Because traditional desktop management carries a high cost,
businesses are rethinking how desktops are deployed and managed.
The usual life cycle consists of desktops being purchased,
deployed, repaired, patched, upgraded, and ultimately, recovered
and disposed of. The care and maintenance make up more than 70% of
the total cost of ownership of a desktop environment.
Bayside Solutions can assist you with bringing together secure
virtualization and server technologies, enabling an efficient way
to serve your business needs. With industry leading methodology,
server virtualization and consolidation reduce desktop management
thereby reducing costs.
As a leader in security, we offer your organization assistance
with:
- Securing sensitive data to meet regulatory compliance
requirements
- Increasing ROI through desktop standardization and reduced
power consumption
- Centralizing management and control; reducing the time required
for deployment and maintenance
- Providing network and data access for remote and outsourced
employees
With virtualization, companies can host individual desktops
inside virtual machines running in the data center on more
reliable, fault-tolerant industry-standard servers. Users access
these desktops remotely from a PC or thin client using RDP (remote
desktop protocol). Since applications are managed centrally within
the corporate data center, organizations gain better control over
their desktops and data. Operating systems and application
installations, upgrades (ex. Windows XP to Windows Vista), patches
and backups can be completed in the data center, and then easily
deployed to the end-users without visiting individual desktop
systems. This allows for easier management of specific needs for
certain users, as well as global changes and updates for all
users.
Virtualization empowers companies, both large and small, to
realize multiple benefits from this new model of desktop deployment
and management. These benefits include:
- Lower acquisition cost
Thin clients deliver the exact same user experience as a dedicated
PC, including customizations like wallpaper and user-defined
dictionaries, but at a much lower acquisition cost, while reducing
power consumed by up to 50% versus traditional PCs.
- Lower management costs
In addition to faster deployments and repairs, easier remote
management translates into less time required to maintain a growing
desktop environment. With the ability of reducing total cost of
ownership by up to 35%, it is no surprise that desktop
virtualization has been called the "future of the corporate
PC."
- Security and reliability
Desktop virtualization centralizes sensitive data on an easily
managed, reliable and secure server. For example, if a thin client
laptop is lost or stolen, security is not compromised as sensitive
data is not actually stored on the client laptop; the thin client
is simply the means for accessing data in the data center through
an authorized users login and password. Virtualization is ideal for
offsite facilities used for development, call-centers, order
processing and other transaction-based tasks and allows
confidential information and intellectual property to be accessible
to remote facilities without compromising the security of that data
stored and maintained in the corporate data center.
- Flexibility
Virtualization facilitates dynamic management of users, data
access rights, desktop resources (CPU and memory) and application
usage. User access can be tracked and users may log in from any
thin client, rather than assigned workstations only; the ability to
leverage roaming profiles ensures a consistent and personalized
desktop experience every time.
- Compliance
Virtualization enables organizations to move sensitive data, which
is typically stored on a PC, into the corporate data center in
order to maintain data integrity and meet regulatory compliance
requirements (e.g., HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and
Gramm-Leach-Bliley).
- Management
Organizations with branch offices and remote employees can manage
their desktop environments and applications in the corporate data
center, where backups, upgrades, and complete maintenance can be
performed from one central location, reducing or eliminating the
need to send IT administrators on-site.
- Disaster Recovery
Complete desktop environments are encapsulated inside virtual
machines and maintained in the corporate data center where they can
be instantly recovered and redeployed in the event of a
disaster.
