Healthcare PC Virtualization

There's a complimentary webinar sponsored by Intel coming up on the topic of PC Virtualization in Healthcare. Here are the details:

A Smarter Approach to Healthcare PC Virtualization

Tuesday, May 22, 2012
2:00 pm ET/11:00 am PT

There's been a lot of talk of PCs going the way of the woolly mammoth (Post PC era anyone?). With cloud computing, wireless broadband and distributed workforces, are organizations moving to a new era of tablets and thin clients as the new survival tools? The question is hotly debated and intertwined with three equally hot trends: PC virtualization, cloud computing, and the consumerization of IT.

Join IT experts from Intel and Virtual Computer for a webinar with live Q&A to learn about what's really happening with PCs, thin-clients, and tablets.

During this webinar, you’ll learn:

• Key metrics and healthcare trends on tablets, thin clients and PCs
• Best use cases for PCs, thin-clients, and tablets in healthcare
• How Intelligent Desktop Virtualization (IDV) transforms PCs
• Economics and performance of VDI vs. IDV

Register here.

Learn about the role of virtual desktop solutions in health IT

Here is an upcoming complimentary webinar:

Delivering the Future of Healthcare: Maintain Compliance, Improve Efficiency and Continuity of Care...Virtually Anywhere

Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011 I Time: 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific I Duration: 1 Hour

The role of IT is becoming increasingly pivotal in how healthcare organizations deliver products and services. Healthcare providers must not only achieve HIPAA compliance and meaningful use while still providing world class care and services, they must also wrestle with how to reinvent themselves in order to deliver on accountable care in the near future.

MIT Security Expert Shares Cloud & Virtualization Solutions

Here is a Free, Interactive Webinar about Cloud & Virtualization:

From Desktops to Devices: Securely Navigating Through the Cloud

Digital security expert and MIT research fellow Michael Schrage shares solutions to increase security leveraging virtualization and the cloud

Thursday, September 29, 2011
12:00 - 1:00 PM U.S./Canadian Eastern

The tension between information security and productivity has never been greater. To operate at peak performance and competitiveness, organizations need workers to be able to access resources in more places and ways than ever before. Traditional security strategies are being pushed to their breaking point by today's proliferation of work locations, types of workers, devices, and access methods.

LogMeIn Ignition updated for iOS (iPad, iPhone)

LogMeIn Ignition has received an update to version 2.0.264 on the Apple iPad and iPhone. Don't forget that you can win a free copy of LogMeIn Ignition here.

Here's a recent press release about the update:

New Version of LogMeIn Ignition Lets Users View, Transfer and Save Files Between Their iPads, PCs and Macs

LogMeIn Introduces First App to Combine Remote Control and File Management for iPad 2, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch

WOBURN, Mass., March 18, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Apple iOS device owners can use their iPad 2, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch to view, transfer and save files from their PCs and Macs with the newest update to LogMeIn Ignition, the top-grossing third-party iPad app of 2010.

The newest version from LogMeIn, Inc. (Nasdaq:LOGM) adds file functions to Ignition's remote control capabilities. It is the first iOS app to combine remote control with file management. The app is available now in the iTunes App Store and as a free update to current users.

Use VMware Virtualization Software to run your legacy applications

Are you running Windows Vista or Windows 7? Maybe you're run into the problem where you can't run your legacy applications. Or, maybe your old peripheral (e.g., printer, scanner, etc.) isn't working. Fortunately, VMware allows you to run a virtual Windows XP machine on your computer that's running Vista or 7. This way, you can still run those legacy applications and peripherals. That's what I'm doing. I have an old HP LaserJet printer that doesn't work on Windows 7. It's a good printer, so I don't want to throw it away. I'm now printing to that printer using a virtual Windows XP machine.

VMware gives you much more flexibility over the "Windows XP mode" feature that is built into Windows 7.

Parallels Mobile - run Windows 7 (virtual machine) on your iPad

Here's a video showing an iPad running Windows 7 (through a Parallels Virtual Machine mobile app):

Learn about desktop virtualization

Here's an interesting opportunity to learn about desktop virtualization from Citrix and Microsoft.

Citrix and Microsoft are coming to Philadelphia and Boston to give you all the answers you need on desktop virtualization.

In this half-day seminar you will learn how to:

• Simplify your Windows 7 migration
• Save time and cost in desktop refresh
• Streamline desktop support
• Improve data security

Register here:

Philadelphia, PA

8/24/2010

Boston, MA

8/26/2010

*Attend and win...  HP Mini 210 Netbook * 1 netbook will be raffled in each city

HP Enhances Client Virtualization Offerings

HP Enhances Client Virtualization Offerings to Improve Security and Usability, Reduce Complexity

SAN FRANCISCO, May 12, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- HP today expanded its client virtualization offerings for businesses to help reduce the costs and complexity of client virtualization while improving the user experience.

The new offerings, announced at Citrix Synergy 2010, include:

-- The HP 4320t Mobile Thin Client is designed to meet the security and reliability needs of remote and mobile workers.

-- HP's desk-based thin client line now features expanded multimedia capabilities.

-- HP has worked with Citrix to develop new virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) reference architectures for XenDesktop and XenServer that help reduce the threat of potential data loss or theft, lower the complexity and cost of desktop management, and provide end-users with the functionality of a stand-alone desktop.

-- The HP Compaq Elite 8000 Business Desktop and HP EliteBook 8440p Notebook PC are the first Citrix Ready platforms expected to support the recently announced Citrix XenClient hypervisor technology. Citrix XenClient support provides the power to deliver the most demanding business applications, while offering the protection of a secure, centrally managed virtual machine for business customers.

Citrix and Wyse allow you to run Windows on your iPad

If you're familiar with the concept of virtual computing, then you'll appreciate this snippet from ZDNet:

Citrix and Wyse have both released virtual desktop applications for the iPad that let people run Windows applications on Apple's tablet. On Friday, Citrix announced the immediate availability of its Receiver virtual office client and GoToMeeting web conferencing client for the iPad. On the same day, thin-client specialist Wyse separately introduced a version of its PocketCloud app for the same device.

Now, what does this mean? It means that you don't need to wait for a Windows-based tablet as long as you know how to set up a remote PC so that you can run a Windows virtual machine on your iPad.  I'm waiting for Citrix to release GoToMyPC for iPad.

Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Have you heard of the term "virtualization software" used in the context of health IT? I'm sure you've heard of cloud computing. Some experts have said that virtualization unlocks cloud computing. Many people still have misconceptions about cloud computing and may even confuse this phrase with virtualization. Grid computing (a form of distributed computing and parallel computing, whereby a 'super and virtual computer' is composed of a cluster of networked, loosely coupled computers acting in concert to perform very large tasks) deals with virtual machines.

Windows XP Mode for Windows 7

One of the nice features within Windows 7 is the ability to run Windows XP. Yes, XP will never die. This operating system will live on forever.

XP Mode is essentially a virtual PC running within Windows 7.

Windows Virtual PC provides the capability to run multiple Windows environments such as Windows XP Mode from your Windows 7 desktop.

To download the Release Candidate of XP Mode, go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx