Virtualizing Windows applications and desktops in the data center or cloud has compelling security, mobility and management benefits, but delivering real-time voice and video in a virtual environment is a challenge. A poorly optimized implementation can increase costs and compromise user experience. Server scalability and bandwidth efficiency may be less than optimal, and audio-video quality may be degraded.
Enabling voice and video with a bundled solution in an existing Citrix environment delivers clearer and crisper voice and video than legacy phone systems. This solution guide describes how Sennheiser headsets combine with Citrix infrastructure and IGEL endpoints to provide a better, more secure user experience. It also describes how to deploy the bundled Citrix-Sennheiser-IGEL solution.
Modern enterprise IT teams are increasingly adopting cloud computing technologies as a foundational component of their strategy to deliver business value for internal stakeholders.
While public cloud infrastructures are often an initial launching point for experimenting with these environments, private cloud solutions are an attractive alternative due to their ability to meet specific functional and security requirements while extending comparable benefits. To truly realize the potential of these investments, however, organizations need to be able to instantiate their high value use cases via private cloud capabilities such as those offered by Stratoscale’s solution.
A critical area of responsibility for IT teams is that they identify appropriate solutions for line-of-business (LOB) applications to meet the requirements of the business units that they support. As part of this, they take on the ownership of deploying, managing, and accommodating the customization of these workloads as needed. Many applications capable of meeting LOB requirements today are packaged and delivered as web services due to the fact that these configurations offer multiple operational advantages including scalability and resiliency. In addition, they allow providers to meet demands from users that they be able to access application functionality seamlessly across their various screens including desktops and mobile devices. For IT teams, this translates into the need for deploying internal facing web services using their private cloud infrastructures.
As opposed to traditional desktop software which may be updated on an infrequent basis, web services engender a model where functionality is continuously under development. This implies that IT teams work closely with developers to ensure that application improvements are released to users in a methodical and timely manner. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines can be built to accommodate this interaction so that value created by developers can be rapidly and safely delivered to users in an iterative manner.
Desktop and application virtualization is one of the primary ways how businesses reduce CapEx and OpEx, improve time to market, efficiency, increase control, and expand connectivity. VDI enables users to now access their desktops hosted in a data center server as virtual machines, which can be accessed from laptops and thin clients. Although desktop virtualization has existed for many years, many implementers of the technology have discovered that significant hurdles need to be overcome to fully reap its benefits.This document defines a set of architectural blocks for building a multitenant, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in and application services on the Cloudistics platform.This document includes 2 major sections:
To deliver a desktop hosting solution, service provider partners can leverage Windows Server and the Windows Desktop Experience feature to deliver Windows users a highly performant application experience that is familiar to business users and consumers.
Many large enterprises are moving important applications from traditional physical servers to virtualized environments, such as VMware vSphere in order to take advantage of key benefits such as configuration flexibility, data and application mobility, and efficient use of IT resources.
Realizing these benefits with business critical applications, such as SQL Server or SAP can pose several challenges. Because these applications need high availability and disaster recovery protection, the move to a virtual environment can mean adding cost and complexity and limiting the use of important VMware features. This paper explains these challenges and highlights six key facts you should know about HA protection in VMware vSphere environments that can save you money.