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ENABLING A WORKPLACE OF THE FUTURE WITH VDI AS A SERVICEHPE and TCS
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THE NEW NORMAL FOR WORKPLACE PRODUCTIVITY
The current health crisis has forced organizations to enable remote working, creating a unique challenge for both frontend applications and underpinning back-end technologies. An increasing number of businesses are turning to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to support teleworking and unleash mobile productivity.
VDI is great way to empower remote workforce in healthcare (pop-up clinics and telemedicine), education (remote learning), enterprise (remote knowledge workers), and other sectors. But often, these organizations face multiple challenges such as engaging in a secure environment, scaling up the compute solution, quick deployment of VDI, and, importantly, shielding from the financial risks of a volatile market.
NAVIGATE CHOPPY WATERS WITH VDI AS A SERVICE FROM HPE AND TCS
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Tata Consultancy Services have joined forces to deliver a scalable, on-premises solution to address your VDI-related woes. It’s called VDI as a service. With this solution, you have an option of keeping your workloads on-premises, scale simply, and pay per user, per month—all managed by TCS. The big payoffs: accelerated adoption of workplace-as-a-service solution, cost savings, and reduced risks associated with your VDI transformation project.
VDI as a service can help eliminate the need to make huge upfront CAPEX investments. It’s much more cost-effective than public cloud compute models. That means, it’s easier for you to adopt a digital workplace without a big budget. What’s more, remote work setups can bring down your operating costs—reducing expenditure on rent, travel, and others required to run an office.
The hardware and software required to deliver these desktop experiences are deployed by HPE and TCS directly to your data center, keeping desktops close to applications and users. TCS supports, operates, and manages the platform for you.
A NEW MODEL TO HELP YOU BALANCE YOUR BUSINESS PRIORITIES
With its advanced capabilities, VDI as a service delivers a range of business benefits, some readily quantifiable and others more intangible but just as real. With VDI as a service from HPE and TCS, you can:
• Ramp up your VDI infrastructure in an agile way—start with 300 users and scale to several thousands
• Get high availability with a resilient architecture
• Benefit from 24x7 operations with committed service levels—completely managed by TCS
• Gain true consumption-based pricing with capacity buffers and the ability to ramp the infrastructure up or down, and avoid costly overprovisioning
• Realize a seamless end-user computing transformation for minimal user service impact with the proven TCS Secure Borderless Workspaces™ (SBWS™) solution
• Get committed TCO savings, enhanced user experience, and choice of devices—tablets, smart phones, thin clients, or personal computers
• Achieve a highly reliable environment with complete control over the hardware, software, and data
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TCS MAKES VDI ACCESSIBLE AS A SERVICEA market leader in digital workplace services, TCS supports businesses across the globe. VDI is an integral part of its services portfolio. TCS supports all leading VDI technologies available today—Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VMware Horizon® View, Microsoft Azure Windows Virtual Desktop, Amazon WorkSpaces, Nutanix Xi Frame, and others.
The Digital Workplace Services—with TCS’ SBWS™, a transformative operating model framework that allows you to make the most of your talent ecosystem to maximize your business opportunities—portfolio includes:
• Assessment and transformation of existing workplace infrastructure
• Consult, design, deployment, and management of workplace infrastructure
• Various other products and solutions that complement and enhance the existing workplace solutions across monitoring, self-healing, automation, digitization, performance improvement and optimization, and others
SBWS™ leverages TCS investments and incorporates the learnings and best practices in network management, a standard service delivery environment, cloud-enabled governance processes, rational use of digital collaboration tools, and TCS Managed Security Operations Center benchmarked to the best in the industry.1 SBWS™ improves velocity, throughput, and productivity. In addition, TCS has a wide experience in large-scale hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) or converged infrastructure (CI) VDI deployments. Along with partners, TCS can help you build an as-a-service model with a hybrid strategy.
