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The VDIdealist - Avoiding the 7 Sins

And getting yourself on the path to Virtual Redemption

10X IT Productivity Webinar Series, Ep. 2

Sean Donahue

Chief Evangelist at RES Software

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Today’s Topics

• Why did you fall in love with VDI?

• The 7 Mortal Sins

• How to Find Salvation in your VDI

• What’s Your VDI Confessional?

#10xIT Ask your questions on Twitter for

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When I was Young

My Ideals

• Simplify Management

• Save on Desktop Devices

• Updates

• Every User/Every Use Case

• I didn’t know …

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Sin #1 - Bandwidth Glutton

1. Bandwidth has evolved and so has consumption

2. Are you compressed?

3. Hairpins are meant for hair

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Sin #2 - Know Thy Apps

• Application Behavior Issues • Too many applications amassed over 10 years

• Incompatibilities with Windows 7 / 8

• Incompatibilities with Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10

• Incompatibilities with App-V 4.x / 5

• Use ASS Tools • Citrix AppDNA

• RES Baseline Desktop Analyzer

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Identify Scoping

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Discover Scoping

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Sin #3 - Do Not Discard Users’ … Settings

• Revolting Users

• The days of users not being of importance are over

• Are your users wasted?

Time is Money $$$

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Sin #3 - Do Not Discard Users’… Settings

• Lessons in Cost Accounting

Minutes Wasted: 30

Work Days / Week: 5

Work Days / Year: @Sum(50*5) = 250

Time Wasted / Year @Sum (250*30) = 7500

In Hours @Sum (7500 / 60) = 125

FBC of Employee $100 / hour

Show Me The Money: $12,500 / employee / year

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Sin #4 - Don’t Be a Slave to Storage

• Save on storage was the promise • Thin Clients

• Persistence Problems Prevail

• Some sins are more expensive

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Sin #5 - Beware The Revolting User

• My Users are REVOLTING • If the user ain’t happy … Ain’t nobody happy

• Vote against you with their credit cards

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Sin #6 - Printing When Wandering Is Divine

• Just because you change location doesn’t mean

you should be denied • Change IP Subnet

• Change Floor

• Building

• WiFi BSSID

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Is it Just about Happy Users?

• Consistency is key to happy users

• Faster access is also key

• IT needs compliance and control

• Nirvana is providing the right IT services to the right

users in the right situation

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Context Awareness

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Location and Device Awareness

Examples:

• Network location

• OS type

• Application version

• USB storage

• Hardware spec

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Simplicity Is Heavenly

• Single management console

• Lightweight architecture

• Just a few clicks away

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Sin #7 – Do Not Brag About Your VDI

• Beware the serpent sales rep • VDI is not for every user

• VDI is not for every use case

… Embrace your perfect VDI

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Why did

you fall in

love with

VDI?

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Physical or Virtual

Operating System Application

Physical Install Physical Install

Server-based Computing Hosted Session-based

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure XenApp

Windows on a Stick App-V Streaming

Image Management Package Management

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Delivering Customer, Partner Success

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http://www.ressoftware.com/resources/case-studies

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Don’t hesitate to reach out :

Sean Donahue

Chief Evangelist

SeanDo@ressoftware.com

@SeanDo40

Questions? Comments? Concerns?

Thank you

for attending!

Stay tuned for the next episode of the

IT Productivity Webinar Series:

The VDIdealist – How Complexity Killed the VDI

http://www3.ressoftware.com/10xIT3.html

More Resources You’ll Receive Today:

1. RES Article: The Reality of VDI

2. Blog: The VDIdealist: Avoiding the Seven Sins

3. IDC Whitepaper: The Business Impact of WorkspaceVirtualization

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