Double-Take Flex – cut your costs with a new approach to managing and supporting desktops
Want the benefits of VDI, but having trouble justifying the cost? Think again with Double-Take Flex
The appeal of desktop virtualisation is that it promises to remove many of the pain points that exist around desktop management, support and deployment. Issues such as application deployment, OS migration and user support make desktops costly to manage, both in terms of time and money. Desktop virtualisation promises centralised control, less client-side installation work and easier management for IT.
However, getting beyond the hype and seeing where companies can actually benefit from VDI, desktops as a service or other desktop virtualisation techniques, is proving just as tricky, particularly for smaller businesses. How to create virtual desktops that are affordable, easy to manage and meet the needs of users? How to deliver the same level of experience as users get from their traditional desktops? And how to do this without huge changes in infrastructure and capital expenditure?
Double-Take Flex provides the benefits of desktop virtualisation and VDI but without the cost and complexity. By taking a different approach to delivering desktop images, Double-Take Flex offers a simple and affordable way to attain the management and support efficiencies that VDI promises.
Key benefits of Double-Take Flex:
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No need for additional server or hypervisor investment – just use your existing SAN, or Double-Take Flex can create an iSCSI SAN for you
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Provide personalised desktop environments to every user – without having individual images for each of them
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Reduce spend on support – boot from a clean image every time
Gartner estimates that enterprise customers typically spend £80.00 a month to fully manage a PC. This expense takes into account such things as desk-side IT visits, call centre support, and management costs. Using netBoot/i Workload Optimiiation can potentially reduce this expense to as low as £46 per PC.
(Cost valid at exchange rate of $1.5 - 12th May 2010)
To view a short animation on how it works: Flex - How it works
For a more detailed overview on Double-Take Flex including Pain Points, What It Is, How It Helps and How It Works please go to: www.doubletakeflex.co.uk