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IGEL Thin Clients and Virtual Desktops: Perfect Synergies at Minimal Cost IGEL Thin Clients and Virtual Desktops: Perfect Synergies at Minimal Cost IGEL Universal Desktop Thin Clients and Virtual Desktops (VDI) offer outstanding benefi ts: Set up your IT workstations effi ciently and exactly as you want them Increase the productivity of your personnel Manage your entire thin client environment centrally from one location Increase the security and availability of your enterprise IT Cut your annual IT costs – starting with only fi ve workstations Thin client computing with virtual desktops – both standardized and fl exible at the same time! Thin client computing with IGEL Universal Desktops and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) is an unbeatable combination; it's fl exible and effi cient as well as secure and economical. You can have the right desktops available for your users at any location. What's more, you can do all this without having to sacrifi ce the convenience and security of a centralized computing environment. VDI allows you to standardize your desktops with commonly used desktop pools or by desktop cloning. Beyond this, you can even provide high-performance workstations for knowledge workers or power users, such as those for use in R&D or in graphic, web and product design – including CAD applications, image editing and graphic-design layouts. In view of these new and powerful options, the IT-sector analysts at Gartner predict that the market share of virtual hosted desktops will grow to 40 % by 2013. IGEL’s VDI Strategy: more freedom to configure things exactly the way you want them IGEL Universal Desktop thin clients closely follow the roadmaps established by leading providers of virtualization technology, such as VMware®, Citrix® and Microsoft®. Our core competency is provisioning these solutions in an economical and fl exible manner that is both easily managed and secure. IGEL thin clients support numerous connection brokers such as VMware View™, Citrix XenDesktop™ as well as the SPICE Device (open source) and hypervisor-independent solutions like Leostream®, Quest Software® vWorkspace and Ericom® PowerTerm WebConnect, which are compatible with all commonly used hypervisors, includ- ing Citrix XenServer™, Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and VMware ESX Server™. IGEL supports VDI in all three thin client operating sys- tems: IGEL Linux, Microsoft® Windows® Embedded Standard and Microsoft® Windows® CE. Industry leading hardware and software IGEL has a broad range of models for use in accessing VDI environments, including standard desktop thin clients and integrated LCD units, as well as software for convert- ing standard PCs into thin clients. The powerful hardware featured in the IGEL Universal Desktop model series allows you to deploy virtual desktops in all areas of your business enterprise. Rich Multimedia: IGEL Universal Desktops support multimedia accelera- tion for VMware View™ 4 and PCoIP as well as Citrix HDX™. Local decoding and integrated codecs help to relieve the workload on central IT resources and the system network. For the greatest user convenience and easiest operation, IGEL thin clients also support the respective virtual appliance modes offered by various VDI provid- ers. A well-designed, future-ready investment: In addition to being certifi ed by VMware® and Citrix®, IGEL Universal Desktops also feature extra RAM and fl ash memory. The best user experience in all VDI environments IGEL thin clients in the Universal Desktop model series bring the latest improvements in leading VDI solutions directly to users, with no compromises. Everything that you need for perfect VDI access is already integrated and ready to go! With the compatible fi rmware package from IGEL, you will need no additional software. Especially in VMware®- and Citrix®-based environments, you will enjoy maximum performance when it comes to speed, USB peripherals, multimedia and audio. Furthermore, IGEL's fi rmware packages offer additional helpful software features, such as SPICE and NoMachine NX (for Linux-based VDI), a web browser with a Java environment (e.g. for cloud-computing services) and an SAP GUI. Case Studies: Software development without PCs! A new VDI/thin client infrastructure with VMware View 4™ has improved productivity and cut annual IT costs at IGEL Technology's own R&D location in Augsburg, Germany. At IGEL's own R&D facilities in Augsburg, all servers and desktops are virtualized by means of VMware vSphere 4™. The provisioning and managing of the virtual desktops is handled by VMware View™ 4, PC-over-IP (PCoIP) and IGEL Universal Desktops. In addition to its standardized and integrated server solution with server and SAN layers, including a management unit and a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system, IGEL Technology is now mostly deploying