Infrastructure
Desktop Virtualisation
Do more with less.
IT organisations typically spend in excess of 80% of their budgets "keeping the lights on" and the remainder on innovation and improvement. The conjuring up of a magic bullet that will make these costs disappear has been the subject of many discussions and technology advancements.
Key to understanding the buzz about desktop virtualisation, is this desire by companies to shrink their IT budgets, putting pressure on IT to find alternative methods of delivery, one such method is the centralisation of management and control of the desktop estate.
A traditional managed desktop consists of a large number of devices spread geographically throughout the company. Each of these end-points has to be secured, managed, protected, updated, tracked and eventually replaced and recovered. associated with each of these activities is cost and complexity.
Virtual Desktop promises to remove and simplify much of this complexity by the centralisation of the desktop. Running in a Virtual environment, hosted centrally within secure Data Centres, the disparate nature of the end point has been removed, the device used to access the centralised infrastructure becomes less important and can be delivered as a thin client device, or re-tasked PC.
Application Packaging
In a corporate environment, the maintainability of the application estate is key to a supportable environment. The packaging of applications helps achieve this by creating automated installs of all desktop applications, allowing remote deployment, auto-repair and the ability to remove the application without impacting other applications or users.
In addition, when considering a migration, the transition of applications from one platform to another should not be underestimated. ECS provides a methodology second to none, developed through multiple large engagements, and working with class leading tools vendors in the management of applications through the migration cycle and business as usual packaging engagements.
All while maintaining high quality output of the end product, be that a traditional MSI package or virtualised application, compliant with the target OS. Available as a blended service designed on a customer specific basis, balancing resource requirements and cost effectiveness to deliver the optimum service, either a low cost offshore packaging with a local service management and quality assurance, onshore, or on-site.