Citrix VDI-in-a-Box

Reduce your PC-refresh budget by deploying virtual desktops instead of more expensive PC replacements—helping you save 60 percent in VDI infrastructure.

Eliminate IT dependencies with an intuitive management console that empowers Windows administrator to handle virtualization details so you don’t need storage specialists, network administrators or virtualization experts.

Cut desktop costs by centrally consolidating patching and management. Reduce ongoing PC replacement costs by lengthening the time between PC refresh cycles. Minimize infrastructure investment by scaling incrementally without needing to overprovision for key features like high availability.

Work anywhere on any device using Windows PCs, Macs, and smart phone and tablet platforms such as Apple, Android, HP and RIM.

Provide personalized desktops customized to each user’s preferences and profile.

 Deliver a high-definition experience with performance and access fine-tuned to match the capabilities of each connection and computing device.

 Reduce downtime with the ability to manage service levels via policies and a central desktop that is always available, even if a user’s PC is not.

Imagine virtually anything

Imagine virtually anything is collaboration of Cisco, NetApp and VMware. They have teamed up to create an industry-leading alliance: Imagine Virtually Anything. How does that translate into solutions and technologies that can be designed, deployed and can make your data centre ready for tomorrow? Through joint product development, integration, validation and documentation, the data centre solutions and technologies are ready for you, today.

vblock

In vblock it’s a collaboration of VMware, Cisco, and EMC. Vblock converged infrastructure platforms from VCE virtually eliminate the complexity that is inherent in traditional data center setups. The elegant simplicity starts the first time end-users engage with VCE. Instead of a handful of competing vendors with a myriad of components, specing a Vblock system is as easy as determining capacity needs. And that’s just the first benefit of converged infrastructure companies enjoy.

Enterprise-Class Performance and Capacity Management Made Easy

VKernel vOperations Suite simplifies virtualization management by visualizing, analyzing, remediating performance, capacity and cost issues detected in Hyper-V, RHEV (Q4 2011) and vSphere environments. The award-winning vOPS™ is unique in its use of a patent-pending Capacity Analytics Engine™ to deliver precise and actionable recommendations, ease of implementation, scalability, integration capabilities and quick time to value. vOPS installs as a single agent-less virtual appliance in 20 minutes and provides virtualized environments with a single pane of glass for virtualization management tasks.

VKernel vOperations Suite™

Key Features

• Single integrated virtual appliance for Hyper-V and VMware performance monitoring, optimization, chargeback, reporting and capacity planning with API access for VKernel data integration
• vOPS vSCOPE visually displays performance, capacity and cost health of all VMs in an environment, across multiple data centers and hypervisors, on one screen
• Smart Business Views that automatically group related VMs for reporting, operational tasks and user access control

Operational Benefits

• Maintain peak VM performance and eliminate firefighting caused by VM performance problems
• Optimize server and storage efficiency in virtual environments
• Assess current and future available capacity
• Streamline virtualization operations with API integration of capacity data into external applications
• Gain visibility into virtual infrastructure health and costs across multiple data centers and hypervisors

Business Benefits

• Reduce downtime and VM performance issues
• Improve confidence in virtualization infrastructure and accelerate virtualization roll out
• Decrease capital costs (server, storage and infrastructure) and operational costs(power, cooling and licensing)
• Enable virtual environment reporting for customers and management that can be embedded into external systems
• Gain cost visibility and chargeback capabilities for the virtual environment

Using this revolutionary approach, you can deploy edge services virtually in all your branch offices without having to deploy and maintain full-blown servers to run the applications, thereby delivering a branch-office-in-a-box solution to organizations. This minimizes the hardware needed at the branch office, enabling you to consolidate IT operations even further.

Riverbed Services Platform (RSP)

With the RSP, you can reduce complexity, cut costs, and simplify management, while simultaneously delivering essential local services. The RSP runs on most Steelhead appliance models to protect your existing investment and deliver better ROI.

