We've recently been busy integrating Swivel PinSafe into a Citrix XenApp solution we deployed. End users now securely, remotely access a corporate Windows desktop and applications from a multitude of devices, including iPads.

Whilst we're using a Citrix Access Gateway as the connection endpoint, PinSafe introduces an additional, tokenless authentication factor to the mix, thus enhancing security beyond that offered by native logon options.

This week we've implemented a pilot VMware View 5 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for a client.

This has included both Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual desktops, all using View Composer for automated (stateless) desktop pools. Applications have been virtualised and deployed using the rather excellent ThinApp, and we have client connections coming in from iPads, Windows desktops and laptops, Linux thin clients and Apple OS X laptops.

Watching user sessions be disconnected at a PC, resumed and worked on using an iPad, disconnected again and then resumed at a Mac before finally being accessed at a Linux thin terminal is a great demonstration of the possibilities of a true "follow-me" desktop session.

Server-based computing is living up to the promise these days, and the potential is huge :-)

We've just implemented a Citrix XenApp Farm behind a Citrix Access Gateway for secure remote and mobile working. We've also got iPads on this solution, so mobile workers can securely access a full, corporate Windows desktop from their devices.

Users are loving the way that sessions are maintained so they can disconnect from a PC and then log in from an iPad and access all their running apps.......

Updates have been a little infrequent recently as we've been busy!

As part of our drive to grow our business and expand our client base, we're very excited to announce that we've opened a new office in Sussex. This will position illumit to better serve clients in London and the South East of England.

With a growing resume of customers and leading-edge IT infrastructure projects, we look forward to extending our portfolio in the South East. Please do contact us with any queries.

Recently setup some new Cisco 3750 switches and associated VLAN configuration, on a LAN and WAN infrastructure implemented by another party. This involved some detailed investigation to understand a fairly complex and un-documented configuration.

The review and setup was completed in a day.