The concept of the virtual workplace — or virtualization — can mean different things to different people. At its core, we at Derive like to think of it as enabling excellent and flexible productivity from an organization’s workforce regardless of their physical location.
The COVID-19 pandemic has served as a wake-up call for every organization to have robust support for virtual workplace operations in place so: 1) their workforce can easily collaborate and remain productive no matter where they are, and 2) full and efficient use is made of any endpoint hardware they procure.
Picking the right mix of virtualization solutions is critical to ensuring the success of your overall IT technology strategy. Derive Technologies maintains strategic partnerships with leading virtualization partners, including Microsoft, HPE, VMWare, Nutanix, and Citrix, among others. Our professional services team has the experience and expertise to develop and implement an appropriate virtualization strategy for your organization.
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Derive Technologies leverages the vast collective experience of its team professionals by means of a set of standardized and well-documented IT problem-solving approaches we call SolutionPathsSM. Continuously honed over the last twenty years to incorporate a steady evolution of practices and technologies over time, they reflect the company’s insights into business consulting workflows, process and client support best practices, and more.
SolutionPathsSM enables Derive technologists to support repeatable, high-quality engagements of any size and create tailored solutions for clients while profiting from past experiences.
Across such practice areas such as data centers, cloud computing, remote office operations, networking, security, and others, Derive applies SolutionPathsSM to such tasks as:
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Behind the scenes at any organization fielding a virtual workplace are several vital software components woven into an overall virtualization architecture.
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Virtualization offerings can be used to address common business and technical challenges.
Scenario 1: Be prepared to handle the unexpected
Beyond just providing resources to implement the servers necessary to run your infrastructure, making sure your organization is making the best use of its IT investment will help ensure readiness for the unexpected.
Derive has helped customers navigate the complexities of moving from a single physical data center to that a fully resilient “always on” strategy that takes full advantage of features already available in current platform technology. Sometimes all that is required is demystifying process and getting to the mission-critical goals of your organization—like keeping computing resources available regardless of adverse conditions like extended power or site outages. In the event of a site outage, having the right resources—like VMWare Site Recovery Manager to bring your disaster recovery site online and populated—is a key enablement tool. Additionally, capabilities like Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) from a capable ADC provides resiliency for web-based applications.
Scenario 2: Remote doesn’t have to mean less productive
During the last year, many organizations made a rapid shift to employees working remotely outside their normal office environments, and with that shift came the realization that users’ personal devices are not generally up to the requirements of a traditional office PC. Even if quickly deploying VPN connections to all users is possible—which carries its own security considerations—issues such as the proper application sets for users to work effectively must be addressed.
Implementing a robust virtual desktop solution like that offered by Citrix Virtual Desktops allows for rapid deployment of secured desktops to accommodate a large and diverse user base—including all required applications, data access, and other resources—regardless of an individual users location in a traditional office or home/remote office setting.
Scenario 3: Managing a sprawling infrastructure
Having lots of powerful tools and hardware at your disposal is great, but it still needs to be managed properly to ensure that everything is implemented in a logical manner and that resources are not given away haphazardly without a thought to providing ongoing support. Leveraging tools like VRealize Operations has helped customers gain precise data center metrics to ensure that smooth operations continue. Many of those same customers also see benefits with VRealize Automation to provide for orchestration and provisioning.
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Derive offers numerous solutions to accommodate the wide variety of virtual workplace needs from its customers.
Infrastructure to Meet your Needs
Derive has extensive experience in architecture design and deployment of all sizes of virtual infrastructure, assisting organizations in handling any performance and/or scalability obstacles they might experience. Connecting the dots to make sure that all requirements are met, without saddling the organization with unnecessary subscription costs or costly hardware purchases, is our main priority.
Application Delivery and Desktop Virtualization
Derive has successfully deployed Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops solutions to numerous customers, providing Virtual Apps to organizations that need seamless management of their application delivery while minimizing the overall expenditure required to manage it. Virtual Desktops are a reliable and well-proven means of providing full end-to-end virtual workplace solutions to the end user for consistent productivity both in the office and outside it.
Even if virtual desktops are not the sole correct strategy for you, taking advantage of application virtualization technologies still helps your overall application and asset strategy by ensuring endpoint applications are always up-to-date and accessible to your users regardless of conditions external to your organization. This not only ensures productivity under all conditions but also the security of organizational data.
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Derive Technologies has provided business and technological innovation for our clients through progressive, decades-long relationships with some of the world's most important providers of core infrastructure, cloud, mobility, collaboration, security and numerous other solutions.
