3 Key Business Reasons for Desktop Virtualisation

It was interesting to read comments made by Gavriella Schuster (General Manager for Windows PMG, Microsoft Corporation) whilst outlining Microsoft’s ‘optimised desktop’ plans.  Schuster reveals that client feedback had identified the following as the top 3 reasons that organisations are implementing VDI:

1)     To give their users the flexibility to work from any location.

2)     Improve compliance by centralising control and managing access to confidential information.

3)     To allow IT professionals to manage physical and virtual assets through a single centralised platform.

Applied Technologies has reviewed the VDI market place and have determined that one product in particular stands out through its unique deployment architecture.  At one third of the cost of the average VDI solution, Kaviza (http://www.kaviza.com/) has thrown the ‘VDI rule book’ out of the window.   Personally, I’ve found that with IT budgets decreasing in the public and private sector there has never been as much demand to lengthen PC refresh cycles and cut ongoing support costs.

An excellent example is Fitzharry School where Kaviza has transformed the desktop environment.

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Kaviza offers instant and cost-effective classroom benefits including:

• Extend PC lifetime. Education customers have limited funds to replace only a few PCs at a time. Simply replacing them for newer PCs is an ongoing 3-5 year cycle that does not reduce management costs. Kaviza enables IT to rollout virtual desktops for less than the cost of replacing PCs and schools can reuse their old PCs as end-points to access Windows 7 virtual desktops.
• Repurpose current budgets. Kaviza offers education customers virtual desktops for under $500 – with minimal investment and without needing additional capital. Kaviza eliminates over 60% of the infrastructure investment needed for traditional desktop virtualization. Schools can start with off-the-shelf servers they may already own and add incremental capacity as needed over time.
• Reduce desktop support and management by over 80%. Most schools have limited IT resources. Kaviza is easy to set up and manage and requires no retraining. And virtual desktops cut down desktop support and management costs. Kaviza’s education customers report an average of 85% reduction in desktop maintenance and support costs achieved by centralizing and consolidating desktop image management.
• Offer hardware-independent anytime anywhere access. With Kaviza, education customers can extend resources to allow students and teachers to gain access from anywhere, including their home, on a number of devices including laptops, tablets and other mobile devices such as iPhones, Blackberrys and Android based handsets.
• Everyone gets a “virtual computer.” Teachers and students increasingly need access to a computer to prepare classes and assignments. Physical PCs take up valuable classroom space and become difficult to maintain, manage and keep secure. With Kaviza, every student and teacher gains secure anytime, anywhere access to a “virtual computer.”
• Lower power bills. By consolidating many individual desktops onto a few servers reduces monthly electric bills. Using thin clients to access the virtual desktops can reduce power consumption by 70 to 85%.

Applied Technologies run daily Kaviza webinar sessions, find out yourself how Kaviza can change your business.  Please contact us to be involved with tomorrow’s webinar.

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