Reduce desktop costs in virtual environments

With the growth of desktop virtualisation by New Zealand organisations the endpoint device has often been overlooked as a component of a Virtual Desktop plan. This is driven by the perception that repurposing existing ageing desktops and PCs will lead to reduced costs as part of the strategy.

While this does delay the capital spend for a desktop refresh, the on-going costs remain locked to the desktop and organisations are exposing themselves to similar problems experienced pre-virtualisation.

MPA has found that the operational costs of maintaining the physical desktop fleet are evident in a VDI architecture even when desktops are stripped down to be as dumb as possible.  PCs continue to fail, hard drives will corrupt, infected USBs will be introduced to the network and there is a local operating system to manage.  Throughout the year, the IT team will still have to go on-site to strip down, diagnose, repair, replace, rebuild and redeploy PCs, keeping the costs high at the desktop.

Wyse Thin Clients significantly reduce the cost, time and effort involved in deploying, maintaining and managing the desktop fleet.  A Wyse client can be deployed in 15 minutes.   With no moving parts to fail they are incredibly reliable, are managed centrally through standard Windows practises and do not require patch updates, anti-virus updates, or individual hot fixes.

These devices provide a consistent, predictable service to the organisations users, and frees up the IT team to concentrate on innovative projects.

MPA have assisted many NZ companies, local and central government departments and Health Boards to drive down the cost and time spent on desktop computing.  This was achieved by moving to a Wyse Thin Client server based computing model.

MPAs consultants are experts in technology, helping companies solve their business problems.  For the MPA Guide to VDI Optimisation through the Endpoint please contact jon.flatley@mpa.co.nz.