Tuning AVD for sub-2-second logons in the GCC

Most Azure Virtual Desktop deployments in the GCC launch with logon times between 8 and 25 seconds. Users tolerate it for a few weeks, then start calling it slow, then start asking whether the investment was worth it. The frustrating part for IT is that there is no single cause. A logon is a chain […]

Why Vembu BDRSuite wins on M365 protection

Microsoft 365 comes with a common misunderstanding baked in: that because Microsoft runs the infrastructure, Microsoft is backing up your data. It is not. Microsoft’s shared responsibility model covers service availability — keeping Exchange Online, SharePoint and Teams accessible. It does not protect against accidental deletion, malicious deletion, ransomware encryption of cloud-synced files, or the […]

Thin client refresh: lease, buy, or repurpose?

The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 produced a question that most GCC IT managers were hoping to defer: what do we do with the endpoint estate? The hardware is not necessarily worn out. A significant share of the corporate PC fleet in the GCC is three to five years old, physically functional, […]

A sane approach to MFA on legacy VDI gateways

Adding multi-factor authentication to a modern identity platform is a configuration exercise. Adding it to a legacy VDI gateway is a project. The gap between those two things is where a significant share of GCC IT security spend gets consumed — not in the MFA itself, but in the integration work required to make MFA […]

GITEX 2025: five EUC trends we’re watching in 2026

GITEX Global in Dubai is the clearest signal each year of where GCC enterprise IT is actually heading — not where vendors say it is heading. The 2025 edition ran with more stands dedicated to AI infrastructure and endpoint computing than any previous year, and the conversations in those stands were noticeably different from the […]