Many organizations are migrating their IT infrastructure to the private cloud with Azure. This allows them to retain control of their network. To help businesses print easily, performantly and with as little effort as possible in this environment, ThinPrint has released its ThinPrint Cloud Print Server on Azure solution.

ThinPrint Cloud Print Server is the leading cloud printing solution for Azure and offers its features used in other environments:

• Advanced Compression and Adaptive Compression to minimize print data volume and optimize available bandwidth.
• SpeedCache, streaming and font management for fast printouts.
• ThinPrint AutoConnect for fast and flexible assignment of local and network printers.
• Driver-free printing for all printer models, eliminating the need for management-intensive native printer drivers in physical and virtual desktops.
• SSL encryption for secure transmission of host print jobs.
• High Availability and Load Balancing

“We are excited to introduce our Cloud Print Server on Azure, which provides government and enterprise customers with a solution for fast and reliable printing to virtual desktop environments in the private cloud,” said Charlotte Kuenzell, CEO of ThinPrint. “With adaptive compression, SSL encryption and simplified printer mapping, our Cloud Print Server delivers the highest levels of performance, security and control in the private cloud.”

ThinPrint Cloud Print Server can be tested for free in the private cloud for the first 30 days, including all features. After that, flexible, cost-effective licensing is available for the private cloud. You can download ThinPrint Cloud Print Server in Azure Marketplace here.

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“We are very excited to be joining the IGEL Ready Program. With the hybrid work environment a given going forward for virtually all organizations, our two product technologies make great cost efficient sense for virtually every company,” said Brian Garoutte, CEO of MyCloudIT. “IGEL is a perfect fit for our existing customers and new logo additions.”

With the Azure cloud automating a number of tactical IT tasks with regard to desktops, solutions from IGEL and MyCloudIT bring lower costs and higher value to entities looking to deliver a high performing, secure and very reliable IT environment for all types of workloads.   For work at home/hybrid work solutions, IGEL’s focus and timing is impeccable in conjunction with Azure and the MyCloudIT platform.

“The future of enterprise computing is in the cloud and the IGEL Ready technology partner program makes it easy for any company to deploy their applications to virtual desktops and cloud workspaces, reaching a new and relevant market while also enabling world-class customer service,” said Divya Saggar, Director, IGEL Ready. “We welcome MyCloudIT to our growing ecosystem of more than 100 IGEL Ready partners as they become part of a powerful validation movement in the end user computing industry.”

Established in July 2020, IGEL Ready is a growing ecosystem of more than 100 technology partners providing hardware, software, and peripheral solutions that have been verified for use with IGEL OS to deliver a powerful, productive, and secure user experience for digital workspaces within modern workplace environments. In an era where customers and their employees require reliable, frictionless access to tools, applications, and services, IGEL Ready helps ensure product compatibility and productivity to support business continuity and growth. The IGEL Ready program ensures that partner applications are validated and shared, and that their customers have access to updated and secure software. This vibrant ecosystem enables customers to consider compatible devices and partner applications across eight categories in the IGEL Ready Showcase.

You can learn more in the MyCloudIT IGEL Ready Showcase page MyCloudIT Azure Management Platform – IGEL.  To start the IGEL Ready application process, visit igel.com/partners/technology-partners/. To explore the IGEL Ready ecosystem of solutions, visit igel.com/ready.

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Whether or not a business decides to combine WVD with Citrix, the first step in migrating more VDI workloads to the cloud is moving Citrix workloads to Azure. Establishing Azure as the Citrix cloud of choice provides flexibility for the future – integrating WVD at some point or adding other Citrix applications. Hosting a Citrix environment in Azure – either workloads, the management layer, or both – removes the need for expensive on-premises server hardware and storage. Azure offers a rapid deployment platform, with a consumption-based pay-as-you-go model, perfect for addressing the current challenges in a remote-centric work environment.

Readiness Checklist

The combination of Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure makes it possible to spin up new Citrix virtual resources with greater agility and elasticity, adjusting usage as requirements change. Virtual Machines on Azure support all the control and workload components required for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service deployment. Citrix Cloud and Microsoft Azure have common control plane integrations that establish identity, governance, and security for global operations.

