provides the administrator with the capability to create different configurations for an application or Operating System instance based on the context of the user or system.

  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) centralizes the user’s desktops from the distributed client environment into the datacenter and projects the screen to rich, thin or slim clients across the network to any location. In a VDI environment, virtual desktops can either be presented in a dedicated, one-to-one desktop–to–user relationship or a one-to-many relationship, where a single image acts as the foundation for a group of users with common traits (i.e. task workers). This approach to computing is designed to move an organization to a utility computing model where user agility is highly desired. However, the VDI environment and its utility nature create high levels of complexity in administration and execution. RES Software not only addresses these issues, but adds additional capabilities which enable the utility vision of this infrastructure.