Branch-oriented financial service, insurance and retail banking businesses have distributed users and offices that can vary widely in terms of the number of people who work there. Many of them have been chartered to implement centralized virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) because of its uptime, security and compliance benefits.
Vspace enables financial services organizations to quickly realize the full benefits associated with centralized virtual desktops, and even greater flexibility and performance, without having to create and support a VDI solution themselves. Vspace is the only solution that integrates all enabling virtualization technologies into a single, automated self-service platform. Because it is uniquely designed along two tiers (enterprise and service provider), it lets you manage a collection of virtual desktops that is powered by a very large set of physical resources, which are owned and maintained within our network. Branch-oriented financial services companies can realize substantial benefits with Vspace: :
- Hosting location flexibility: By taking advantage of the Vspace network you can choose to leverage data centers – and virtual desktops – that are closer to your offices – regardless of how many people work in each office or where it is located. Vspace also provides you the option of choosing a hosted cloud environment, where the physical infrastructure resides in the service provider data center, or managed CPE, where it is located on your network. Or you can use a combination of both models in order to dilute the risk of where the infrastructure resides.
- Improve data and device security: By using thin client access devices, you ensure that end users can't take data out of office. By centralizing control over your virtual desktop images, you can ensure that users can't install software that could compromise the endpoint. Additionally, if end users inadvertently cause problems with the operating environment, your administrators can easily roll back to good state. And because your data center utilizes a private connection to the service provider's data center, you don't have to worry about compromising security.
- Ensure optimal user performance: Eliminate network latency problems by using Vspace data centers that are near your offices. And, because Vspace provides a genuine Windows client environment with multi-monitor and broad application support, users feel as though they're working on rich PCs.
- Balance compliance and user experience: IT departments that are under pressure to ensure compliance and security often opt to lock-down desktops. But, end users demand a rich experience. Vspace enables you to balance IT's requirement for control with end users' performance needs.
- Reduce total cost of ownership: Because virtual desktops are consumed on a subscription-basis, desktops are now an operating expense rather than a capital expenditure that is subject to depreciation. In addition, you can repurpose inadequate PCs for endpoints and double their lifetime, lowering PC refresh costs. And with Vspace predicted to save 10% over internally deployed VDI (and 25%-35% over traditional desktop practices), you can lower your overall desktop IT costs.
- Reduce power and space requirements: In addition to reducing endpoint power requirements by converting PCs to thin clients, you eliminate the need to build out large, expensive and energy-consuming data centers by outsourcing the infrastructure that powers virtual desktops to your service provider.
- Eliminate enabling technology concerns: The core technologies (i.e., servers, storage, network, thin clients and virtualization software) required for VDI exist today. However, with new technologies continually coming to market, many companies hesitate to implement VDI for fear of picking products that may not be adequate in the longer term. With Vspace, you can adopt VDI without worrying about vendor technology changes.
To learn more about how Vspace can help your business, contact us at 800.687.1620 or email info@vspace.com. |