Before moving an on-prem Citrix implementation to the cloud, start with this checklist to assess your Citrix-on-Azure readiness:

• Define the user workspace: Start with an overview of how your employees are currently accessing applications. Estimate how many users are expected within the environment. Determine what types of applications will be consumed and what the VDI requirements are for the applications. Assess Citrix Virtual Apps versus Virtual Desktops as the best system for delivering the applications.
• Gauge workflow performance requirements. Analyze when users will be accessing the environment and what are peak hours. What is the expected consumption throughout the day? The consumption of users during specific hours helps identify workspace requirements for scale automation and Azure reserved Instance purchasing.
• Determine geographical reach needs. Obtain a clear, current picture of where end users are located. Will workspaces need to be deployed across multiple regions or only in a single region? Multiple Azure regions are typically considered for the following high-level reasons: – Proximity to application data or end users – Geographic Redundancy for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery – Azure Feature or Service availability.
• Evaluate current applications running on Azure, if any.  Will they be migrated to Citrix on Azure? Have they been vetted recently for business value to justify cloud storage costs? Are they also hosted on-prem? This is an opportunity to do some application cleanup based on ROI and storage fees.
• Establish identity management. How to achieve identity integration is a decision the IT teams need to make early on. One of the cornerstones of the entire picture of Azure is the identity of a person and their role-based access (RBAC). Azure identity is managed through Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and Azure AD Domain Services. IT must decide which way to go for its identity integration.
• Assess application security requirements. Azure provides a wide array of configurable security options and the ability to control them so that customers can customize security to meet the unique requirements of their organization’s deployments. Among best practices, Citrix recommends keeping VMs current and ensuring at deployment that the images built include the most recent round of Windows and security updates. It also recommends periodically redeploying VMs to force a fresh version of the OS.
• Estimate needed environment resiliency. VDI, whether in the cloud or on-prem, needs to be reliable and resilient. IT can perform a load and stress-test on VDI before putting workloads into production and/or moving them to the cloud. Business critical applications cannot fail. This test can determine the resilience level of the system to handle usage peaks, for example.

Pre-production testing is essential to ensuring business continuity as VDI workloads go into production. Look for an expert that can stand up a demo of your environment. Many can be live in just a matter of days. This will enable you to test applications before executing any switchover from on-prem to the cloud and give you the confidence you need to realize a rapid time to value.

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DataWeave, a digital commerce analytics platform, today announced the availability of DataWeave competitive intelligence as a service in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. DataWeave’s customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.

DataWeave is a digital commerce analytics SaaS platform providing ‘competitive intelligence as a service’ to consumer brands, retailers and marketplaces, enabling them to accelerate sales growth, expand market share, and compete profitably at scale.

“With the dramatic increase in digital commerce in the post-COVID world, it is now mandatory for both omni-channel retailers and consumer brands to invest in Competitive Intelligence. Our partnership with Microsoft enables us to get this defining capability not only to large enterprises but also to those mid-market and smaller retailers and brands that are competing every day to get ahead,” said Krishnan Thyagarajan, President & COO, DataWeave.

The Azure Marketplace is an online market for buying and selling certified cloud solutions. It helps connect companies seeking innovative, cloud-based solutions with partners who have developed solutions that are ready to use.

“Microsoft Azure Marketplace lets customers worldwide discover, try and deploy software solutions that are certified and optimized to run on Azure. It helps solutions like DataWeave reach more customers and markets,” said Sahir Anand, Principal & Global Category Lead – Retail & CPG, Microsoft Azure Platform at Microsoft Corp.

DataWeave’s proprietary technology platform helps e-commerce businesses make smarter pricing and merchandising decisions. It also helps consumer brands protect their online brand equity and optimize their e-commerce performance. Visit the DataWeave website for more information.

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Datadog reports that the improved onboarding experience makes Datadog setup automatic, so new users can start monitoring the health and performance of their applications with Datadog quickly, whether they are based entirely in Azure or spread across hybrid or multi-cloud environments. With the deepest integration and the easiest configuration, Datadog is now clearly positioned as the premier monitoring solution for Azure.

In addition to the integration enhancements, the new channel through the Azure Marketplace allows customers to draw down on their committed Azure spend to purchase Datadog. This makes it significantly easier for customers to find budget, and also aligns incentives for Azure and Datadog sales teams for better collaboration and engagement in co-sell motions with enterprise clients. As a result, this partnership will enable more Azure customers to leverage Datadog’s observability platform to drive successful cloud modernization and migration initiatives.

Datadog’s native presence represents a first-of-its-kind integration of a third-party service into Azure.

“Azure is the first cloud to enable a seamless configuration and management experience for customers to use partner solutions like Datadog. Together with Datadog, we are enabling customers to use this experience to monitor their Azure workloads and enable an accelerated transition to the cloud,” – Corey Sanders, Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Azure

“Observability is a key capability for any successful cloud migration. Through our new partnership with Microsoft Azure, customers will now have access to the Datadog platform directly in the Azure console, enabling them to migrate, optimize and secure new and migrated workloads.” – Amit Agarwal, Chief Product Officer, Datadog

Through the new experience in the Azure Portal, customers can:

• Purchase a Datadog plan and consolidate billing through the Azure Marketplace
• Start sending Azure logs and metrics to Datadog with a few clicks
• View and manage which Azure resources are monitored by Datadog
• Easily deploy the Datadog agent to Azure hosts and web applications

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