Windows 7 deployment planning is presenting organizations with many unique opportunities.

• Consolidate and get rid of unused applications.
• Improve security, compliance and reduce risk.
• Clean up and optimize active directory.
• Look at overall infrastructure manageability, cost and time to task.
• Evaluate end-user needs and system delivery options and the full asset lifecycle.

If yours is like most companies, reducing overall long-term management costs and complexity is probably a priority. In addition to looking at ways to more efficiently manage existing and traditional assets (desktops/laptops, etc.), you now have the added option of considering alternative end-user system delivery options such Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), offline/local VDI, terminal services, and application virtualization.

And this is where the new challenge as well as opportunity comes into play. Optimizing system delivery costs for most organizations means having a mix of user types and devices. Until now, trying to implement this type of optimized solution was difficult, complicated and hard to manage.

Quest has come up with an innovative set of products that allow companies to deploy different types of desktop virtualization solutions and manage them within a single console. This doesn't address the need to still do things such as image management and to optimize management of traditional systems, but it does provide organizations with options to leverage desktop virtualization technologies without adding huge amounts of cost and complexity.

Quest vWorkspace – "The Right Technology for the Right Use Case"

vWorkspace lets you deploy a blended model – pairing the appropriate technologies to users based on their unique needs while keeping the average cost per virtual desktop to a minimum. In a single solution set, vWorkspace provides choice and flexibility to simplify the deployment and management of desktop virtualization technologies. Choose from hosted VDI, Offline/Local VDI, Terminal Server/RD Session Host, Application Virtualization, and Blade PCs.

Quest vWorkspace MokaFive Suite is a local/offline VDI product that – when combined with Quest vWorkspace – allows you extend the corporate virtual desktop perimeter. That means you can affordably deliver desktops and applications to more employees. The MokaFive Suite is especially useful if you support users who are often disconnected from the corporate network. And with the power and convenience of local/offline VDI, you can also reduce costs by mixing and matching various desktop virtualization technologies for your diverse user base.

In addition, Quest vWorkspace provides device support for iPads and Android devices. Users can securely access virtual desktops and published applications from iPads, Android tablets, and cell phones. vWorkspace Connector for Android helps to reduce bandwidth consumption while enhancing the user experience.

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