On-Demand Desktop Streaming

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Dave — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:40:46 GMT

"this solution is aimed at the "always connected" users on the LAN"

So no solution for when these users go remote?

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

BrianE — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:48:07 GMT

Our domain requires each computer to be joined to the domain to utilize the network assets. How does this solution provide unique computer names for each instance of the image?

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Bob Smith — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:21:37 GMT

HI Guys

Sorry I'm comming to this a bit late and as yet I don't think Dell have release this in the UK. Martijn asked how this was different to the SunRay system, one big nice to have with Sun and VDI is that you can disconnect from your session, walk up to another terminal and reconnect where you left off. Is the same possible with this.

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re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Jojo ze Moto — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:32:27 GMT

Bharath,

Are there any white papers on this ?

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Bharath Vasudevan - Enterprise Solutions Team — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:39:29 GMT

Brad - You raise very good points.

On-Demand Desktop streaming isn't for every user. Today, the On-Demand Desltop Streaming solution is meant for LAN connected local users.

Using this V-log as an example -- if you were to view it over a terminal services or thin-client connection and then watch it again in an on-demand desktop streaming environment, you'd have radically different experiences.

Citrix Presentation Server does meet a lot of needs, and can be used in conjunction with Citrix Provisioning Server (formerly Ardence) to address a wider variety of customer environments.

Dell Services now offers an Flexible Computing Assessment where we will analyze your environment and make recommendations on how alternative computing models can best serve your existing computing needs.

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Brad — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:27:27 GMT

To All-

Other than maybe better graphics (for videos, etc.), how is this different than just running Citrix Presentation Server and connecting with another thin client solution (neoware, wyse, etc.)?

Also, since processing is done locally, doesn't that mean more data is transferred in the process? Will this effect performance for remote users as compared a thin client solution where all processing is done on the back end?

Thanks for your time.

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Bharath Vasudevan - Enterprise Solutions Team — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:17:32 GMT

Jason --

The solution is able to support other OSes other than Windows, but for our initial scope, we're limiting our validation to Windows based configurations.

With this solution, you can run different versions of the OS (ex: SP1 vs SP2), have multiple OSes (ex: Vista vs XP), or variants of the same OS with different applications to address different workers (ex: Call center workers vs graphics editors)

The demo that we had at Gartner's IT Expo, where Dell launched this solution is a 5 client deployment -- so yes, the solution will scale down to that few users.

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Tarundeep Dhadwal — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:57:25 GMT

This is an excellent solution! I've been working with Citrix for a little over 5 years and I've always thought that there could be a better solution to not only application/patch management but also managing the end-user data/settings from one administration console. I'm glad that Dell and Citrix have teamed up to cook-up such a solution. I look forward to more details on this innovation.

Thank you, Bharath and Aaron for such an easy to follow video overview.

re: On-Demand Desktop Streaming

Bharath Vasudevan—Enterprise Solutions Team — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:39:37 GMT

Alan, you’re absolutely right – Ardence (now Citrix) has been doing this for years. Specifically with the OS streaming solution, we have partnered with Citrix -- Dell’s innovation is addressing the pain-points that our customers have identified with EasyConnect and our support model.

We have simplified solution licensing by pre-licensing clients out of our factory, we’ve removed the need for a PXE server in the customer’s datacenter, and drastically reduced the time to deployment from Out of the Box to up and running.

We’ve also noticed a fragmented support model from key competitors that have tried to coddle together a solution for flexible computing by leveraging multiple partners. At Dell, we’ve worked to create a single point of contact for support so that our customers have a single 800 number to call to get support on the entire solution including server, clients and software. Additionally, we’ve created assessment consulting and deployment offers to help our customer understand how flexible computing fits into their current IT environment, and to get the technology implemented including solution setup and knowledge transfer.

I do not believe you can find this level of solution integration combined with the services and support for this solution by anyone else in the marketplace today!