Application Access and

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Application Access and Virtualized
Operating Systems True Centralized Computing
iForum October 11, 2005 Roy Zatcoff, Executive
VP
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Agenda

• Current server based computing limitations
• Virtual ComputingTrue Centralized Computing
• Benefits of Virtual Computing
• Neoware Image Manager
• Virtual Architecture
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Conclusion

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Limitations of Server Based Computing Environments

• Ability to manage the OS just as well as Citrix
  manages applications
• Ability to secure desktop environment just as
  well as Citrix secures applications
• Desire to leverage existing PCs, thin clients,
  servers, and networks
• Challenged to migrate all activity to servers

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Ideal Solution

• Provide a fully secured desktop operating
  environment
• Manage the desktop operating environment on the
  server, along with your Citrix applications
• Ease of deployment
• All the manageability, security, and support
  benefits of server-based computing models
• Extending the useful life of desktops

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Virtual Computing Solves the Limitations

• Reduces the administration of operating system
  management on each individual desktop
• Improves security by pulling user and corporate
  desktop data into secure central storage
• Minimize costs associated with administration and
  obsolescence of the desktop
• Easy to manage and deploy

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Neoware Image Manager

• Streams operating systems and Citrix access
  clients on demand
• Completes the virtualization of user desktops
• Eliminates the need for local desktop storage,
  server based C drive
• Exclusive Neoware UbiBoot feature reduces
  manageability to a single image across all
  hardware/ driver configurations
• Secure, reliable, and manageable
• Retain individual PC functionality and
  personalization

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Citrix and Neoware Image Management

• Neoware Image Manager works with Citrix's
  Presentation Server, allowing Citrix customers
  to
• Leverage existing investments,
• Provide increased flexibility,
• Maintain full Citrix access,
• Do full server based virtual computing
• Nothing remains on the local hard drive so you
  can run a diskless PC or flashless TC

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Current Architecture
Citrix Server
Other Servers
XP
Thin Client
PC
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Neoware Enhances Your Existing Architecture
XPe
Citrix Server
Other Servers
Neoware Image Manager
XP
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Neoware Image Manager

• Remote boot, streaming on-demand, and centralized
  management of Windows 2000, XP, and XPe
• Easily configure virtual hard disk drives on the
  server
• Exclusive Neoware UbiBoot feature creates a
  single Windows XP image that can be used across a
  wide variety of desktop configurations,
  dramatically reducing the number of managed images

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Neoware Image Manager

• Improved Manageability
• Manages one image for all devices
• Centralizes management of operating systems and
  Citrix applications
• Eliminates the need to travel from device to
  device, desk to desk
• Enhanced Security
• Eliminates unauthorized user desktop changes
• Ensures desktop backups are performed at server
  level
• Improves desktop recovery strategy through
  centralization
• Lower Costs and TCO
• Eliminates the cost of local storage
• Extends the life of desktops
• Benefit from lowest cost devices and fast ROI
• Lowers administrative costs of device management
• Improve utilization of desktop CPU

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Virtual Image Management Advantages

• Desktop management is reduced to managing a few
  disk images
• As few or as many clients as the IT department
  requires
• Citrix applications and desktop operating system
  now managed centrally
• Enable a single disk image to work across a
  heterogeneous mix of hardware
• Full ICA compatibility while allowing local
  capabilities (e.g. multimedia)

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Benefits for PCs

• Install each new image one time for the entire
  network!
• PCs can be re-provisioned just by rebooting
• PCs run diskless while keeping their computing
  power
• Lower power consumption, heat generation and
  noise
• Provides renewed life for older PCs
• PCs are stable and secure

PCs BECOME MORE SECURE, RELIABLE, AND MANAGEABLE!
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Virtual Computing
New Virtualization Model
Traditional Local Disk Model
Virtualization Tool
SAN/NASiSCSI
User Data
User Data
Citrix Server
Applications
Applications
Operating System
Neoware Image Manager
Operating System
Hardware Drivers
Hardware Drivers
NeowareImage Manager
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Virtual Diskless Computing
With Virtual OS
Virtualization Tool
User Data
SAN/NASiSCSI
Citrix ICA
Applications
Guest OS
Guest OS
Guest OS
Neoware Image Manager
Virtual OS Host OS
Neoware Image Manager
Hardware Drivers
NeowareImage Manager
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Neoware Image Manager Architecture
PC Image w/ ICA Client
TC Image w/ ICA Client
Citrix Server
Neoware Image Server
Thin Client
PC
PC
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Virtualized OSTrue Centralized Computing at the
Lowest Cost
Performance
Low
High
Desktops with Central Image Management
Low
High
Classic Thin Clients
Reliability
Total Cost of Ownership
PCs with HD
Low
High
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TCO

• Cut Operating Expenses
• Reduction in image admin effort
• Reduction of service time
• Increased PC availability
• Great reduction of maintenance-related tasks
• Lower backup costs

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Summary of True Centralized Computing

• Server-based computing is an IT best practice,
  improving
• Security
• Reliability
• Client manageability
• Central Image Management improves server based
  computing by
• Performance and flexibility of PC clients into a
  full server-based model
• Manages OS the way Citrix manages applications
  on the server

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Questions???