Lanamark Inc., a global provider of analysis and design solutions for virtualizing desktops and servers and optimizing physical and virtual infrastructure, today announced availability of the Desktop Analysis Pack for Lanamark Suite. This new analysis pack is designed to help solution providers analyze enterprise desktop environments, identify candidate desktops for virtualization and recommend optimal resource allocation to virtual desktops in order to maximize end user adoption and satisfaction.
"Our customers are looking for new ways to improve security, compliance and cost-efficiency of their desktop environments by leveraging our expertise in building desktop virtualization solutions with products from Citrix, Microsoft and VMware," said Jack Dawson, Executive Vice President at IQ Systems, a leading U.S. integrator in Reno, Nevada. "Design of virtual desktop infrastructure must be preceded with a thorough analysis of existing desktop workloads and software applications. The Desktop Analysis Pack enables us to perform such analysis and offer vendor neutral desktop virtualization solutions that maximize user productivity and return on investment."
The Desktop Analysis Pack distinguishes desktops from laptops to identify mobile users and determines associations between workstations and external devices such as monitors, printers and scanners. It leverages the Lanamark Software Intelligence (LSI) technology to recognize software applications installed versus ones actually used across the enterprise. The combined information about desktop hardware and software enables channel partners to identify desktops most suitable for virtualization, determine what type of thin client devices would be most appropriate for end users and recommend how software applications should be allocated to minimize licensing costs.
"We are very excited about using Lanamark Suite with the Desktop Analysis Pack to accelerate delivery of desktop virtualization assessment and design services to our customers," said Daimon Brown, Technical Director, Virtual Age, a leading UK integrator of virtualization solutions and technologies. "Lanamark Suite takes the guesswork out of capacity planning, enabling us to design cost-effective, highly optimized virtual infrastructure solutions, spanning both desktops and servers for our customers."
Once the analysis phase is completed and candidate desktops for virtualization are identified, solution providers can then leverage the Lanamark Server Virtualization Design Module to build optimal virtual desktop infrastructure solutions across leading virtualization and hardware platforms. The module allows what-if scenarios to be compared side-by-side with comprehensive TCO calculations and enables channel partners to build end-to-end solutions with server, storage and thin client components from Brocade, Dell, EMC, Emulex, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, QLogic, Sun Microsystems, Wyse and Xiotech.
“Desktop virtualization presents a tremendous opportunity for enterprises to reduce operational expenses while increasing availability, manageability and security of desktop infrastructure,” said Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark. “The Desktop Analysis Pack enables solution providers to efficiently analyze existing physical desktop infrastructure, profile desktop workloads and determine which software is installed and used on each desktop. In turn, this information can be applied to select desktops most suitable for virtualization, rationalize software licenses to reduce software costs and the risk of non-compliance, and right-size virtual desktop infrastructure to avoid under- or over-provisioning.”