Ayres brings to ControlUp a vast experience in leading multinational software organizations, successfully executing strong organic and inorganic growth strategies, building groundbreaking leadership teams, executing on strong partnership and expanding internationally. Most recently, Ayres served as CEO of IGEL, where he was instrumental in its acquisition by TA Associates and positioning it as a market leader. Prior to that, Ayres was responsible for the strong growth in category leader AppSense, and further successfully fulfilled positions with MCPc, MTM Technologies and GE Capital IT Solutions.

As the company’s co-founder, Ganot will assume the executive chairman role and lead the ControlUp product strategy efforts, continuing to position ControlUp as a leading DEX platform and further executing the company’s growth strategy. As an essential element of the company’s leadership team, Ganot will continue to pioneer the transformation of the digital employee experience market category that he started more than a decade ago.

“Jed’s proven leadership and success with channel-driven organizations will help us bring our cutting-edge technologies to a global audience of enterprise customers,” stated Asaf Ganot, executive chairman and co-founder of ControlUp. “I am looking forward to partnering with Jed to advance our strategy of delivering the best digital employee experience in the market.”

As CEO, Ayres expects to further expand the ControlUp leadership team and make investments to add global resources in an effort to build the company’s market share through a three-pronged focus on channel engagement, alliance partnerships and enterprise customer adoption.

“From the first line of code that Asaf wrote, the growth potential of ControlUp has been clear to the entire industry,” commented Jed Ayres, CEO of ControlUp. “The explosive market opportunity for an innovative DEX platform, paired with the company’s tremendous depth of resources available to drive global growth, positions ControlUp to become a software powerhouse with a multi-billion valuation potential. As we execute against a huge growth opportunity, I look forward to working with the talented ControlUp team to reach our full potential.”

ControlUp Board Director, and Founder and Chairman of JVP, Erel Margalit, welcomed the appointment and said, “The partnership between Jed’s go-to-market leadership and Asaf’s product vision in the Digital Employee Experience category will allow us to grow ControlUp in a very significant way in the international market and position it as a category leader in the emerging exciting space of DEX. Jed brings a broad experience of creating a vision and implementing it, in both the North American and the international markets. We expect Jed to bring that experience as ControlUp grows to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue in the next few years.”

“Together, Jed and Asaf are a powerful leadership team that will strengthen ControlUp’s position as a category leader,” said Roy Liao, ControlUp board member and principal at K1. “The combination of technological innovation and operational execution will play a pivotal role in expanding the company’s network of channel partners and accelerating customer adoption.”

Ayres assumes the role as ControlUp CEO effective today.

For more information, visit the ControlUp website HERE.

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With over three decades working in industries including software, technology, retail, and fintech, Byal brings a wealth of expertise in driving organic and inorganic profitable growth. He most recently served as CFO for Avetta where he was responsible for integration of recent acquisitions, strengthening and streamlining global treasury, finance & accounting operations, and building out an in-house legal team.  In his role as CFO at Alludo, he is responsible for overseeing the company’s accounting, finance, treasury, and tax operations, as well as pricing strategies, and corporate development.

Byal has been a CFO for more than 25 years and has worked with a diverse range of companies, from early-stage operations to $1 billion global organizations. His impressive track record includes raising over $3 billion in debt and equity financing, leading more than $1 billion in M&A transactions, and managing multiple platform exit transactions.

Christa Quarles, CEO at Alludo said, “We are thrilled to welcome Jeff Byal to the team as our new CFO. When you see Jeff in action, you’re immediately struck by his ability to roll up his sleeves and get things done, all while seeing the bigger picture in a financial world awash with details and complexity. With his more than 30 years of experience and long list of proven successes, he’s the ideal leader to oversee our financial operations as we deliver upon our next phase of growth. I look forward to his insights and contributions as we drive innovation, offer exceptional value to our customers, and continue our impressive track record of M&A.”

“I’m excited to be joining a company whose mission and values align so tightly with my own— creating a culture that’s committed to driving durable and sustainable growth while putting people at the center of everything they do,” said Jeff Byal, CFO at Alludo. “Through my decades as a financial and business leader, I’ve had the opportunity to discover my passion for organizational transformation. I am proud to work with Christa, our investors at KKR, and the entire global Alludo team on our journey to deliver the innovations customers need to reimagine the way people work.”

