This document summarizes an episode of the NxTop Radio podcast about how Southwestern Computer used the NxTop virtual desktop solution from Virtual Computer to address their clients' needs. Southwestern Computer had clients like a car dealer and state entity who needed to standardize their employees' desktop environments but faced constraints like high costs and application incompatibilities. NxTop allowed Southwestern to centrally manage virtual desktop images that could be delivered to employees over the internet, solving their clients' problems in a cost effective way. Southwestern was very satisfied with how smoothly the NxTop implementation went.

1. NxTop Radio
Episode 1
Southwestern Computer
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3. Duplicate Infrastructure at Each Desk
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5. Customer Scenario
Car Dealer SWC’s Client State Entity
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6. State Adds Some Constraints
Internet, Email
and Business
Applications
State Entity
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8. New Applications Couldn’t Run
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10. Progress Was Stalled
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12. Southwestern Computer
“The only
software on the
market I could
actually use”
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14. VDI Too Expensive
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16. NxTop Solution
Dell PowerEdge T710 Dell Optiplex 960
Dual quad core CPU’s, Intel® Core™ 2 Duo
12Gb RAM, RAID 1/5 disk setup with VT (3.0GHz)
Backend Server Client PC’s
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18. Desktop Configuration
www www
Client NxTop State Entity NxTop
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20. Image Creation and Management
Southwestern Internet,
Computer Email
Desktop Image 1
Business
Applications
Requirements
State Entity Desktop Image 2
Configuration Chief
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23. Southwestern Computer
“Supporting
this…has been
pretty flawless”
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24. Implementation Process
One Old
New PC with
Two Old PC’s One New
Two NxTops
(with NxTop)
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26. Southwestern Computer
“Absolutely!”
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27. Schedule Your Live
Demonstration
http://www.virtualcomputer.com/nxtoplive
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