TCS VDI includes user analytics accelerators, technology labs, and automation accelerators. TCS has a large pool of certified VDI architects with a 300+ customer base and 2500+ VDI support team. If you’re looking for capabilities such as self-heal, self-service, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) in your VDI solution, TCS Digital Workplace Studio is perfect for you. This integrated platform is based on the ONE principle:
• Zero-touch IT (O): Proactive incident resolution and service request automation
• Next-generation workplace (N): Augmenting analytics insight on device and application performance; driving evergreen IT
• Experience (E): Empowering users with omni-channel support for self-heal and self-service capabilities enhances experience index
FIGURE 1. The TCS VDI offering
SaaS model
No more upgrades, built-in Citrix expertise, and one console
Hyperconverged
Reduce cost compared to
traditional hardware
AIOps
Root-cause analysis for operations issues with
self-heal
Digital experience
Health check, performance, and SLA management
Voice-first
Faster than typing with 99% accuracy
IT asset management
Integration with ServiceNow, BMC, and
CA Ventures
OPEX model
Consumption-based model
One-click management
Storage, cluster, VM, and network
management
One-click Ops insight
Capacity trend and optimization advisor
Hypervisor independent
Run on VMware®, Nutanix AHV, Xen,
and Hyper-V
Agile execution
Deploy apps and desktops in hours, not weeks
Multicloud
Choice to deploy on any cloud
or infrastructure
Security
Your apps and data where you
want them
Operations
Less technical expertise
required to setup and administer
Cost
Less up-front investment
VDI
Big Data AIOpsMachine Learning
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TCS now offers a catalog-based offering to help you choose and align profiles per your requirements. TCS caters to a diverse range of engagements—from large retail houses in the U.S. and a large financial organization with global presence to a leading consumer packaged goods (CPG) organization—and has credible experience in catalog-based solutions. You have the option to pick and choose a catalog with Lakeside SysTrack digital experience monitoring or a similar benchmarking tool in your environment.
Figure 2 represents the TCS sizing guideline based on benchmarks from vendors and processor manufacturers. It illustrates the approximate nodes or boxes required for production with ready-to-go solutions.
The TCS VDI catalog categorizes VDI users based on usage patterns analyzed across its large installed base. TCS helps you identify your initial requirements and start your VDI deployment in a phased manner.
HPE TECHNOLOGY IS THE MAINSTAY OF VDI AS A SERVICE
VDI as a service from HPE and TCS leverages several leading cloud-computing technology platforms from HPE, including:
1. HPE ProLiant rack servers: Rapidly deploy VDI solutions shipping immediately using channel-stocked and distributor-integrated ready-to-ship products. With HPE ProLiant rack servers, you get:
a. Optimization: Select a virtualization workload profile and server resources are automatically optimized to match the workload
b. Automation: Resolve IT issues automatically with HPE InfoSight predictive analytics AI and HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) 5
c. Next-generation performance: Second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family with up to a 61% performance gain and 27% increase in cores2
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FIGURE 2. The TCS VDI catalog categorization
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Applications
Microsoft Office 2016 Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; Adobe Acrobat, photo viewer,
browser, and PDF writer
Microsoft Office 2016 Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel; Adobe Acrobat, photo viewer, PDF writer, and 360p movies
Microsoft Office 2016 Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel;
Adobe Acrobat, and high-quality video
development code and jobs running on machine
Graphics-intensive applications
Desktop compute2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM,
and 50 GB Disk2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM,
and 50 GB Disk4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM,
and 100 GB Disk4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM,
and 100 GB Disk
OS and storage Windows 10/all-flash Windows 10 Windows 10 Windows 10
Hardware HPE Rack Servers/HPE Synergy/HPE SimpliVity/HPE Moonshot/HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
VDI Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops or VMware app or desktops
Add-onsFile, print, patching, antivirus, backups, third-party profile management, monitoring, AIOps,
application virtualization, disaster recovery, network, and others
Model Task worker Knowledge worker
Sessions 59 to 74 sessions 56 to 67 sessions
OS Windows 2016 with RDS Windows 2016 with RDS
Counter/reception personnel Marketing/management users GraphicsApplications developer/HPC
+ 16x5 or 24x7 Support
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Task worker Knowledge worker Performance user Power worker
2x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4214 12C 85W 2.2 GHz Processor (24 cores), 16 x 32 GB DDR4 Memory module, 2 x 1920 GB 2.5" SSD
