Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Manage your desktop infrastructure by centralizing computing resources and providing a virtual desktop for users.
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A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provides users with virtual desktops and applications on their desktop computers or thin clients. They get direct access to data and features—stored and managed in the data center as if the applications were loaded on their local devices.

EMC Consulting can help you plan, design, and implement a next-generation desktop computing environment. This must be secure and always available yet flexible enough to meet the needs of your business.

Implementing a virtual desktop infrastructure requires more than the installation and configuration of virtualization software. A complete solution requires EMC’s expertise in desktop deployment, application virtualization, security, systems management, and data center infrastructure.
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Implementing VDI changes the way people work as well as the technology they use. EMC Consulting can help you to create a computing environment that addresses both technology and cultural changes. EMC Consulting helps you assess the viability of VDI solutions for your selected users.

We identify the key business challenges of the existing desktop computing environment and create a strategy and roll-out plan by user type, with each type having the appropriate configuration for their new desktop environments.

We also educate your managers and employees to build crossfunctional understanding of the strategic benefits that both physical and virtual desktop technologies can offer them.
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  • Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
    Reduce maintenance, improve system performance, decrease downtime, protect information, develop a virtualization strategy, and reduce the cost and complexity of your technical infrastructure.

Optimizing application delivery and management is a key component of any desktop initiative. Application packaging automates the process of delivering applications to the desktop.

EMC Consulting employs a team of onshore and offshore staff to identify the applications being used, analyze them for compatibility issues, create a detailed report, and plan to resolve any incompatibilities. We then leverage an offshore factory model to rapidly package the applications.

EMC Consulting can design a desktop deployment system that will distribute applications to the desktop using an existing systems management solution or through application virtualization. This will enable your organization to lower support costs and improve IT efficiency.
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  • Custom Application Development
    Develop a new application, enhance an existing one, or migrate to a new platform using Microsoft, Unix, or other technologies.
  • Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
    Reduce maintenance, improve system performance, decrease downtime, protect information, develop a virtualization strategy, and reduce the cost and complexity of your technical infrastructure.

EMC Consulting can design and implement the ideal virtual desktop environment that meets your needs. Ensuring scalability for the infrastructure is critical during the design process. We make certain that the server, storage, and network can all support the growing needs of your centralized computing resources.

EMC Consulting creates a deployment plan that's aligned with your business needs. We give careful attention to migration planning, communication, and user training to minimize impact on your operations.

Depending on your needs, we can also include a pilot phase for deployment and transition of the virtual desktop infrastructure process and ownership.
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  • Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
    Reduce maintenance, improve system performance, decrease downtime, protect information, develop a virtualization strategy, and reduce the cost and complexity of your technical infrastructure.

A robust desktop virtualization program needs to address a range of security and management concerns. These include security and patch management, client security policy, automated application deployment, and asset and configuration management.

EMC Consulting can design and deploy a desktop management solution that addresses these concerns. We can do this for both physical and virtual environments. We will:

  • Identify your needs
  • Evaluate existing tools
  • Design and deploy the desktop management solution
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  • Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization
    Reduce maintenance, improve system performance, decrease downtime, protect information, develop a virtualization strategy, and reduce the cost and complexity of your technical infrastructure.

For many companies, planning the transition to Microsoft Windows 7 has become an opportunity to reevaluate inefficient IT processes such as manual deployment of physical personal computers, managing multiple corporate images, extended testing cycles for patch deployments, and ensuring proper security levels.

The solution to these issues is to deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure. By leveraging this technology, companies can benefit from simplified provisioning and pooling methods to lessen the time spent deploying new systems. This improves the efficiency of both technology and personnel utilization.

EMC Consulting can help you deploy Microsoft Windows 7 software within a virtual desktop infrastructure. We’ll carry out the following:

  • Identify end user requirements.
  • Create the operating system image for users’ desktops.
  • Integrate with your systems management solution.
  • Design a secure user environment.
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