Alludo is a global technology company helping people work better and live better. It is the company behind globally recognizable brands including Parallels®, Corel®, MindManager®, and WinZip®.

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AMD has a long history of x86 firsts, and the innovation continues in the 4^th Gen AMD EPYC processors with CXL1.1+ memory expansion to help support the demand for ever larger in-memory workload capacity.

“Building on the record-breaking performance of 3^rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, the latest 4^th Gen AMD EPYC processors help our customers achieve better business outcomes faster and address their most ambitious energy efficiency goals. Our new ‘Zen 4’ architecture is optimized for modern workloads and delivers the core density, memory bandwidth and sophisticated security features customers demand,” said Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president, EPYC product management, AMD.

Memory Viewer software from MemVerge represents a new class of application-aware memory tools which adds the capability to see how existing workloads are using their memory. Organizations can then determine the most cost-effective and performant way to expand DDR and CXL memory on new servers with 4^th Gen AMD EPYC processors. Download Memory Viewer free.

Memory Machine Cloud Edition software from MemVerge adds the ability to provide transparent access to a pool of DDR and CXL memory, dynamically placing the hottest data in the fastest tier, and guaranteeing quality of service to the most business-critical workloads running on 4^th Gen AMD EPYC processors.

According to Charles Fan, CEO and co-founder of MemVerge, “4^th Gen AMD EPYC processors and MemVerge software form a solid CXL platform capable of providing memory-intensive applications with transparent access to tiered memory fabrics and advanced memory services.”

MemVerge is a pioneer of Big Memory Computing in the cloud and on CXL for big data that needs to be processed quickly. The company’s Memory Machine product is the industry’s first commercial memory virtualization software, and introduced the world to memory tiering, pooling, and snapshot-based, in-memory data management.

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This latest financing round was led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from the company’s pre-seed lead investor Origin Ventures and brings its total financing to date to $27 million. Hammoq startup has Automated More than a Half Million Resale Product Listings Across a Broad Network of eCommerce Marketplaces Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

A glut of online retail returns and a flourishing market for sustainable fashion upcycling and vintage items has created an exploding reCommerce industry. With this financing round, Hammoq will accelerate development of its AI and machine learning platform to automate marketplace listings and open up channels for reseller financing as well as product sourcing.

“The reCommerce market is exploding, with the fashion resale market alone expected to reach $26 billion in 2022,” said Sid Lunawat, CEO and Co-Founder of Hammoq. “There are an abundance of resale marketplaces supporting this economy. Yet, the largest gap is in the labor required to identify product value and push it to the marketplaces. With rising labor costs, the need for automation in the reCommerce industry continues to grow. Using AI and machine learning, Hammoq has put a major dent in this labor gap, empowering its customers to automate the identification and listing process. Our latest funding will accelerate tech development while supporting our sales and marketing strategies to capitalize on this rising opportunity.”

Goodwill of the San Francisco Bay and Hammoq share a deep commitment to sustainability. Hammoq’s AI technology is helping Goodwill to process more material donations, more quickly to help divert more items from landfill. Donated items are given a second life in Goodwill thrift stores.

Another customer of Hammoq is reseller Flip the World. “Before we brought Hammoq on to handle our listings, I would average around 40-50 listings a week. Listing across platforms is time consuming work and after a full day of sourcing, cleaning, prepping and photographing I found that I was falling asleep in bed trying to get my listings up,” said Chris Hatfield, Owner, Flip the World. “Now with Hammoq, we’ve more than doubled our weekly listings and have gone from a 500-item store to over 2,000 in less than two months. It’s been a game changer for our business. Now we can focus on the most important part of reselling, sourcing the items, rather than the listing.”

Hammoq was co-founded by reCommerce industry veterans Sid Lunawat and Ty Blunt, sustainability advocates who believe the 80 billion resalable items dropped in landfills every year have a viable purpose for prolonged use. After successful stints running a reseller business, Lunawat and Blunt understood that identifying and easily listing products for resale was an acute pain point. To solve this challenge, they developed the Hammoq software platform using AI and machine learning to enable listing at scale. Starting with a simple photo, the platform uses product data to automatically enable listings across dozens of resale marketplaces. Hammoq has listed over 600,000 products for sale and ensures 100% compliance with data listing requirements prior to pushing to the marketplaces.

