BYOD enable your business with VMware Horizon View

In our current device centric environment, end users expect to be able to stay connected to their professional networks via mobile devices and that’s where this quarter’s software pick comes in. This quarter we have chosen to introduce you to VMware Horizon View, a software that provides an agile and adaptive approach to computing, enabling IT to balance business requirements with the needs of end users.

What is Horizon View?

Horizon View is complete solution for desktop and application virtualisation, brought to us by VMware.  Horizon View offers organisations the flexibility to meet the needs of a mobile and global workforce, all while maintain extremely high levels of security and control. This is done by placing all of your organisation’s desktops into one centralised managed service, keeping all your desktops in one place where you can easily manage and customise desktops to fit the needs of your end-users.

Transforming your desktops into virtual machines with Horizon View will simplify tasks such as troubleshooting and provisioning and will also dramatically reduce the cost of managing each user desktop.  In addition, as all of your data will be stored on virtual desktops your users will be able to access their personal settings and data from any device, in any location, making for better user experience and increased productivity.

Horizon View is made up of numerous components, such as:

• VMware vSphere Desktop (including vShield Endpoint)
• VMware vCenter Server Desktop
•  Horizon View Manager
•  VMware ThinApp
•  Horizon View Persona Management
•  Horizon View Composer
•  Horizon View Client

This combination of components allows Horizon View to provide you with secure, compliant and easily manageable virtual desktops throughout your organisation.

The Benefits

Desktop virtualisation with Horizon View offers numerous benefits to organisations of all shapes and sizes. These benefits include:

Horizon View is the only end-to-end solution that simplifies IT management, increases security and increases control of end-user access while decreasing costs by centrally delivering desktop services from your cloud. For more information about VMware Horizon View you can download the datasheet here, alternatively contact Andy on 01723 587240.  

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Server Virtualisation & how it could benefit you!

Server Virtualisation

What is Virtualisation?

Virtualisation is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. Virtualisation essentially lets one machine do the job of multiple machines, by sharing the resources of a single machine across multiple environments. Thus allowing for multiple virtual machines to run independently on the same physical machine, at the same time, with each virtual machine representing a complete system. Virtual servers and virtual desktops let you host multiple operating systems and multiple applications locally and in remote locations, freeing you from physical and geographical limitations.

What is Server Virtualisation?

Server Virtualisation is essentially the partitioning of a physical server into a number of smaller virtual servers, helping to maximize your resources. By enabling multiple ‘virtual servers’ to be run on a single or a reduced number of shared machines, server virtualisation dramatically reduces the number of physical servers required, in an organisation.

Why Virtualise your Servers?

Server Virtualisation offers numerous benefits for businesses, including; reducing costs, increasing efficiency, increasing server utilisation and centralising infrastructure management.

Server virtualisation has numerous features to offer organisations of all sizes, ultimately resulting in a range of benefits. While we have not covered all of the benefits here, as a VMware partner we have a vast amount of knowledge to share, so if you would like any more information please contact Andy Potts or David Philps on 01723 587240.

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How can vSphere transform your Business IT?

Vmware vSphere is the industry’s leading and most reliable virtualisation platform. vSphere separates applications and operating systems from the underlying hardware, so that your existing applications see dedicated resources, while your servers can be managed as a pool of resources. The end result is a business that runs on a simpler, more resilient IT environment.

vSphere Key Benefits include:

·         Business Continuity and always-available IT

·         Reduced IT footprint and simplified management

·         Drastically cuts hardware and datacenter running costs

·         Improved service levels and application quality

·         Strengthened security and data protection

vSphere is made up of numerous key components, including:

Vmware ESXi hypervisor architecture – a high performance virtualisation layer, enabling multiple virtual machines to share hardware resources, while maintaining high performance levels.

VMware vCenter Server – providing centralised management and performance monitoring for all virtual machines and vSphere hosts.

VMware vSphere VMFS – a key technology, allowing virtual machines to access shared storage devices and enabling other vSphere components, such as VMware vSphere Storage vMotion.

VMware vSphere Thin Provisioning – enables implementation of a tiered storage strategy and reduce storage spending by up to 50 percent.

VMware vCenter Update Manager – allowing for automated tracking, patching and updating of vSphere hosts, as well as applications and operating systems running in VMware virtual machines.

VMware VMsafe APIs – provides higher levels of security by enabling the use of security products that work in conjunction with the virtualisation layer.

vSphere High Availability – in the event of hardware or operating system failures, vSphere high availability provides cost-effective, automated restart for all applications, within minutes.

vSphere vMotion – eliminates the need to schedule application downtime for server maintenance, as vMotion enables live migration of virtual machines across servers with no disruption or service loss to users.

vSphere Data Protection – enables agent-less backups with built-in deduplication, to provide simple, cost-effective backup and recovery for virtual machines.

vSphere Endpoint – an agent-less antivirus and antimalware protection to keep all your virtual machines secure.

Why vSphere?

With vSphere your business can leverage a comprehensive and cost-effective virtualisation solution to protect your business, reduce your IT footprint and dramatically reduce your IT costs.

For more information contact Andy Potts on 01723 587240.

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