1. 1. IT Consulting forDell Desktop Virtualization SolutionsBlueprint AssessmentDont sacrifice employee Drive productivity and reduce IT complexity Virtualizing your client environment can help reduce total cost of ownership andproductivity or business increase business agility and continuity. It can enable anywhere access, and improvegrowth for the sake of ITsecurity and compliance.security Dells Desktop Virtualization Solutions provide the end-to-end framework from decision making consulting to operational management and support for Dell pre- certified virtual desktop solutions - in our data center or yours.Empower your anytime,Our comprehensive consulting methodology, based on years of successfulanywhere workforce customer engagements, can simplify the management and maintenance of desktopYour workforce is more global, infrastructure to help you:mobile and distributed than ever Increaseproductivity by giving users anywhere, anytime access to businessbefore. Your employees, contractors,critical data and applications.partners and customers are always DriveoutITcomplexity by centralizing control of all end-user data, applications,online and are more demanding and preferences, and images.critical of how business gets done. Reducecost with easier desktop provisioning and application deployment.ManagingTake the next step with Dellthis relatively Our IT Consultants can assist at every stage ofnew businessyour desktop virtualization journey. We begindynamic by gathering information about your currentrequiresdesktop environment, pain points and long-an agileterm business objectives during the DiscoveryWorkshop.workforce thatcan deliverOur Blueprint Assessment follows thesuperior Discovery Workshop and uses a virtualcustomer appliance and agent software, deployed onservice and an your network, to gather detailed data frominnovative and every desktop targeted for virtualization. Theempoweredoutcome is an expansive and detailed reportIT organization that can respond of your desktop environment and user profiles. This data-driven feedback is used asto business needs withouta basis for a productive virtual desktop environment.compromising security. This information also helps us create a detailed and accurate design and implementation plan for delivering virtual desktops, and provides you with extensive and valuable IP around the desktop estate.
2. 2. IT Consulting for Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions Blueprint AssessmentDesktopBlueprintDesignandImplementationOperate VirtualizationAssessment ProposeUnderstandMakeInformed LaythePath CapturetheOngoing thePotentialDecisionsforSuccessValueSuccessDEMOTRIAL PILOTorPHASEIIMPLEMENTATION Objectives Assess as-is physical desktop environmentQualify desktops for virtualizationDetermine required infrastructureCreate virtual desktop design documentDevelop a customer specific, detailed financial business case identifying TCO & ROI Assessment Determine which desktops are considered a good fit for virtualization, based upon configuration, peripherals, usage model and network latencyDevelop a detailed financial model that identifies your as-is costs and compares them to the to be costs of different usage modelsDiscuss usage trends with IT and end users to understand how they impact the computing environment Timeline The data gathering phase is typically executed over a period of 3-4 weeks. This includes: Initiation and planning Assessment tool configuration and deployment Data collection Data retrieval and report generation Business case update CustomerThe Assessment is a collaborative effort between the customer and Dell. Customerresponsibilities include the following: Responsibilities Customer Sponsor Initiate required change management requests Approve deployment plan Provide point of escalation for issue resolution Customer Desktop Engineer Develop desktop agent deployment approach Distribute desktop agent to desktops in scope Remediate any issues with desktop agent deployment Customer Intel/AD Engineer Create AD service account Provide AD configuration data to Virtual Desktop ConsultantImplementation plans are created based on the output from the Blueprint Assessment. Implementation planningcovers everything from infrastructure requirements, build, and configuration to application sequencing, imagecreation, virtual desktop provisioning and user migration schedules and timescales.For more information about any of our service offerings, please contact your Dell representative or visit dell.com/services.Availability varies by country. To learn more, customers and Dell Channel Partners should contact their sales representative for more information. Trademarksand trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products. Specifications are correct at date ofpublication but are subject to availability or change without notice at any time. Dell and its affiliates cannot be responsible for errors or omissions in typography orphotography. Dells Terms and Conditions of Sales and Service apply and are available on request. Dell Service offerings do not affect consumers statutory rights.Dell and the Dell logo are trademarks of Dell Inc. 2011 Dell Inc. All rights reserved. March 2011.ITC_DesktopVirtualizationSolutions-BlueprintAssessment_wVideo.indd | Rev. 1.0 20110328DTIS