Connect with Experts
In this edition of Connect with Experts, Cisco’s Bob Fosina and PC Connection’s Tony D’Ancona discuss the challenges of desktop virtualization and how Cisco with Intel® Xeon® processors are integrating technologies to help organizations overcome those challenges. Bob Fosina is Partner for Development Management for UCS at Cisco. He shares how Cisco’s architecture is helping IT managers simplify management, scale virtual desktops, and expand their virtual infrastructure. Tony D’Ancona is Vice President of Professional Services for PC Connection, Inc. He explains the best ways to get your virtualization initiative going—with help from the PC Connection family of companies.
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Q: WHAT IS YOUR DEFINITION OF DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION WITH CISCO SERVERS?
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A: [Fosina] Desktop virtualization has been out on the streets for a while, but with the rise of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, virtualization has become more pervasive in the IT market. IT departments have had some challenges trying to fi gure out how best to manage growth in and around virtualization. Cisco’s unifi ed computing system really was built with virtualization in mind. And whether it was server virtualization or desktop virtualization, what it really came down to was having a modular approach, as that makes it easier to expand in the
future, as you need to. Cisco’s architecture will allow you to grow easily and seamlessly without fear of making mistakes.
A: [D’Ancona] It’s about moving control to the data center, so you can easily deal with security, especially in your remote locations, and more effi ciently manage those diffi cult images by hardware type.
Q: WHAT ARE SOME COMMON CHALLENGES WHEN IT COMES TO DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION? HOW IS CISCO HELPING ORGANIZATIONS OVERCOME THOSE CHALLENGES?
A: [Fosina] One of the biggest challenges is the high acquisition costs, which typically occur because, in a production environment, you need the ability to move parts around if something goes wrong. Often, most organizations over-engineer because of the way budgets are done, which causes the costs not to match the actual need, and then it doesn’t look good from an ROI perspective. Other challenges include system complexity and management issues.
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What Cisco is really saying with its architecture is that what you really need is good enough. Cisco’s technology developed architecturally so that applications do not need to depend on the underlying hardware components. If you switch to a new system with a diff erent type of CPU, with Cisco’s architecture, everything will still run properly.
A: [D’Ancona] There are some exciting things that have come out with VMware’s Horizon View product. Things
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