“Hammoq is uniquely serving the exploding reCommerce industry by applying technology to solve sellers’ largest challenge: intelligent, real-time listings,” said Vignesh Ravikumar, Partner, Sierra Ventures. “Their solution and business model are well aligned with our mission to invest early in emerging technology companies that are moving the needle in key market areas. Their SaaS reCommerce solution is delivering precisely what the rapidly transforming market needs as consumers actively seek ways to buy used products that support sustainability and reuse.”

Hammoq is a company that is reimagining reCommerce, digitizing resale goods and automating online listings so customers can list and sell more. Established in 2021 and based in Phoenix, Hammoq has supported the identification and listing automation process for more than 600,000 items. For resellers, liquidators, thrift and retail organizations, Hammoq enables the resale of returns, lost SKUs, overstocks and other pre-loved goods. Built by resellers for resellers Hammoq’s SaaS platform drives customers’ ability to scale reCommerce, while significantly reducing the time and labor needed to get merchandise online.

Sierra Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Core Enterprise and Next-Gen Technologies. With four decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Global 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world.

Learn more about Hammoq at the website here.

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Deploying Azure Virtual Desktop session hosts to on-premises infrastructure via Nerdio Manager for Enterprise allows organizations to automate hybrid deployment and management. It enables organizations to better meet data residency or governance needs and improve the performance and management of hybrid cloud deployments.

“For a variety of reasons, organizations are currently striving to better manage and automate Azure Virtual Desktop while continuing to leverage their on-premises investments,” said Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and co-founder, Nerdio. “Nearly every deployment, management and optimization task Nerdio Manager can do in Azure can now be automated in an extended on-premises hyperconverged infrastructure environment. This is an incredibly powerful next step in empowering more organizations to benefit from Azure and cloud based virtual desktop infrastructure.”

The new Azure Stack HCI functionality in Nerdio Manager for Enterprise v4.1 allows organizations to:

• Integrate with one or several Azure Stack HCI clusters located in corporate data centers.
• Create, manage, and update hybrid Azure Virtual Desktop host pools with virtual machines (VMs) running on-premises using physical hardware.
• Create, manage, update, and export desktop images to be used for creation of session host VMs.

VMs are automatically created and managed through the Nerdio Manager interface. Session hosts can be multi-session or single session and advanced features like Nerdio’s scripted actions, monitoring, FSLogix, and scheduled automation are fully supported. Auto-scaling capabilities for on-premises VMs will be coming soon.

Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI is currently in preview by Microsoft. Nerdio is participating in the preview and releasing this new functionality now to propel interest ahead of the Microsoft solution’s general availability and provide the easiest route to enterprise adoption.

There are over 14 additional new features in Nerdio Manager for Enterprise v4.1. Highlighted new features allow organizations to extend Azure API limits in very large Azure Virtual Desktop deployments with thousands of VMs, and the ability to automate deployment of session host VMs onto Azure Dedicated Hosts to enable compute isolation, which can be important in highly secured and compliant environments.

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“I applaud that this consummate consortium of nonprofits has formed to actively protect us against security threats to our digital infrastructure and uphold our open internet, combining their knowledge, skills, and tools for the greatest effect,” said Govind Shivkumar, director of responsible technology at Omidyar Network.

Nonprofit Cyber will initially focus on two priorities: building awareness of the work of cybersecurity nonprofits globally and aligning their work to achieve the greatest effect. Envisioned as a “collaboration-of-equals,” each member organization has committed to work in coordination to better serve Internet users globally. Coalition members must be a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) nonprofit if organized under U.S. law or hold an equivalent status if organized under the laws of another country. More information is available at the coalition’s website NonprofitCyber.org and on Twitter at @NonprofitCyber.

The twenty-two founding members of Nonprofit Cyber are the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the Center for Internet Security, the Center for Threat-Informed Defense, the Cloud Security Alliance, Consumer Reports, CREST International, the Cyber Defence Alliance, the CyberPeace Institute, the Cyber Readiness Institute, the Cyber Threat Alliance, the Cybercrime Support Network, the CyberGreen Institute, the FIDO Alliance, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, the Global Cyber Alliance, the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance, the National Cybersecurity Alliance, the Open Web Application Security Project, SAFECode, the Shadowserver Foundation, Sightline Security, and #ShareTheMicInCyber. Tony Sager of CIS and Philip Reitinger of GCA will serve as co-chairs as the organization begins operations.