IGEL UD5 (LX and ES) units at those workstations used for the more demanding tasks associated with software development. These IGEL UD5 (LX und ES) units are also being used in parallel as softphones for VoIP service. This whole package of consolidation measures has cut IT power consumption at the location by over 40%. What’s more, the investment in server hardware, software licenses and new thin clients will already pay off in only 27 months. “In our latest fi rmware packages featuring VMware View™ 4, we’re passing along improved performance directly to our customers,” states Florian Spatz, Product Marketing Manager at IGEL Technology. “Even today, the TCO of VDI environments with thin clients is signifi cantly less than that of comparable environments based on conventional physical PCs. The new software generation from VMware will accelerate the ROI even further and increase the demand for compatible thin clients.” Virtual desktops really prove their worth in daily offi ce routines The defacto call center is employing a VDI strategy for provisioning IT applications. Citrix XenDesktop™ and IGEL Universal Desktop thin clients are simplifying system administration and lowering operating costs. “The advantage that thin clients with virtual desktops has over physical PCs lies in the benefi cial standardization effects and the lower costs for maintenance, administration and support,” explains IT manager Thomas Dürst. "Thanks to the lower costs for system maintenance and the standardized desktop structure, the higher up-front investment costs for the server system and the licenses for Windows Vista Enterprise Centralized Desktop (VECD) will balance out after only three years." Dürst also points out that managing PCs is signifi cantly more involved than caring for thin clients due to the numerous security and system patches that have to be separately installed on each and every PC. He notes that “thin clients only need a fi rmware update now and then; otherwise, they run with great stability. Besides, the service life of thin clients is at least fi ve years, whereas even three-year-old PCs start to need increasing attention due to hardware problems.” An overview of the most important virtualization technologies: Below you will fi nd short descriptions of the most important VDI approaches. Each one of them is fully supported by IGEL Universal Desktops. Microsoft® VDI Microsoft VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) offers an alternative provisioning model to the terminal services of Windows Server™ 2008 R2. The user has access to a personal desktop via an end device with VDA license authorization. The global offer of Microsoft VDI Standard Suite and Microsoft VDI Premium Suite includes the scalable and stable high-performance hypervisor Hyper-V Server™ 2008 R2, the integrated management suite Microsoft System Center including Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 as well as technologies for application virtualization including Microsoft RemoteApp™. The dynamic desktop provisioning occurs via Citric XenDesktop™ or the integrated VDI connection broker from Windows Server 2008 R2 as part of the new platform for Remote Desktop Services (RDS). So both released and personalized desktops can be made available. Citrix XenDesktop™ Citrix XenDesktop™ is part of the Citrix Delivery Center, and, thanks to its Citrix FlexCast and HDX technologies, can meet the needs of all desktop scenarios encountered in an enterprise environment. In this case, the virtual desktops are generated from three layers: the operating system, the applications and the user profi le. XenDesktop™ also contains Citrix XenApp™, which is used to virtualize applications and serve as an offl ine solution for mobile users. In addition to XenServer, Microsoft® Hyper-V™ and VMware ESX™ hypervisors are also supported. With FlexCast, hosted shared desktops, VM-based VDI desktops, hosted blade-PC desktops, streamed local desktops and local VM-based desktops can all be provisioned. Among other things, HDX technologies allow multimedia streaming including fl ash support, real-time teamwork via VoIP and webcams, USB and multi-monitor support and provisioning of 3D graphics applications such as CAD/CAM. VMware View™ including PCoIP VMware View™ is based on the VMware vSphere™ virtualization platform and, using VMware View Composer, dynamically assembles desktops and applications as a managed service. Desktop operating systems, applications and user data are each encapsulated in their own dedicated layers and can be independently managed as needed. Desktop images are derived from a master image based on linked-clone technology. Along with the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), VMware View™ supports the PC-over-IP protocol (PCoIP), which employs dynamic bandwidth allocation to provide signifi cantly greater speed than RDP.
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