RSP Feature Summary

• Advanced network rules capabilities
• Ability to add virtual disk space to packages
• Support for iSCSI targets from a hosted windows package
• Enhanced watchdog for higher availability
• Runs both the Steelhead Mobile Controller (SMC-VE) or Cascade® Sensor-VE
• Works virtually inpath
• Supports tested applications from a wide variety of category-leading products, as well as any VMware virtual machine

Branch offices it add so much values. The sizing of the product is based on the bandwidth of the branch office. Some briefing from Citrix site:-

Citrix – Branch Repeater

Citrix Branch Repeater accelerates, controls and optimizes services—desktops, applications and multimedia —for branch and mobile users. Branch Repeater, powered by SmartAcceleration and user-centric prioritization of XenDesktop, Branch Repeater evolves network-centric WAN optimization into a service-centric solution. With granular visibility, enhanced prioritization and control of service traffic, SmartAcceleration ensures brillant quality of experience (QoE) and availability while reducing bandwidth consumption and simplifying branch IT.

Comprising Branch Repeater, Branch Repeater with Windows Server, Repeater, Branch Repeater VPX and Repeater Plug-in for Citrix Receiver, this Branch Repeater product family addresses an array of enterprise acceleration needs. The AutoOptimizer engine that serves as the cornerstone of Branch Repeater architecture offers flexible deployment options: the Repeater Plug-in for Citrix Receiver accelerates service delivery to remote and mobile users, while the appliances support users in branch offices.

Smart Phones & Tablets to Work

Smart Phones & Tablets to Work

Last week I read the Toastmaster Magazine June 2011 edition. Article “Presentations TO GO!” Written by Dave Zielinski describing about couple of tools which useful for presentations and toastmaster speeches.  That is the thread I’m presenting here.

Applications which are supports smart phones & tablets. Those applications are very useful to work from smart phones & tablets. I’m listing those applications below.

• Keynote Presentation Design Software
• Documents to Go
• ThinkFree Mobile
• Prompster
• ProPrompter
• SpeechPrompter
• Dragon Dictation

Cloud Client Computing

Wyse Cloud Client Portfolio

1. Wyse Cloud Clients
   • Wyse Thin Clients – Sophisticated. Secure. Friendly. Performance with flexible functionality.
   • Wyse Zero Clients – Simple. Secure. Stingy. Performance with dedicated functionality.
   • Cloud PCs – Familiar. Performance. Improved. The PC, only better – with centralized OS, applications, and content.
2. Handhelds – Complete support for Apple iOS and Google Android smartphones and tablets viaWyse PocketCloud, the leading Mobile Cloud Software for enterprises and consumers.
3. Wyse Ultra-thin Firmware – Wyse ThinOS, Linux, Windows CE and Windows Embedded Standard– the most comprehensive, secure, scalable and reliable cloud client firmware suite in the industry.

Wyse Cloud Software Portfolio

1. Wyse Cloud Client Software
   • Wyse Zero™ – Cloud-based technology engine powering a new world of cloud-connected dedicated Zero Clients.
   • Wyse Mobile Cloud Software – Wyse PocketCloud, the leading cloud-based mobile app suite connecting you to your personal, private or public cloud from any handheld.
   • Wyse Cloud PC Software – Cloud-based software to cloudify your PCs, TCs, or VMs by centralizing their OS, apps and content in a private cloud.
2. Wyse Management Software – Secure. Scalable. Cloud-centric remote device management for the extended enterprise.
3. Wyse Virtualization Software – Delivering the best user experience and optimized performance for any cloud client deployment.

Virtual Desktop to Smartphone and Tablets

Now we have to work for how to deliver the desktop features to smart phones and tablets. Security and application delivery are key-points. Cortado Workplace is the central hub for your mobile requirements. Whether with smartphone, tablet, PC, Mac or notebook – Cortado Workplace allows round-the-clock access to your files and documents. Exchange them between devices and work on the go just as with your desktop PC. It supports all the smart phone and tablet platforms.

• iPhone & iPad
• BlackBerry
• Android
• Symbian

Key Features:-

• Seamless integration of smartphones and tablets
• Use of the existing IT infrastructure
• One solution for all mobile plattforms
• Maximum level of security
• Optimal operation for each device
• Multi-device support