Nonprofit Cyber welcomes applications for new members that work to implement best practices and solutions at scale. Nonprofit Cyber is focused on these organizations, rather than lobbying or policy development and advocacy organizations, or industry associations.

Information on joining Nonprofit Cyber can be found at its website.

About the Nonprofit Cyber Founding Members

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is the international coalition unifying the global response to cybercrime across industry, government and law-enforcement sectors and NGO communities. Learn more at https://apwg.org.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation. Learn more at https://cisecurity.org.

The Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID) is a non-profit, privately funded research and development organization whose mission is to advance the state of the art and the state of the practice in threat-informed defense globally. Learn more at https://ctid.mitre-engenuity.org/.

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is the world’s leading organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment. Learn more at https://cloudsecurityalliance.org.

Consumer Reports (CR) is an independent, nonprofit member organization that works side by side with consumers for truth, transparency, and fairness in the marketplace. Learn more at https://www.consumerreports.org.

CREST International is an international not-for-profit accreditation and certification body that represents and supports the technical information security market. Learn more at https://crest-approved.org.

The Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA) is a not for profit members organization based in London working on behalf of financial institutions to proactively share threat intelligence and expertise to prevent and disrupt cyber attacks, liaise with Law enforcement agencies to target cybercriminal networks and apprehend the most prolific offenders. The CDA works on a cross sector basis and with like minded organizations on an international basis to address the global threat from cybercrime. The CDA also provides a 24/7 incident response capability to support the member organizations and the UK Financial Services Cybercrime Collaboration Centre (FSCCC) during major cyber incidents.

The Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI) mission is to empower small and medium-sized enterprises with free tools and resources to help them become more secure and resilient. Learn more at https://cyberreadinessinstitute.org.

The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) is working to improve the cybersecurity of our global digital ecosystem by enabling near real-time, high-quality cyber threat information sharing among companies and organizations in the cybersecurity field. Learn more at https://www.cyberthreatalliance.org.

The Cybercrime Support Network’s (CSN) mission is to serve individuals and small businesses impacted by cybercrime. Learn more at https://cybercrimesupport.org. ‘

The CyberGreen Institute (CyberGreen) is dedicated to mobilizing a global community of experts, business leaders, and policymakers to revolutionize cybersecurity through the development of a science of Internet Public Health. Learn more at https://www.cybergreen.net.

The CyberPeace Institute is a nongovernmental organization whose mission is to reduce the harms from cyberattacks on people’s lives worldwide, provide assistance to vulnerable communities and call for responsible cyber behaviour, accountability and cyberpeace. At the heart of the CyberPeace Institute’s efforts is the recognition that cyberspace is about people. Learn more at https://cyberpeaceinstitute.org

The FIDO Alliance is an open industry association with a focused mission: authentication standards to help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords. The FIDO Alliance promotes the development of, use of, and compliance with standards for authentication and device attestation. Learn more at https://fidoalliance.org/.

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) aspires to bring together incident response and security teams from every country across the world to ensure a safe internet for all. Learn more at https://www.first.org.

The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) builds practical, measurable solutions and tools that are easy to use, and works with partners to accelerate adoption around the world. Learn more at www.globalcyberalliance.org.

The National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) was established in 2002 as a nonprofit partnership between private industry, government, and academia. The NCFTA provides a neutral environment for operational collaboration in the ongoing effort to identify, mitigate, and disrupt cyber crime. Learn more at https://www.ncfta.net.

The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) advocates for the safe use of all technology and educates everyone on how best to protect ourselves, our families, and our organizations from cybercrime. Learn more at www.staysafeonline.org.

The Open Web Application Security Project® (OWASP) is a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the security of software. Through community-led open-source software projects, hundreds of local chapters worldwide, tens of thousands of members, and leading educational and training conferences, the OWASP Foundation is the source for developers and technologists to secure the web. Learn more at https://owasp.org.

SAFECode is a global industry forum where business leaders and technical experts come together to exchange insights and ideas on creating, improving, and promoting scalable and effective software security programs. Learn more at https://safecode.org.

The Shadowserver Foundation’s (Shadowserver) mission is to make the Internet more secure by bringing to light vulnerabilities, malicious activity and emerging threats. Learn more at https://shadowserver.org.

