As we reach the midpoint of the first quarter, we wanted to take a moment to look back on the past year – and thank our customers and employees for helping make it such a great one!

Back in the late 1980s, the UK government’s Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) developed a set of recommendations to govern the way private and public sector organizations manage IT with a set of standard practices.

The recently released Futurum Research report, Digital Transformation – 9 Key Insights, offers critical data points that measure the current state of digital transformation in the enterprise to uncover new opportunities and improve business agility. According to the report: “Digital transformation is an ongoing process of leveraging digital technologies to build flexibility, agility, and adaptability into business processes.”

The MEAN stack has become an increasingly popular choice for developing dynamic applications. Similar to other development stacks like LAMP and Ruby on Rails, MEAN bundles together complementary technologies to provide a ready-made framework for developing and serving applications.

If you’re reading this, it means you’re at least mildly interested in Sentry and would likely be interested in some exciting new features that we’ll be releasing very soon. You can get the details on all these new features below. Also, if you’re currently in our Early Adopter program, you can potentially access these features right now. Not part of this program? Your organization can opt in at any time with the flip of a single switch found in your org settings.

In this post, we share a story about how one of the top 10 airlines utilized a new technology to solve an old problem: Proactively confirm that the Sabre Reservation System, accessed using Citrix, would be available when reservation specialists attempted to logon and schedule flights for customers. They selected the Goliath Application Availability Testing Service for Citrix.

Virtualization technology is being widely adopted thanks to the flexibility, agility, reliability and ease of administration it offers. At the same time, any IT technology – hardware or software – is only as good as its maintenance and upkeep, and VMware virtualization is no different.

From Wikipedia: “Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority…” In developmental psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy is a classification system that reflects the universal needs of society as its base and then proceeds to more acquired emotions. Here is a graphical depiction of Maslow’s hierarchy.

If you’ve chosen Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, you’re almost certainly relying on Nutanix Prism to help you migrate, then operate, the “enterprise cloud.” There’s no doubt that Prism is an outstanding tool for managing virtual environments. But — when was the last time someone complimented you on a well-managed virtual environment. Never, right? Because that’s not your job.

This is the fourth and final article of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. With a better understanding of the various widgets available, you can build custom dashboards that cover the end user experience for any application delivered to a branch office or location.