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Webinar Series Part 4

• Introduce The IT Solutions & Services Team

• Solutions & Services Provided By The Team

• The Move to Virtualization

• Thin Client Specialist Philip Chambers

• Upcoming IT Solutions Webinars

• Questions

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Meet the Team

Armando Amador Team Lead, B2B Professional Services

Wesley Chambers Team Lead, B2B Professional Services

Jennifer Agress IT Business Consultant

Samantha Martinez IT Business Consultant

Tatiana Panzardi IT Business Consultant

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Management

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Recovery Virtualization

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Device

Management

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Top 4 Survey Findings

Source: State of SMB IT 1H 2013, Spiceworks Voice-of-IT

1. Budgets & Spending : IT budgets have

seen a dramatic boost in all but the

largest SMBs.

2. Cloud: Cloud-based and hosted IT

services have found a home in SMB.

3. Virtualization: Server virtualization has

reached new heights.

4. Mobile: Tablets are a quickly gaining

ground in SMB networks and budgets.


Primary Objectives for SMBs

Protect the business

• Business continuity

• Security

Keep IT simple

• SMBs need IT that

just works

Do more with less

• With limited resources,

and tight budgets

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What is Virtualization? Quick Overview

An application (Hypervisor)

that sits on top of resources

and storage that will be

pooled (shared) to maximize

efficiency and save space.

There are 3 main types of

virtualization.

• Server

• Desktop

• Storage


Physical World

1:1 relationship between applications and hardware

Relevant cost metric = cost per server

1 :1

Traditional x86 Architecture

• Legacy rule: Run only one application per server because single application crashes resulting in OS or server failure

• Typical hardware utilization below 8%

Many:1 relationship between applications and hardware

Relevant cost metric = cost per application

Virtual World

Many :1

Virtualization:

• New rule: Run multiple applications per server because OS/applications are isolated from one another

• Typical hardware utilization 80%

How does Virtualization Solve My Problems?


Virtualization saves money, energy, and space while

adding efficiencies.

But is it right for you?

Money: Reducing the number of servers you have to run,

means savings on hardware costs and energy needed to

run hardware and provide cooling.

Energy: Green technology preserving Earth’s Resources

How does Virtualization Solve My Problems?


Efficiency from IT: System administrators move toward a

proactive approach being able to engage in more strategic

administration tasks. Including facilitating delivery of

software products preinstalled in virtual machines.

Efficiency from hardware: Virtualization enables higher

utilization rates of hardware because each server supports

enough virtual machines to increase its utilization from the

typical 15% to as much as 80%.

Virtualization

Phil Chambers Thin Client Virtualization Specialist since 1995

Working in the IT industry for 30+ yrs


Thin Clients


Virtualization

An increasingly global and mobile workforce

• More than one-third of the world’s workforce will be mobile

by 2013 1

The Burden of Managing Distributed Desktops

• IT client-side support is 80% of the annual $1298 client

cost per user 2

The Impact of Security and Compliance Breaches

• Average annual cost per enterprise of stolen laptops $6.4

million 3 & 1 in 10 laptops is stolen; average cost per

stolen laptop is $50,000 3

End of life for Windows XP: 4/2014

• Migration planning should begin NOW!

1-need reference; 2-IDC, Understanding the Business Value of Centralized Virtual Desktops, need date; 3-Ponemon Institute, 2007 Survey

on Consumer Privacy *and* PGP Corporation and Ponemon Institute, 2009 Name of Study


Virtualization

Blade client

High performing thin

clients connect 1:1

to Blade PCs or

workstations in the

data center

Cloud Computing

Browser-based thin clients connect

easily to Web application solutions.

15

20 December

2013

SBC

Low cost, self-configuring

thin clients optimize task-

worker deployments

VDI

Flexible thin clients

deliver a complete PC

experience for any

industry-standard desktop

virtualization solution


Virtualization


Considering Thin Clients

Enhanced Security

Easier Manageability

High Reliability

Increased Energy Efficiency

Lower TCO

Centralizing


Increases security and control

Address new regulations and data security concerns

Protect data and corporate IP within the data center

Increase control of hardware and corporate images

Ensures business continuity

Relocate and/or reassign workforce without moving hardware

Disaster recovery from catastrophic failure via data center failover

Lowers support costs

Centrally manage all hardware and images

Standardize on data center disciplines & best practices

Increase software tracking and utilization

Increases IT & business agility

Rapid deployment and provisioning of hardware assets across lines of business

Provides flexibility for data, workforce, and administrative resource location

Compute Resources

TCO Savings by Category


Category Savings Rationale

Install/replace/ update/move (“IMAC”) 90% Thin Client (TC) at user desk; simple upgrades, rarely breaks, little need to move

Break/fix support 90% Desk side: TCs rarely break

Systems management 70% Radical image standardization and greatly simplified software (SW) deployment methodology

Power Consumption 70% TC has minimal power draw;

Help desk 50% Radical image standardization with minimal opportunity to change SW image, minimizes Help Desk calls

Training 40% Significant reduction due to simplified and radically standardized hardware and software

How-to support 40% Significant reduction due to simplified and radically standardized hardware and software

General operations 10% Due to ease of procuring and managing the centralized assets (i.e., blades).

TOTAL 70% Total % based on %s weighted by actual dollar amounts


Steps to Virtualize

1. Evaluate your current server workloads.

2. Define your system architecture.

3. Select your virtualization software and hosting

hardware.

4. Migrate your existing servers to the new virtualization

environment.

5. Administer your virtualized environment.


Challenges of Virtualization

1. Network Complexity

2. Network Storage

3. Sizing Storage Capacity

4. Back-up Challenges

5. Application Support

6. Skills

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