Control Desktops from the Data Center with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
With our Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI), you can host individual desktops inside virtual machines running in your data center. Our partnership with VMware gives your users access to desktops remotely from a PC or a thin client, using a remote display protocol. Applications are managed centrally. This means you have greater overall control. Installations, upgrades, patches and backups are done with renewed ease. All of this, plus a dramatic cost savings!
With VDI brought to you by Accelera, you can:
- Bring Offsite Security Back In-House
- Deliver Full PC Desktop Environments
- Achieve Standardization for Branches, Remote Works and Offsite Facilities
- Ease and Simplify Disaster Recover
- Secure Offshore Locations
Other benefits include?
Application Testing:
- Deployments, updates and testing are done in ONE place
- VDI means there's a SINGLE image to manage at the desktop
- Regression testing is virtually eliminated
Desktop Delivery:
- Faster, cheaper rollouts
- On-demand desktop provisioning
- Users get the appropriate desktop for their role
- Always having the latest OS (Vista)
- Users no longer need to call support
- Desktop applications always work like they're supposed to
Lifecycle Maintenance:
- Hardware independent
- Thin client compatible
- Get Vista today
- Decommissioning apps and desktops is as easy as flipping a switch
- Reduced installation and support costs
Read more about VDI's cost savings.
Washington Nationals Client Appreciation Day!
About 30 Accelera Solutions clients who joined us for a recent Virtual Desktop Infrastructure seminar were treated to box seats at a recent Nats game. Thanks for joining us for this fun event!
VDI is Bringing Dramatic Cost Savings to Our Clients
Here's how VDI from Accelera Solutions can mean savings for your organization:
- Analyst testing can be reduced by 50%.
- Upgrades deployed in half the time.
- Functional business users can test in production instead of dedicated test environment.
- Reduced PC refresh cycles:
- 1 PC = $700 x 1000 users =$700,000/year
- Typical cycle is 3 years
- 1 PC = $700 x 1000 users =$700,000/year
- See the chart below for a TCO comparison for unmanaged, typically managed and VDI desktops
*Graph courtesy of Citrix Systems.
Not yet upgraded to Citrix Presentation Server 4.5? Free upgrades are available now!
The migration path for Presentation Server upgrades is designed to preserve and maximize your investment:
Access suite - free migration to platinum
edition.
Standard edition - free migration to advanced
edition.
Up to the newest software version with current Subscription Advantage, services not included.
Talk to Accelera Solutions today about how you can upgrade.
Accelera Solutions Offers Training Courses for Citrix & ScriptLogic
We're pleased to announce Accelera Solutions training courses. These are held in our state of the art training facility in Falls Church, VA. Details on each course are available below.
CTX-1259AI Citrix Presentation Server 4.5:
Administration
July 23-27
This five-day instructor led course provides the foundation to
effectively deploy and administer Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 and
its components, including Load Manager, Installation Manager, Web
Interface, Application Streaming and Secure Gateway. Receive hands-on
training for installing Citrix Presentation Server and Presentation
Server Clients, and for using the various administrative consoles to
configure published resources, policies, individual server and server
farm settings, load evaluators, isolation environments, printers,
streaming applications and much more.
This course is intended for IT professionals, such as server, network,
systems and help desk administrators familiar with Microsoft Windows
environments. Systems engineers, analysts, consultants, and architects
are also appropriate candidates for this course.
Experience classroom lecture topics and the practical application of
Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 through demonstrations, practices, and
hands-on exercises.
ScriptLogic Desktop Authority 7.6
August 13-15
This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to manage desktops using Desktop Authority 7.6.
This course is intended for administrators of Windows-based desktops
using Desktop Authority 7.6. Prior to attending this course, students
must have experience with: Network Administration experience using
Microsoft NT /Windows Server 2000 / Windows Server 2003 and
administration experience with Windows Clients.
ScriptLogic Active Administrator 4
August 16
This one-day course, led by a certified Accelera Solutions
ScriptLogic engineer, provides the knowledge and skills to administer
Active Directory using Active Administrator.
This course is intended for administrators of Active Directory using
Active Administrator. Prior to attending this course, students must
have experience with:
- Network Administration using Windows Server 2000/2003
- Active Directory
Contact us about how you can upgrade. or 703-637-5057 to secure your spot or for more information on these courses.
Accelera Becomes Authorized VMware VAC
Accelera recently earned the distinction of VMware Authorized Consulting (VAC) partner. Our team consists of recognized specialists in virtual infrastructure and VMware technology.
This partnership enables our clients to leverage proven best practices in delivery of virtual infrastructure engagements. Other benefits include speeding time to market, increasing the quality of service delivery and mitigating risk with proven expertise.
VMware training will soon be available at Accelera's state-of-the-art training facility. Contact us to learn more.