#ShareTheMicInCyber (#STMIC) is an online movement to address issues stemming from systemic racism in cybersecurity. The social media campaign highlights the experiences of Black practitioners in this field, catalyzes a critical conversation on race in the industry, and shines a light on Black practitioners’ accomplishments to showcase them as experts in their fields all while creating professional opportunities and bringing the cyber community together. Learn more at www.sharethemicincyber.com.

Sightline Security is a nonprofit security organization whose mission is to equip, empower, and support global nonprofits to navigate and embed cybersecurity into their organizations with confidence—founded to address the lack of cybersecurity adoption in the nonprofit sector by offering a holistic, business, and community-centric approach designed to embrace cybersecurity best practices. At Sightline, there is a world where nonprofits have the confidence, knowledge, and business acumen to stay protected in a digital world. Learn more at https://sightlinesecurity.org.

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Nerdio Manager adds value on top of the powerful capabilities in Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365. It is an Azure management platform that allows admins to seamlessly provision and manage deployments of both Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 side by side.

The initial integration with MEM has commenced. When complete, it will allow service providers to do the following actions in Nerdio Manager for MSP:

• Leverage Nerdio Manager to manage all endpoints centrally, including those in Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365 as well as physical desktops and mobile devices.
• Install and manage all types of applications on physical and virtual desktops.
• Apply policies and baselines to ensure endpoint compliance.
• Leverage endpoint analytics to monitor and improve performance and user experience.
• Provide remote assistance to users with remote help capabilities.

“Through this new integration, Nerdio Manager is evolving to enable organizations to more easily adopt cloud-first technologies while consolidating and modernizing endpoint management,” said Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and co-founder, Nerdio. “Being able to manage physical devices alongside virtual desktops via the same platform will help managed service providers better serve the needs of the businesses and workers they support.”

The announcement was delivered during Vladimirskiy’s opening keynote presentation at NerdioCon 2022, the company’s annual user and industry conference, where he also shared Nerdio has reached two million users under management across its product portfolio.

“We continue to be impressed by Nerdio’s grasp on evolving IT needs and the future of virtual desktop, application and endpoint management,” said Scott Manchester, Director of Program Management for Windows 365, Microsoft. “We look forward to how this new integration will benefit managed service providers and help them progress in their cloud journeys.”

Nerdio additionally detailed plans for the 2022 Nerdio Manager for MSP product roadmap. Updates and features expected this spring include full support for new Windows 365 Business API, the ability to manage already installed apps on multi-session AVD desktops leveraging FSLogix App Masking technology, and updates to their free Cost Estimator tool to reflect Microsoft’s New Commerce Experience changes effective in March.

The company will also launch several training and resource initiatives to support MSP partners in accelerating their Azure practices. This includes facilitating partner-to-partner engagement by vetting and certifying MSPs and freelance IT talent available to help other partners with tasks that require specialized skillsets with Azure and Nerdio technology or third-party products.

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The newly created company will offer full-lifecycle expertise across the complete technology landscape and deliver the superior technical experience customers need to make informed decisions in today’s complex digital world. Together, they will guide customers’ technology solution strategies including insights into what to buy, what to build, how best to manage, and how to secure critical enterprise environments to improve market share and reduce costs.

“Veristor is an advanced technology solutions provider with deep expertise in security, storage, networking, DevOps, and collaboration,” said Brian Glahn, CEO, Anexinet. “This merger demonstrates our commitment to delivering solutions that materially improve our clients’ business operations while enabling seamless experiences across touchpoints, locations, and channels. Not only does the merger double the size of our customer base, it greatly expands our engineering capabilities and delivery teams to allow us to better serve our customers.”

“Anexinet’s mission as a value-led company with a passion that puts people-first is perfectly aligned with Veristor’s culture, making them an ideal partner,” said Ashby Lincoln, President, CEO and Co-Founder, Veristor. “By combining our expertise, resources, and geographical reach we are creating a technology solution and service powerhouse. Together, Anexinet and Veristor have the combined strategy, design, engineering, security and managed services practices that will further accelerate technology time-to-value for our mutual clients as they modernize and transform the digital environments that run their businesses.”

Leveraging Mill Point Capital, Anexinet is building a single company that is truly aligned with what enterprise-class organizations want to build but can’t achieve on their own or by relying on a single hardware or software vendor.

“This merger, following Anexinet’s fully-integrated acquisitions of SereneIT and Light Networks for their automation, CCaaS, and UCaaS solutions, demonstrates the continued commitment to provide innovative, secure solutions to their clients,” said Michael Perdue, Anexinet Chairman of the Board and Mill Point Capital Executive Partner. “Combining Anexinet and Veristor significantly expands their product and service offerings and amplifies their go to market capability while providing enhanced value to their customers and partners.”

The merger of Anexinet and Veristor is effective today. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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“As usage of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) continues to grow, it has become a mission critical component in allowing continuous and safe access to corporate applications and data,” said Vadim Vladimirskiy, CEO and co-founder of Nerdio. “The new added powerful backup and disaster recovery capabilities in Nerdio Manager related to major areas of AVD operation, such as the management of desktop images and session hosts, improve the service’s resiliency, ensure business continuity and allow us to help IT teams when they need it most.”

Key backup and disaster recovery features now available in Nerdio Manager include:

• Active/Active Host Pool Disaster Recovery – When enabled, Nerdio Manager will automatically distribute session host virtual machines (VMs) across two Azure regions. Users will be distributed across VMs in both regions as they log in and FSLogix profiles will be automatically replicated. In case of an Azure region failure, users will continue accessing VMs in the available region, ensuring continuity of data and operations. This feature will be available in Nerdio Manager for MSP in Q1 2022.
• Desktop Image Backup and Geographic Replication – Nerdio Manager’s built-in desktop image backup functionality allows users to backup images automatically. Users can geo-replicate desktop images through Nerdio’s integration with Azure Compute Gallery to keep desktop images in sync across multiple Azure regions.
• Support for FSLogix Cloud Cache – Nerdio Manager automatically enables and configures FSLogix Cloud Cache on disaster recovery-enabled host pools. Users’ profiles are asynchronously replicated across multiple storage locations making them available during regional outages. This provides a resilient disaster recovery configuration because if one location becomes unavailable, Cloud Cache will automatically fail over to a secondary location where profiles are accessible.
• Auto-healing Capabilities – Session host VMs are responsible for the delivery of users’ desktops and apps and must be available for users to be able to connect. Nerdio Manager’s Auto-Heal functionality automatically detects and repairs broken session hosts.

“As enterprises increase adoption of virtual workplace technologies like VDI, ensuring the resilience and recoverability of data is a paramount priority,” said Mark Bowker, Senior Analyst, ESG. “In fact, according to our data, aside from strengthening authentication, business continuity and disaster recovery plans are a top priority to support today’s ‘back to office’ transitions. By supporting active/active replication and adding in features such as built-in desktop image backups, Nerdio is furthering business availability and making AVD virtual desktops a resilient choice for digital workforces everywhere.”

Nerdio Manager extends the native AVD service rather than replacing it like other proprietary VDI management solutions on the market. Through separate products tailored to meeting the needs of Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and enterprises, it delivers over 200 features that the native service lacks to simplify management, ensure efficient operations through automation, and lower compute and storage costs on average between 50-75%.

Additional new features and functionality for both Nerdio Manager products will be unveiled at NerdioCon, Nerdio’s first in-person user and partner conference happening February 21-23, 2022 in Cancun, Mexico. To register, visit www.nerdiocon.com.

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“Flexxible IT has been a leader in the DaaS space since 2008, and we are excited to expand our reach to support customers staying or moving to any vendor or any cloud,” said Sebastian Prat, CEO at Flexxible IT. “We see FlexxDesktop as the future of DaaS, enabling the enterprise to build their own DaaS solution on their terms where they can pay-as-they-go and transition to any vendor or cloud at their pace. It allows the enterprise to choose the vendors they see fit and to migrate seamlessly between them.”

FlexxDesktop is available today in a subscription pricing model, so it allows enterprises to migrate existing environments to any cloud with ease at a cost that is OPEX friendly. Many DaaS vendors lock customers to a single platform or cloud. The cloud may not be feasible for some, and the customer will still need the data center. FlexxDesktop enables DaaS to enhance the digital experience for any end-user through a simplified management architecture built for any cloud or any data center.

“FlexxDesktop enables enterprises to have a choice,” said Pete Downing, CMO at Flexxible IT. “DaaS is complex and FlexxDesktop aims to simplify the day-to-day management as well as give enterprises the choice to use any vendor, their data center, their edge, and any cloud.”

Flexxible IT is giving an overview and highlight on the key features of FlexxDesktop via a webinar on November 3, 2021, at 11:00 AM EST. You can register here.

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