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VMware-Desktop Modernization Ebook
VMware-Desktop Modernization Ebook
A guide to addressing End-User requirements and IT challenges using VMware desktop virtualization
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Chapter 1 The Desktop Dilemma The trouble with todays desktops Chapter 2 Desktop Modernization Addressing IT and end-user requirements Benets for IT Benets for the End-User Benets to Business Chapter 3 How to Get There
This eBook looks at the challenges involved in delivering and managing desktops, today and in the future. Its goal is to demonstrate how VMware desktop virtualization can deliver a solution to address the requirements of IT and end-users without compromise.
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Desktop Modernization and VMware View VMware View At A Glance VMware View Use Cases VMware View Benets VMware View Included Components Chapter 4 Getting Started Resources
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On the other hand, there are workforce demands to use new devices and applications, to increase productivity. Your end-users are bringing in their own devices smartphones and tablets that they expect to use in the working environment. Increasingly, theyre using cloud-based, SaaS applications to share les and work faster. They want to access their desktop across different devices, in different locations so that they can work on the move or at home. Its all proven to increase productivity for the business, making it more agile and competitive. Wouldnt it be great to enable such a modern working environment? How can you address both of these requirements? The answer is Desktop Modernization
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2. Desktop Modernization
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2. Desktop Modernization
Benets for IT
Desktop modernization will give you: Reduced costs Virtualization simplies and centralizes desktop management. So resources can be shifted from maintenance tasks to more innovative projects. Plus, there are signicant reductions in management and operation expenses to be made over time. More control, easier compliance Enhanced role-based admin and centralized desktop security policies give you more control, right across your user infrastructure. You can easily meet software compliance guidelines and ensure all desktops and applications are up to date from one screen. Additionally, you can maintain regulatory compliance by keeping information under control in your datacenter.
Higher availability The exibility of virtualization allows you to deal with back-ups, server admin and failures without interrupting desktop and application availability. Freeing the desktop from desktop hardware also gives users a highly available environment that keeps running even after they spill coffee on their thin client. An easier path to Windows 7 Get the benets of upgrading to Windows 7 without endless testing and legacy application issues, separate and encapsulate the components to deliver as a service from the datacenter. This accelerates your adoption time while cutting your costs in half. Board-level approval and end-user satisfaction A leap in end-user productivity, lower costs and greater business agility makes desktop modernization popular across the whole organization.
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2. Desktop Modernization
Benets to Business
There are sound business reasons to take desktop modernization to the board: Greater agility For example, the ability to easily deploy new end-user desktops and manage them centrally means you can react quickly to market changes, scaling resources up or down on the y to meet changing business needs. More competitive edge A modern desktop environment allows you to adopt new applications and services quickly, so you can gain competitive edge fast. A happier, more productive workforce End-users benet from a desktop thats more reliable and available in more places, giving them more time and exibility to work. The benets are clear, but how do you make them a reality? Heres how to implement desktop modernization
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Make more of what youve got. VMware View helps you increase the return from your existing IT resources and manage your costs more strategically. Windows 7 simplied. 76%* of companies plan to migrate to Windows 7 over the next two years. You can upgrade at twice the speed and half the cost with VMware View. Simplify your IT estate. With VMware View, you can deliver your desktops as a centrally-managed service and keep on top of updates and regulatory demands. You can enhance your organizations performance and save costs at the same time.
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Enable agile business process outsourcing Rapidly extend IT resources to third-party service providers without sacricing control over security policies or administrative privileges. With VMware View you can centrally host virtual desktops and applications and give users outside of the organization access through a secure network connection on desktops and thin clients. Extend business continuity and disaster recovery to desktops Leverage vSphere automated failover, load balancing, backup and recovery and other built-in datacenter-class business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. These protect desktop data and ensure continuous availability for end-users at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional solutions. Support users on-the-go with Follow-Me desktops Enable ultra-mobile users to roam freely from endpoint to endpoint by giving them instant access to a familiar, personalized desktop environment and critical applications while keeping your sensitive data secure and protected in the datacenter.
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Deliver rich user experiences, on demand VMware View is the only solution that lets you deliver rich user experiences across a variety of devices and locations online or off the grid. The High-performance PCoIP display protocol lets users work with their virtual desktops via a LAN or WAN connection. Additionally, VMware View Client with Local Mode enables them to work offline and leverage local processing resources. The result is a seamless user experience that combines the best of VDI and client virtualization. Standardize on a common virtualization platform VMware View is built on the industry-leading VMware vSphere virtualization platform, providing unparalleled performance, scalability, reliability and availability for virtual desktop environments. It also means that for the rst time your organization can standardize on a single common platform. This can cover your entire IT infrastructure, from the desktop to the datacenter and even through to cloud-based services from external service providers. Learn more about VMware vSphere http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere
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VMware View Administrator VMware View Administrator enables IT administrators to centrally manage thousands of virtual desktops from a single image, to streamline the management, provisioning, and deployment of virtual desktops. VMware View Client This component of VMware View runs on endpoint devices enabling end-users to access their virtual desktop environments from Windows PCs, Macs, thin clients and zero clients. VMware View Composer VMware View Composer lets customers rapidly create desktop images that share virtual disks with a single gold image. At the same time user data and settings are segmented so they can be managed independently. Desktops linked to the gold image can be patched or updated without affecting the user data and settings.
VMware ThinApp VMware ThinApp is an agentless application virtualization solution that streamlines application delivery while eliminating conicts. As part of VMware View, ThinApp simplies repetitive administrative tasks and reduces storage needs for virtual desktops by maintaining applications independently from the underlying OS. Application Assignment integrated with View Administrator enables IT admins to centrally assign applications to individual View desktops or pools of desktops.
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VMware vShield Endpoint VMware vShield Endpoint allows you to offload key antivirus and anti-malware functions to a hardened, tamperproof security virtual machine, eliminating agent footprint. It optimizes antivirus and other host and endpoint security for use in VMware vSphere and VMware View environments. VMware Security Server This component of VMware View provides a secure way for remote users to access the View environment, over an unsecured WAN or over the internet.
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4. Getting Started
Resources
Download additional VMware self-service resources to help you install, congure and troubleshoot VMware View. Hear what our customers have to say. Read our case studies or attend a local VMware User Group.
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