Guarantees End User Experience for Remote VDI Deployment

VDI - Optimisationas a Service

Optimisation is not just a nice to have' it is absolutely essential and integrates seamlessly into your virtual environment.

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Key Benefits of Optimisation as a Servicepowered by Expand Networks

Arrow ECS VDI - OaaS virtual managed optimisation servicewith integrated QoS with Layer 7 visibility.

Virtualisation Protocol Support

• Unique ability to optimise IP and UDP Protocols• Optimises Citrix ICA, MS RDP and SUN ALP• Securely enables Terradici (VMware) PCoIP

Direct Optimisation

• Specific protocol acceleration for ICA, RDP and ALP

Byte-Level-Cache

• Unique In memory caching and compression

Dynamic Installation

• ICA and ALP needs vendors' compression turned off• RDP Proxy for zero touch RDP deployments

Layer 7 Visibility and QoS

• All traffic and applications over the WAN• RDP and ICA within the channels

Measurable Performance Improvements

Today, Arrow ECS and EcoLogic is one of the first vendor partnerships to offer as a Managed Service, successful acceleration within Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environments.

The key to any successful optimisation solution is not onlymeasurable in performance improvements of applications but also gains in the end user experience. By improving the perception and the actual performance for the end user directly enables higher productivity and performance gains to your organisation.

Instant Bandwidth Improvements

These performance improvements have been instantly noticeable by IT teams and end users alike with the followingquote from Leaders, the UK’s largest independently owned letting agents:

Implementation

The Arrow ECS VDI - OaaS can be integrated into new networkdeployments or just as effectively, embedded into an existingcorporate infrastructure.

The solution integrates transparently without affecting otherservices such as firewalls or routers and importantly can be implemented on any network infrastructure from Internet basedVPNs to Layer 3 MPLS networks.

Enabling true QoS including Layer 7 visibility in any environmentcan in itself produce cost savings over circuits where QoS is notavailable from the ISP, VDI - OaaS delivers this capability.

“The OaaS technology, powered by Expand Networks, hasworked wonders for the VDI project and given us a very stablenetwork. Within two minutes of going live, the performance of all applications was significantly quicker, improving our remoteusers’ productivity and customer levels. The Expand technologyhas given us the ability to deliver VDI with the same bandwidthdeployment without increasing costs. As a strong business on theacquisition trail, Expand has helped us to further strengthen ourposition by reducing the TCO and increasing the RoI on the existing infrastructure.”

VDI - Optimisation as a ServiceGuarantees End User Experience for Remote VDI Deployment

A major limiting factor to achieving the expected VDI marketgrowth is the ability to offer an acceptable user experience to VDI users deployed across the corporate WAN. The Optimisation as a Service (VDI - OaaS) proposition is the first to market service offering that guarantees best possible userexperience for VDI across the corporate WAN.

There is a market acceptance that while VDI deployments aregrowing exponentially, the optimisation of the network is increasingly understood to be an absolute pre-requisite to asuccessful deployment. Arrow ECS is the first VAD with a fullyintegrated service that resolves this issue. Optimisation as aService (VDI - OaaS) could be an integral part of any VDI remotedeployment across the WAN. VDI - OaaS is an Arrow ECS servicewrapped around a virtualised optimisation application that alsohas integrated QoS with Layer 7 visibility.

VDI - OaaS guarantees the best possible end user performance and therefore customer acceptance of any VDI remotely deployed solution. The ability of the WAN optimisation technology to optimise the VDI and/or Citrix datastream is a pre-requisite of a successful deployment.

VDI - OaaS supports all remote VDI deployment licences and is vendor agnostic

Arrow ECS VDI - OaaS is the next generation in WAN Optimisation providing full optimisation, acceleration andQoS in a software environment. VDI - OaaS can be effectively integrated tightly and seamlessly into virtual server environments to deliver a Virtual Managed Optimisation Service.

VDI - OaaS includes:

• Virtual application rather than appliance (both data centre and remote)

• Data centre and remote site infrastructure at zero CAP-Ex• Unique monthly pricing model• Integrates into VMware, Citrix XenApp and Microsoft HyperV• Uses VMware toolsets• Uses VMware provision tools• HA using VMotion capability provided at no extra cost• Negates the need to upgrade your WAN• Fully integrated QoS with Layer 7 visibility• Fully managed via 24/7 NoC

VMOapp - optimisation application for your Virtualised Environment

Optimisation is not just a 'nice to have' it is absolutely essential and integrates seamlessly into your virtual environment.

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Arrow ECS is an information technology distributor specialising in providing enterprise-class solutions and services focused on data storage, network security,enterprise software, virtualisation and access infrastructure. Working with our channel partners, we optimise the efficiency with which organisations can store,manage, protect and deploy their data, equipping them with secure access to business-critical information any time, from any location, on any device.

Our deep technical understanding is reinforced by strong business relationships andcontinually monitoring rapidly changing IT markets for the latest product advancesand emerging technologies. Through close alliances with the world’s leading IT vendors, we deliver innovative solutions, complemented by an impressive portfolio ofexpert professional services and IT training.

With over 25 successful years in the IT industry, we have the skills and experience tosupport our channel partners from initial consultation, planning and design, throughengineering build to implementation. In doing so, we enable our partners to delivereven more value to increase their customers’ competitive edge.

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) is a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. More details are available at www.arrowecs.co.uk

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