KnowledgeCentrix Data Sheet
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"With more than 35 offices Nationwide and a need to improve our network speed, KnowledgeCentrix was the perfect choice."
--Vice President
International Distributor of Electronic Components
Virtualization
Virtualization is the industry standard for data-center and server consolidation.
This software technology enables your business to do more with the computer
hardware you already own, with additional benefits such as disaster recovery
and reduced technology costs. When you think about doing more with less, and
spending less to do it, you're thinking about virtualization.
Talk to your technology advisors and they will tell you that
you have many choices when
selecting virtualization
strategies for your
business. Major providers
including Microsoft,
Citrix, and VMware
offer very competitive
solutions, with great
strengths so choosing
between them requires
extensive research, experience
and expertise.
Let KnowledgeCentrix
help you make those
decisions. We analyze
and identify your business challenges
and employ our extensive knowledge of all the best
choices to recommend the best combination of hardware, software and services
to empower you to provide your people with the personal computing power they
need to drive maximum results for the company while you spend less than you've
ever spent doing so.
KnowledgeCentrix has chosen to make the deep investments in training and
certification on all of the technologies from Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware for
Server, Application, and Desktop virtualization. This allows us to provide you
with impartial, objective analysis of your company's specific needs to enable
intelligently supported decisions as to which to select and how to combine them.
Add to that our exhaustive study of the many providers of utility software that add
powerful management and functional benefits, and you have a powerful partner to
ensure that your company's virtualization strategy is achieved using the most cost
effective products.
Desktop Virtualization
If your IT support people are complaining about every user in the company and how they have changed the configuration of their computer, so much so that, they have to spend hours just figuring out what's going on before they can provide any support you don't need a stopwatch to tell you how unnecessarily high your support costs are getting. When you "virtualize" desktop computers all the intelligence, all the software, all the configuration information resides somewhere other than on that computer, so your people really can't make permanent changes that ruin everyone's day. There's nothing in their computer to reconfigure or change and the reduction in support costs will make your day!
As more companies move from bricks to clicks, they want to provide their remote users with an experience that is similar to what they are accustomed to when working in the corporate office, while maintaining the security of one of your organization's most important assets: your corporate data. By delivering "virtualized" desktops you are actually continuing to have the "computing" done at the corportate network, while delivering an enhanced user experience. The same desktop, the same applications, the same responsiveness, wherever your users may be accessing from, on whatever device they may be using – desktop, laptop, tablet or other.
Desktop Virtualization also extends the life of your laptop and desktop computers. As new software comes out, demanding faster processors and more memory, your users will still be able to use their existing computers because the actual processing is taking place elsewhere!
Server Virtualization
Yesterday you needed another server for each major process you wanted to run for your company. Today, you can consolidate dozens of widely differing functions into fewer servers, and fewer servers mean:
- Less electrical power to pay for
- Less real estate to house less equipment
- Less air conditioning to keep fewer hardware devices cool
If that all sounds like a mouthful, remember that it's a mouthful of hard dollar savings for your company, and a truly powerful increase to your bottom line!
Application Virtualization
You've seen it yourself, some applications just run slowly on remote laptops. This usually happens because the tremendous databases of information your applications use have to be pulled across slower remote connections to your local computer. When you do the processing at the corporate office or datacenter and just deliver the results to the remote user, you achieve significant speed gains. Since time is money, reducing the idle time your people spend waiting for slow remote applications saves money. Lots of it.