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Expand, Innovate and Save with Virtualization Solutions from Derive Technologies™

Derive Technologies’ health care clients confront challenges every day to keep their systems and data “always on” for critical care. Our government clients continue to contend with ever-increasing expectations to reduce the management costs of their technology infrastructure. Our advertising clients have to access expanding, more complex media content whenever and wherever they need it. And our clients in almost all business sectors need sales forces to be productive from almost every possible location over numerous devices.

Virtualization solutions have emerged as the most effective way to keep businesses up and running at all times, to efficiently expand, to continually innovate, and to be mobile and nimble, at lower total cost and increased efficiency with a more ecologically responsible footprint. Alongside of our Tier One Alliance Partners, Hewlett-Packard® (HP®), Microsoft®, Citrix®, VMware® and DataCore™ Software  – leaders in the field of datacenter and desktop virtualization – Derive has formulated advanced solutions to migrate businesses from traditional datacenter and workforce models to virtualized, fully mobile enterprises.  Derive’s unique solutions, developed based on our two+ decades of infrastructure consulting experience, enable any element of technology, datacenter to desktop, to be virtualized—from data archives to communications (mail, messaging, text, video, etc.), from media presentations to security layers, and much, much more.
 

Why Virtualization?

According to Hewlett-Packard® (HP®):

1. With datacenter virtualization, businesses see increases in “server utilization from 20 percent to 50 percent or more.”  Now, “IT seeks the same benefits with storage, network and client virtualization.”
    
2. With desktop virtualization, businesses see “the centralization of “management of data and applications, thus reducing administration costs and reducing risk.”
    
3. "Many customers (*only) associate virtualization with hardware savings. However, some organizations realize much more,” including:
   • “33% savings in IT operations costs
   • 200% faster service delivery”
      

Desktop and Application Virtualization

With Citrix, Derive provides access to, “Personal VDI desktops for any user,” from “any device,” which, according to Citrix:

1. Expands “the use cases for virtual desktops to demanding knowledge workers by permitting all of the customization, application flexibility and persistence they expect from their desktop while achieving the ease of management and storage optimizations” that are needed, “for large-scale deployments.”
    
2. Supports “Virtual user drive technology, that, “permits administrators or even users to install applications without impacting the master image.”
    
3. Optimizes user experiences “by delivering high-quality voice, video and multimedia while reducing bandwidth and server-side rendering to drive down the cost of deployment.”
    
4. Enables “virtual desktop deployments across the enterprise from remote branches to mobile users with high quality of service to meet the most demanding service level agreements.”
    

Data Center Virtualization

Microsoft and Derive, according to Microsoft, offer “proven datacenter virtualization and management solutions, built on Windows® Server 2008 R2 with Hyper-V® and System Center,” which provides businesses with “a familiar, supported, and cost-effective technology platform to help you improve datacenter operations, deliver reliable services, and lower costs.” Together, Derive and Microsoft:

1. Bring your business, according to Microsoft, “new virtualization technology that enables you to deliver more advanced capabilities… for increased IT efficiency and agility. Whether you want to consolidate servers, build a private cloud or offer Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, the addition of these powerful virtualization features enables you to take your datacenter and desktop virtualization strategy to a new level.”
    
2. Ensure that your datacenter is “agile and cost effective” with, “integrated, ‘single pane of glass’ management across your physical, virtual, and cloud environments” that provides, “common management across infrastructure, platform, and applications, thereby offering you unparalleled flexibility and control.”
    

With VMware and our other datacenter virtualization partners:

1. Derive and VMware offer, as VMware puts it, an “entire virtual infrastructure,” for datacenters and, for business overall, that scales, “across hundreds of interconnected physical computers and storage devices.” With this virtual framework, businesses “do not need to assign servers, storage, or network bandwidth permanently to each application.”
    
2. Derive and VMware also provide datacenter management “with the Lowest TCO,” giving you the ability to, “handle double or triple the number of servers, giving users access to the services they need while retaining centralized control.” All of this with better utilized, better allocated human and fiscal resources.

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Virtualization Solution Case Studies

• Rockefeller Group International - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (PDF)

• Rockefeller Group International VDI PODCAST (AUDIO)

• Global Financial Services - VMware Jumpstart Training (PDF)
• Financial Publishing – VMware for Production and Disaster Tolerance (PDF)