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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 PB’s 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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How do I effectively
migrate to Windows 7?
How can I preserve and extend my
existing investments?
How do I
manage costs?
How do I keep my
data safe and
applications 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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Summary
New Servers 3
Consolidation Ratio 5:3:1
Consolidation 16
Server
Count
Rack Units Annual Energy
Cost
Energy Use
(kWh/yr)
Heat Dissipation
(BTU/yr)
Processor (%) Memory (%) Disk Space (%)
Source Server 18 19 3097.76 20651.7 70395360 19.6 63.0. 40.3
Target Servers 3 6 1576.80 10512 35845923 26.9 41.6
Change -10 -13 -1520.96 -10139.7 -3459440 7.3 -21.3
Change (%) -76.9 -68.4 -49.1 -49.1 -49.1
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Industry average for average CPU utilisation
6-8%
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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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Project
Initiation
Assess &
Analyse
Design &
Financials
POC &
Pilot
Review Implement
Project Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Firstly not all desktops are candidates
Don’t 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, don’t forget it.
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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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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
Analyze the assessment
Establish your Reference Architecture
Understand your Financial Model
Develop Business Case for Virtual Desktop
POC/Pilot
User Involvement is key
Sponsorship is critical
Communication is paramount
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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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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
• Don’t shy away from datacentre licensing – it maybe your new friend:
• Windows 2008 Datacentre Edition
• SMS’d
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.