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Converged DesktopReduce Expenditure | Improve Productivity | Ensure Consistency

In a complicated world,we simply do what we say

Charles Barratt

Business Development Director

www.dataplex-systems.com

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Who we are

Established in 1996

Impartial ICT Consultancy

Nationwide Coverage

Group Turnover 2009 16M

Delivered virtualised solutions for 14 years with 150+ years experience across our technical pool

Implemented PBs of consolidated storage from physical SAN and virtual storage

Secured over 300,000 endpoints with encryption software across public and private sectors

Trusted Brand with partners and clients.

Oxford

0845 260 4747

Manchester

0845 260 5757



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Our Solutions Capability



Our advisory capability is agnostic to vendors and technologies, and we provide our services and solutions against the following business initiatives

Our design services are against the products we have already discussed and it is typically at this stage we undertake the analysis, audit and design element to match your business drivers and technical requirements. Ultimately our design team become an extension of your team with our final design being the blueprint and for you it under rights the design to ensure it will work with your unique needs.

Frequently we are approached to provide impartial consultancy services to assist in the development of a corporate strategy for projects such as:

Virtualisation

Collaboration

Business Intelligence

Cloud

Security Strategies.

Following on from our design services we typically carry on to the implementation phase. Our implementation services are directly against the products we highlight further on and we have the ability to deliver our design from project and programme management through to implementation, end user testing and acceptance and ultimately commissioning.

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Storage Architecture

Tiered Virtualisation

Security & Compliance

Business Continuity & DR

Collaboration & Messaging

Cloud Computing

Infrastructure & Server Architecture

Networking

Technical Capability

Cloud Security

Desktop Security

Networking

Server

Proliant

Integrity

Management

Datacentre Security

Availability

Virtualisation

Storage



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The Converged Desktop

Consumerisation is the single biggest trend affecting corporate IT

Home PCs

Laptops & Netbooks

Smartphones



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IT Challenges & Priorities

How do I effectivelymigrate to Windows 7?

How can I preserve and extend my existing investments?

How do I manage costs?

How do I keep mydata safe andapplications secure?

Should I embrace

cloud services?

How do I ensure my applications are available and can be accessed?

How do I take

advantage of virtualisation?



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The Need for a Desktop Strategy

Hardware

Data & Settings

Applications

OS

Hardware Considerations

Will consumer devices be allowed on your network?

How will you support mobile devices?

How will you manage the hardware lifecycle?

Operating System Considerations

How can users get to their environment from other PCs?

How many images will you need to maintain?

How will you handle migration?

Application Considerations

How will you provide access from anywhere?

Do you know how many applications you have?

How will you manage the application lifecycle?

Data & User Settings Considerations

How will you provide data security on all devices?

How will users access data from different PCs?

Is data searchable across PCs, local networks & the cloud?

Primary Desktop Challenge:

PC Components are bound together, making hardware & software difficult & expensive to replace

Solution:

Remove the hard wired dependencies and consider the layers independently



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Microsoft & Citrix Power through Partnership

Microsoft

VDI Suites

For Integrated

Management

Desktop and

Session Delivery

User Profiles and Data

Roaming Profiles

Folder Redirection

Application Delivery

Remote App

Virtualisation Platform

Desktop and Session Delivery for Enterprise Deployments

XenDesktop 4

Citrix Technology



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Choose the right desktop for the user

Server-side compute

Local

VM-based

Desktops

(Offline)

Local

Streamed

desktops

Hosted

Blade PC

desktops

Hosted

VM-based

Desktops

(VDI)

Hosted

shared

desktops

Mobile

users

Task

workers

USER TYPES

Virtual apps to installed desktops

Client-side compute

70% of the desktop can be delivered through XenApp



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Too many choices and too many options

Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktops

Internal Hosted Virtual Desktops

Terminal Servers

Application Virtualisation

How do you assess your needs?

