As you would expect, this week at VMworld 2015 in San Francisco thousands of IT managers are roaming the floor at Moscone looking for the latest innovations in virtualization. They are looking for better strategies on how to increase the penetration of VDI within organizations in a seamless and cost-effective manner. They want to improve reliability and scalability in the data center, improve network performance, and perhaps most importantly, reduce complexity and costs all the way to the endpoints. 
But they are often concerned about the over-all effort required to transition and the potential TCO realized once the implementation is complete.
That's why VDI leaders like NCS Technologies are making significant investments in research and development, engineering and training to assure that an implementation is both easy and beneficial.
What You Should Look For
When considering potential vendors, focus on key attributes they must possess.
Does your potential partner have available trained and certified professionals in the software virtualization platform (such as VMware)? Does the vendor have dependable experience and understanding of the hardware elements (not just a box reseller)? What about a proven record of integrating hardware and software into a coherent and workable solution? And does your vendor have a track record for innovation and customer service?
Your vendor should be able to offer, if desired, a turnkey installation. All key elements of the VDI installation should be available, including these elements: (storage, compute & network), software and services and endpoints. The solution offered must be scalable, flexible and most importantly cost effective.
Your preferred partner should take the guesswork and stress out of your VDI deployment.
Hardware & Software
IT managers may opt for the hyper-converged or modular VDI path. If opting for hyper-converged hardware in the data center, vendors like NCS will offer an appliance platform with high performance storage,networking and graphics virtualization. For instance, NCS offers the NexServ XRG Series in both a 1U rackmount and 2U rackmount server configurations for "best in class" performance. If a customer chooses to go modular, compute and storage resources will reside in different appliances.
Your preferred vendor should partner with industry leading software providers. For instance, NCS relies on VMware, Microsoft and Maxta.
Services
NCS provides highly trained professionals certified to deploy, maintain and support all the software platforms necessary to manage the VDI deployment. We offer hardware engineers who specialize in configuring and supporting the server platforms that are the backbone of each VDI deployment. Services include requirement analysis, design consultation, solution implementation, installation and technical support.
Zero Client Endpoints
Finally, make sure your VDI vendor can deliver the latest innovation in endpoint technologies. Super secure zero clients enable the "anyone, anywhere" scenario because there is no persistent user data on the device. NCS offers the industry's most innovative and secure zero client portfolio, including portable desktops and the revolutionary Cirrus LT mobile zero client laptops.
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