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2. HPE Synergy: Highest user density for VDI and server-delivered applications—more VDI sessions per rack unit.3 HPE Synergy offers:
a. Flexibility: Ability to repurpose GPUs from display to compute mode programmatically to accelerate AI inferencing applications for diagnostics, radiology, drug interaction, and billing anomalies
b. Fully automated server: Virtual machines (VM) and operating system (OS) management-integrated RESTful API, VMware vCenter®, and VMware vSphere® integration
c. Support: For all major VDI and application virtualization vendors including Citrix XenApp, Microsoft, and VMware Horizon remote desktop session host (RDSH) application
3. HPE Moonshot: Efficient system-on-chip design provides best performance per dollar and per watt. Benefit from:
a. Performance per dollar: Independent small nodes of high-clock speed Systems on a Chips (SoCs) reduce acquisition costs by up to 79% compared to traditional platforms4
b. Performance per watt: Low power SoCs with integrated solid-state drives (SSDs) and workstation GPUs consume 88% less power than traditional rack solutions5
c. Density: Packs up to 45 SoCs into one chassis, delivering 360 cores in just 4.3 rack units
4. HPE SimpliVity: Rapidly deploy VDI solutions using channel-stocked ready-to-ship products. It is:
a. Intelligently simple: Centrally manage edge to core from a single interface; update software, hypervisor, and firmware with one click; diagnose 86% of issues before they happen with HPE InfoSight6
b. HyperEfficient: 90% capacity savings across primary and secondary storage; mitigate data loss with built-in data protection; restore 1 TB VM in less than 60 seconds—guaranteed7
c. Edge-optimized: Achieve high availability for each site with only two nodes; simplify remote office/branch office (ROBO) or edge site control with centralized management; backup VMs and automate edge-to-core off-site disaster recovery
5. HPE Nimble Storage disaggregated HCI (dHCI): Deploy the flexibility of converged and the simplicity of HCI while leveraging existing HPE ProLiant servers. It is:
a. Intelligently simple: Automated and on-demand full-stack intelligence and policy-based automation for VM-centric management
b. Absolutely resilient: 99.9999% data availability, all-flash speed, and sub-ms latency for always-on applications8
c. Efficiently scalable: Grow compute and storage independently, extend across hybrid cloud, with industry-leading data efficiency9
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6. Backup, recovery, and protection for your VDI: HPE has a trio of partners to help protect your VDI with proven, cloud-integrated data protection solutions that can be deployed quickly. Our partners include:
a. Commvault: HPE and Commvault deliver an integrated, end-to-end data protection solution to enhance business continuity and resilience
b. Zerto: Provides perfect VDI use for data mobility, continuous data replication of VMs, and ransomware protection
c. Veeam: A global leader in data management for the hyper-available enterprise
HPE GREENLAKE FOR VDI
Reliable and efficient, the HPE GreenLake VDI solution is simple to buy and designed for rapid deployment. With this solution, you can support a wide range of user requirements, align costs to users as you pay per desktop, and scale seamlessly when you need to.
The HPE GreenLake VDI solution provides the benefits of on-premises security and performance with the flexibility and simplicity of the cloud. And with built-in services and simplified billing, you can move fast without the heavy up-front cost. Benefit from:
• Hardware and software installed in your own environment
• Simplified design, migration, and management leveraging deep VDI expertise and tools
• Services to meter, monitor, and manage capacity ahead of demand
• Seamless scalability to respond quickly to the needs of the business
ACCELERATE YOUR SUCCESS WITH HPE AND TCS
For over three decades, HPE and TCS have worked together to drive your digital transformation journey with technologies that are agile, automated, intelligent, and on the cloud. Together, they facilitate successful joint go-to-market solutions by strategizing globally and executing locally. HPE and TCS complement each other in technology leadership with agile delivery models, R&D investments, repeatable solution assets, and a flexible resource base. And, combine their proven infrastructure solutions with the expertise delivered by enterprise or solution architects, service professionals, and administrators.
Navigate uncertainty and maintain remote productivity with VDI as a service from HPE and TCS. Find new ways to thrive in an ever-changing landscape of unknowns.
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About Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that has been partnering with many of the world’s largest businesses in their transformation journeys for the last fifty years. TCS offers a consulting-led, cognitive powered, integrated portfolio of business, technology and engineering services and solutions. This is delivered through its unique Location Independent Agile delivery model, recognized as a benchmark of excellence in software development.
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