Confusion = (Technologies * x) + (Vendors * y)



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Look Familiar?
SummaryNew Servers3Consolidation Ratio5:3:1Consolidation16Server CountRack UnitsAnnual Energy CostEnergy Use (kWh/yr)Heat Dissipation (BTU/yr)Processor (%)Memory (%)Disk Space (%)Source Server18193097.7620651.77039536019.663.0.40.3Target Servers361576.80105123584592326.941.6Change-10-13-1520.96-10139.7-34594407.3-21.3Change (%)-76.9-68.4-49.1-49.1-49.1
Industry average for average CPU utilisation 6-8%



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Source ServersServer CountRack UnitsAnnual Energy Cost100100100Target ServersServer CountRack UnitsAnnual Energy Cost233150

Source ServersProcessorMemoryDisk SpaceDisk IONetwork IO20634000Target ServersProcessorMemoryDisk SpaceDisk IONetwork IO2742029

Forget it - Desktops are not Servers

Desktop Interaction is different to Server Interaction with hardware

Do not compare desktop virtualisation to server virtualisation, they interact with hardware differently

Not all desktop brokers are the same

Not all hypervisors are the same

Users do not care how many servers you are not running because of this project

Users want a better experience than they get now

Get desktop virtualisation wrong and everyone will know about it

Get server virtualisation wrong and only a pocket of people know about it



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Simplifying the Complicated

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Firstly not all desktops are candidates

Dont just ask the question how many users can I get on a box.

Guess work is not an option

Objective tests are critical

Work with the user, they need to feel part of the process

Combination of technical and business consulting is needed to ensure success

Partially automated and partially manual

There is a big human element to VDI, dont forget it.



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Project Initiation

Assess & Analyse

Design & Financials

Review

Implement

POC & Pilot

The Automated Bit

See how well specific machines, users and applications fit in VDI:

Analyse by group

Workload statistics

System CPU

User CPU

Memory Use

Paging

Disk I/O

Network I/O

Advanced metrics

User logons

App loading

Network latency

Graphics intensity

Categorize workloads

Application Compatability.

Best Fit

Worst Fit



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The Human Bit

User Involvement is key

Sponsorship is critical

Communication is paramount



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Understand your operational IT architecture

Understand Business Goals and Vision

Gap Analysis of Current State to Desired State

Understand your users and their pains, make them feel involved

Establish your Reference Architecture

Understand your Financial Model

Develop Business Case for Virtual Desktop

POC/Pilot

Analyze the assessment

The POC



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30 Day POC

Fully Supported/Managed

Windows 7 or Windows XP

AppSense UEM

Hosted/Streamed Applications

Our Equipment, Your Environment

Mitigated Risk

Thin Clients Available from Wyse or HP

Where Next?

Desktop virtualisation Project

Run successful POC

Understand what can be virtualised

Secure Board Sponsorship



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The Numbers - Client Confidential

Organisations industry: Manufacturing

1000 desktops and 800 are being considered for virtualisation:

Application Streaming to desktop 300 existing machines

Hosted Virtual Machines 1:1 - 100 Existing and Thin Clients

Hosted Virtual Machines 1:M 200 Existing and Thin Clients

Local Desktop Streaming: 50 thin clients

Hosted Shared Desktops: 150 Existing and Thin Clients

Citrix XenDesktop solution versus the As Is opportunities shows that implementing the proposed solution resulted in a TCO saving of 1,004,442 over 3 years

Net Present Value savings 778,042

Return on Investment of 149%

Payback Period of 10 months

24% saving over the 3 year period

Design



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Case Study - Project Assurance

Access, Data Security

and Compliance

Management of Centralised Desktops

Business Agility and Continuity

Customer Results

Data

App-V

AppSense

XDT/XA

Simplified desktop upgrade to Windows 7 reducing administration costs

Redirected IT budget to SaaS model through Microsoft BPOS

Delivery of CAD based applications with LAN based performance across the WAN

DR for desktop services through HP 4500 and VSA technology.



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Summary

Integrated Management

Converged Desktop

Increase desktop utilisation, reduce operating costs and improve service levels

End user productivity spanning on premise and cloud through a single desktop

Simplified physical, virtual and application management

SaaS should be considered as any other application

Dont shy away from datacentre licensing it maybe your new friend:

Windows 2008 Datacentre Edition

SMSd



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Come and see us Stand 659

dataplex systems ltd

Manchester - 0845 260 5757

Oxford 0845 260 4747

Contact: Charles Barratt

Title: Business Development Director

DDI: 0845 260 5757

Mobile: 07900 900 976

Email: [email protected]



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