Reaping the benefits of Virtual Desktops

To withstand the competitive global economic conditions and the price rise, enterprises need to be furnished with robust and appropriate IT infrastructure and processes. They search for various IT solutions that could help them reduce the operational expenses and efficient management of power and usage of other available resources.

The client is a global leader in the insurance sector and for the last 2 years Media Systems has been offering them with cost effective and quality

Media System's client is a leading Fortune 500 Insurance company. It is the global provider of insurance and reinsurance brokerage services. The company also engages in providing insurance products,risk and insurance advice and web-based risk management information systems. It operates in three major segments: commercial brokerage, consulting services, and consumer insurance underwriting.

The company was ranked as the largest reinsurance broker in the world based on revenue and has become the world's second largest insurance brokerage company. Backed by broad resources, industry

Being a global provider, the client IT infrastructure management required an efficient 24x7 support. Client called in Media Systems as the support partner who could provide a cost effective and strategic solution for efficient utilization of resources.

The client wanted to implement the following features:

Client Requirement

• Ability to properly utilize the server CPU The user applications should have what they need to properly run but the servers must not stay idle.

Media proposed to set up a virtual environment in which the client can successfully manage their systems & applications more efficiently. After thorough analysis Media decided to move forward with Citrix products such as XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp and Citrix Access Gateway. The virtual environment implementation by Media was done in four stages, namely

• XenServer creation Using XenServer, Media created the virtual servers and desktops required for setting up the virtual environment in the office. The scalability of Xenserver helped save time and money by making it easy to create any number of machines irrespective of specifications.
• XenDesktop implementation To help the users access the office network from home or public places, Media created a XenDesktop as the desktop virtualization solution without compromising security and functionality.

• Reduced Costs: By reducing the number of physical servers required in the datacenter, organization was able to save on their power and cooling costs.
• Increased IT agility and efficiency: End users were served more efficiently to the changing datacenter and computing needs by dynamically flexing capacity, optimizing VM placement, and automating repetitive management tasks.
• Improved performance and user productivity: By enabling zero downtime maintenance, automatically recovering from hardware failure, and providing failover capabilities in disaster situations, end users were ensured access to mission critical application in all scenarios situations, end users were ensure access to mission critical application in all scenarios..