Riverbed Technology, the performance company, announced a solution preview at VMworld 2012, in partnership with VMware, that demonstrates high performance remote and branch office deployments of VMware View. The technology preview will showcase the delivery of local area networks (LAN) performance in distributed VMware View environments, including Branch Office Desktop (BOD) and Business Process Desktop (BPD) solutions, while preserving control in the data centre. The showcase combines Riverbed Granite edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI) with VMware View. This industry first builds on the August 2011 announcement to partner with Teradici to better address IT infrastructure performance problems, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments.
Inherent performance challenges with the wide area network (WAN), including distance, latency, limited and costly bandwidth, and unforeseeable outages, can result in a poor experience for the user of interactive applications and other IT services. Even with sufficient bandwidth, the challenges of too much latency or outages over the WAN can lead to poor application performance and the inability to smoothly deliver virtual services at remote locations.
VMware and Riverbed will showcase a combined solution that significantly reduces the effect of WAN latency, dramatically reducing the need for high-cost bandwidth and ensuring continuous operations in the event of a WAN outage. The combined solution delivers a high-quality experience for VMware View users, while at the same time reducing the operational and management costs for remote and branch offices.
Enabling successful VDI adoption
Finding a cost-effective and reliable way to manage end-users in the branch office has become a priority for many organisations. A growing number of organisations view the centralisation and management of branch environments through desktop virtualisation as an effective approach to streamline desktop and application management while reducing costs, improving security, meeting regulatory requirements, and increasing flexibility and productivity.
Enterprises have invested in larger and more costly redundant WAN connections, which may not provide end-users with a consistent experience, as interactive applications can still perform poorly over distance. In addition, local print and application servers that are not centralised with desktops in the data centre can slow end-user access to applications and data.
100% consolidation and LAN performance at the edge
Edge-VSI, enabled by the Riverbed Granite appliance, allows organisations to consolidate and manage all edge servers in the data centre. Edge-VSI extends centrally managed data to distributed end-users, enabling IT to fully consolidate branch servers, virtual desktops, applications and end-user data to the data centre, yet deliver services such as VDI to the edge as if they were local. With the VMware View BOD solution, organisations can centrally provision, manage, protect and project VMware View desktops to the branch for local connectivity - all at a lower total cost of ownership. This preview will demonstrate how organisations are enabled to maximise uptime, streamline desktop management and drive down operational costs.
The VMware View BPD solution provides the same benefits as the enhanced VMware View BOD solution but further extends high-speed performance for VDI by delivering desktops as a managed service to contact centre agents, offshore developers and outsourced workers. The enhanced BPD solution with edge-VSI and VMware View enables organisations to achieve complete control and consolidation and lowers infrastructure cost while giving end-users a highly responsive computing experience across networks and locations.
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