Andr JACQUES

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Applications Desktop Dynamic Delivery The new
paradigm

• André JACQUES
• General Services Manager
• Systemat Luxembourg PSF

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AGENDA AM

• 09H30 10h00 New technologies overview
• 10h00 10h45 CITRIX XenApp, XenDesktop
• Pause
• 11h00 11h45 Microsoft Terminal Server
  2008, SoftGrid
• 11h45 12h30 VMware - VDM2, ACE
• 12h30 12h45 Systemat appoach
• 12h45 14h00 Evaluation awards Lunch

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AGENDA PM Technical sessions

• 2 sessions 14H00 15h00 15h10 16h10
• Room 1 Microsoft - Terminal Server 2008,
  SoftGrid
• Room 2 VMware - VDM2, ACE
• Room 3 CITRIX XenApp, XenDesktop
• 16h10 Drink Meet together

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Applications Desktop Dynamic Delivery The new
paradigm
New technologies overview

• André JACQUES
• General Services Manager
• Systemat Luxembourg PSF

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OUR IT CHALLENGES
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1. Local Desktop, Personal Computer

• Every user has his own personal computer
• Applications must be installed on every PC
  (manually or ESD)
• Program execution occurs locally on the PC
• Data can be stored locally or on the network
• Benefits
• Online (Onsite or Offsite), Offline
• Resource graphical intensive application
• Peripherals
• Application compatibility
• No single point of failure
•  User freedom 

Tightly Coupled
Profile
X
Apps
Windows
Hardware
Locally Installed

• Some challenges
• Manageability (Ex. no rapid application
  delivery)
• Less strengthened security and compliance
• TCO

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2. Shared desktop, Session virtualization, SBC
(1/2)

• Enable a desktop or an application to be
  simultaneously run on a server by multiple users.
  
• Applications installed one time centrally
  (Terminal Server)
• Program execution occurs centrally
• Application access through a Remote Display
  Protocol (RDP, ICA)
• Examples Windows Terminal Services, Citrix
  XenApp,

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2. Shared desktop, Session virtualization, SBC
(2/2)

• Benefits
• Centralized rapid deploiement of applications
• Strengthened security and compliancy
• Consolidated centralized IT
• End-user device independent
• High number of users/server
• Some challenges
• Publishing granularity
• Application compatibility conflict
• Ressources graphical intensive applications
• Peripherals
• No offline

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3. Personal desktop/Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (1/2)

• Solution for accessing Windows XP/Vista or Linux
  desktops which are running within a Virtual
  Machine or physical (blade) PC in the datacanter.
• Every user has is own dedicated desktop
  environment
• Applications must be installed on every desktop
  (manually or ESD)
• Program execution occurs centrally
• Data stored on the network
• Desktop access through a Remote Display Protocol
  (RDP, ICA, RGS, VNC, )
• Examples Citrix XenDesktop, VMware Virtual
  Desktop Manager,

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3. Personal desktop/Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (2/2)

• Benefits
• Rapid delivery of desktop
• Strengthened security and compliancy
• Consolidated centralized IT
• End-user device independent
• Deliver mixed OS or version within a single VDI
  environment
• Application compatibility
• Some challenges
• Graphical intensive applications
• Peripherals
• Scalability (CPU Storage)
• No offline

Desktop Appliance
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4. Remote Display Protocol

• Protocol than sends screen updates across the
  network from an remote Windows instance
• Examples RDP, ICA, X, VNC, HP Remote Graphics
  Software, Net2Display?,
• Some challenges
• efficiency with all type of applications
  (multimedia, graphic-intensive, 3D, AERO
  interface, )
• Support of USB, multi-display, remote audio,
• bandwith usage
• local ressources needs
• user experience close to local performance

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5. Application Virtualization (1/2)

• Application  install  on Windows within a
  virtual environment (sandbox).
• Neither the system files nor the registry are
  modified.
• Introduction of encapsulation and isolation at
  the application level.
• The virtual application
• is delivered as a file.
• Examples
• Citrix XenApp,
• Microsoft Application Virtualization (Ex.
  Softgrid)
• VMware ThinApp (Ex. Thinstall),

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5. Application Virtualization (2/2)

• Benefits
• Applications do not install anymore
• End application conflict regression testing
• Dynamic application delivery infrastructure
• Application compatibility
• Multiple versions of the same application can be
  used simultaneously
• Usable on all architecture PC, SBC, VDI
• Some challenges
• Inter-applications communication
• Not all applications can be virtualized
• applications that are using drivers (antivirus,
  VPN, )

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6. Streaming solutions (1/2)

• Application streaming the virtualized
  application is streamed on demand from the
  network to the OS (local, virtualized or
  centralized)
• Disk streaming computers boot and run from an
  image file stored on the network
• Examples Microsoft Application
  Virtualization
• Citrix Provisioning Server

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6. Streaming solutions (2/2)

• Benefits
• Easy OS applications deployment for PC, SBC or
  VDI environments
• Dynamic OS application delivery infrastructure
• Client computers are always 100 identical
• Security
• Flexibility
• Saving of storage (common image file)
• Some challenges
• No Offline
• High speed LAN recommended

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Wrap-Up

• Architectures
• PC / Fat Client
• Server Based Computing / Session virtualization
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
• Technologies
• Remote Display Protocol
• Application Virtualization
• Streaming

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AGENDA AM

• 09H30 10h00 New technologies overview
• 10h00 10h45 CITRIX XenApp, XenDesktop
• Pause
• 11h00 11h45 Microsoft Terminal Server
  2008, SoftGrid
• 11h45 12h30 VMware - VDM2, ACE
• 12h30 12h45 Systemat appoach
• 12h45 14h00 Evaluation awards Lunch