Tech Track: Veritably Valuable Virtualization – Voila! (11NTCttvirt)

1. Desktop Virtualization Not for the faint of heart 1 #11NTCttvirt

2. 2 Desktop virtualization is hot, and vendor competition is fierce. Three of the top virtual desktop products are Citrix XenDesktop, Quest vWorkspace and VMware View. Of the three, only VMware doesn't provide customers with a choice of infrastructure. While Citrix and Quest support just about everything out there

4. Deploy to more personal devices

5. Security

6. Protect organization data

7. Improved IT Management

8. Single entry of app installs

10. Increase Business Continuity Synchronizes personal profiles, settings and data to the data-center using Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection Saves Cost: ON THE FRONT END - quickly recover from PC failures and PC theft Enable anywhere access: enable users to access their data from any authorized PC at any time Improve business continuity: get users’ data on a new PC simply by logging in MultiPoint Server – distributed via USB or Ethernet devices, good example of a low cost VDI solution

12. Distribution nodes via USB

13. Monitor, Mouse, Keyboard,

14. Headset connector

15. Connect via Domain or Local accounts

16. Single distribution of appshttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/multipoint/default.aspx

18. Diverse Equipment – personal laptops

20. Research online –

21. Lakeside Software http://www.lakesidesoftware.com/

23. Web Resources Citrix Ask the Architect website http://community.citrix.com/p/xendesktop-on-microsoft#home XenDesktop with Microsoft Hyper-V Guide http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx124687 XenDesktop Modular Reference Architecture http://support.citrix.com/article/ctx124087

24. Questions to ask . . . What are you trying to solve – Hardware deployments? Application Deployment? Lower desktop costs? Do you have the infrastructure? What’s your bandwidth and internal traffic like? What is your support?

25. Where to find me . . . Twitter: @michaelsola solam@nwf.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsola