Driving Cost and Complexity Out of Virtual Desktop InfrastructureAdrian Groeneveld - Partner Manager, UK & Nordics31st October 2013

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Successful desktop projects depend on making everyone happy

IT Organization• Simplify operations and avoid PC refresh• Proven and reliable, easy to manage• High availability and disaster recovery

Users• Enable user mobility and BYOD• Provide better-than-PC user experience• Allow access anywhere and anytime

Chief Financial Officer• CAPEX cost lower than a PC• Tangible datacenter OPEX costs reduction• Lower risk with no hidden costs

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Virtual Desktop Challenges & Risks

Costs and Complexity of storage and networking infrastructure

Need for high availability and rapid recovery from failure and natural disasters

Delivering a User Experience that is equal

or better-than-PC

Deployment Risks that derail VDI

projects

Managing VDI at Scale – tens of

thousands of desktops

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The Virtual Desktop Storage Trap

“The No. 1 challenge associated with any SHVD [VDI] project, is the lack of storage planning resulting in

higher-than-expected storage costs.”

“Today, storage represents 40% to 60% of the SHVD

budget and, in many cases,

is a barrier to entry.”

Source: Attacking the High Cost of Desktop Virtualization (July 2013 Gartner ID: ID:G00250192)

VDI Cost By Component

“Cost should be carefully

balanced with user experience.”

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Atlantis ILIO - De-risking the Desktop

Lower Cost than a Physical PC

Enables High Availability and Disaster Recovery

Faster than PC

Lowers deployment risk with automation

Proven Management at

Scale

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Atlantis ILIO - In Memory Storage Platform

Desktop ApplicationAccelerating storage-intensive Cloud workloads

Highperformancecost-effectiveVirtual Desktops

Deliveringapplicationsat the speedof Memory

Cloud

Automation

Management

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Atlantis ILIO at Work

ILIO DisklessILIO

Virtual Desktops

Atlantis ILIO Storage

Optimization

Physical Server

Virtualization Layer

Storage

Server Hardware

NFS or iSCSI

Application Analysis

Inline Deduplication

Compression

Coalescing (I/O Blender Fix)

Content-Aware I/O Processing

Hypervisor

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Deployment Flexibility

Challenges Typical Virtual Desktop Atlantis ILIO Virtual Desktop

Flexibility Limited storage and network optionsDifficult to integrate components

Any storage with simplified networkingSAN, NAS, Local Flash, In-Memory Storage

ExpensiveTier 1 SAN

Fibre Channel

RAMLocal Flash

SAN/NAS

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Persistent VDI – Cost Per Desktop (1,000 user example)

Challenges Traditional Persistent VDI Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI

Cost Per Desktop More Expensive Than a PC $1,000-$2,000 to equal PC performance

Cheaper than a PC!Cut CAPEX/OPEX up to 80%

Virtually unlimited IOPS of RAM

70% Reduction in Storage Costs$800K+ in Storage Savings

Cost Per Desktop under $300

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Virtual Desktops – Deployment Time

Challenges Traditional VDI Atlantis ILIO VDI

Deployment Time 6 months to yearsComplexity leads to project delays

Go live in weeks!Automated deployment

“Within two weeks of contacting Atlantis Computing, we deployed 1,400 virtual desktops using Atlantis ILIO deliver a significantly faster desktop experience.”

Andrew Rice, Global Head of ITBLP (Berwin Leighton Paisner)

“IT organizations must carefully plan and size the storage infrastructure to avoid SHVDdeployment failures.”

How to Implement Storage for Virtual Desktop DeploymentJanuary 2013 Gartner ID #G00229127

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The Atlantis Enabled Desktop

Delivers lowest cost per desktop – faster than PC

Only solution for VDI and XenApp with “NO storage”

4 to 10 times more users on any shared storage or SSD/Flash

Reduce project risks & human errors with automation and simplification

Migrate from Persistent to Stateless with no infrastructure changes

…all delivered with just software

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Round Table Breakouts - with Jim Moyle, CTP

Session 1

Atlantis ILIO - Beneath the CoversA technical drill down into Atlantis ILIO and the different architecture and deployment models, followed by a live demonstration

Session 2

Virtual Desktop Architectures Q&AA no-nonsense overview of the different desktop deployment models and your chance to get straight answers to your questions

Session 3

Open Forum DiscussionAfter a day of information this is a great forum to make sense of it all. Jim Moyle has 20 years experience working with virtual desktop technology so there isn’t much he hasn’t experienced

Thank YouAny Questions?