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Built for Desktops

Introduction

Enterprises today are facing a serious desktop dilemma. End users increasingly need the freedom and flexibility to access their applications and data from a multitude of devices and locations. Unfortunately, this need is driving up costs for IT organizations as they attempt to balance user needs with financial constraints, internal policies, and compliance requirements.

With OffsiteCloud, you can solve this dilemma by virtualizing desktop operating systems, applications and user data, decoupling these components from their underlying hardware. IT administrators can then centrally manage and provision these desktop components from the datacenter creating a rapidly deployable private “desktop cloud” infrastructure.

OffsiteCloud encapsulates the OS, applications and user data into isolated layers for better desktop management and dynamically assembles desktops on demand to provide users with a personalized view of their individual desktop.

Purpose-built for desktops, OffsiteCloud is an end-to-end solution that provides the scalable management, rich user experience, and common virtualization platform you need to energize your business.

Key Benefits

• Reduce Operational Costs by 50%
  Centralizing your desktop infrastructure with OffsiteCloud makes it faster, easier and less costly for IT staff to provision, deploy, maintain and monitor desktop images across their entire life cycle. In fact, OffsiteCloud customers have been able to lower the total cost of ownership for their desktop infrastructures by 50 percent, saving more than $500 annually per user.
  
  
• Simplify Desktop and Application Management
  Using OffsiteCloud, you can manage virtual desktops, applications and user data from a centralized administrative interface while simplifying key IT processes such as provisioning, configuration management, connection brokering, policy enforcement, and application assignment. You can also strengthen security and control by hosting virtual desktops centrally to prevent data leakage while leveraging vShield for granular security policies, Endpoint for enabling centralized anti-virus, SSL for encryption and support for authentication with smart cards and RSA SecurID® tokens to enable secure access to virtual desktops.
  
  
• Deliver Rich User Experiences on Demand
  OffsiteCloud lets you deliver rich user experiences for end-users across your organization on any device at any location—online or off the grid. High-performance PC-over-IP (PCoIP) technology lets users work with their virtual desktops via a LAN or WAN connection, while OffsiteCloud Client with Local Mode enables them to work offline and leverage local processing resources. The result is a seamless user experience that combines the best of client virtualization.
  
  
• Standardize on a Common Virtualization Platform
  OffsiteCloud provides unparalleled performance, scalability, reliability and availability for virtual desktop environments. For the first time, your organization can standardize on a single common platform for your entire IT infrastructure, from the desktop to the datacenter and even through to cloud-based services.

Cloud Experience

Superior End User Experience:
Address the broadest range of use cases and deployment options with OffsiteCloud’s PCoIP desktop display protocol, and deliver a high-performance desktop experience, even over high latency and low bandwidth connections. The adaptive capabilities of the PCoIP display protocol are optimized to deliver virtual desktops to users on the LAN or over the WAN. OffsiteCloud gives users access to their virtual desktops over a wide variety of devices, without any performance degradation. End-users enjoy a seamless desktop experience with the ability to play rich media content, choose from various monitor configurations, and easily access locally attached peripherals such as scanners and mass storage devices.

Built-in Security:
Maintain control over data and intellectual property by keeping it secure in the datacenter. End-users access their personalized desktop, complete with applications and data, from any location, at any time without jeopardizing the corporate security policies. Integration with vShield Endpoint enables offloaded and centralized anti-virus and anti-malware (AV) solutions. This integration helps eliminate agent sprawl and AV storm issues while minimizing the risk of malware infection and simplifying AV administration. OffsiteCloud also supports integration with RSA SecurID for 2-factor authentication requirements.

Availability and Scalability:
OffsiteCloud delivers high availability, with no single point of failure. High Availability (HA) ensures automatic failover and provides pervasive, cost-effective protection within your virtualized desktop environment to ensure service level agreements are met and downtime is minimized. Advanced clustering capabilities on the physical and virtual layers provide enterprise-class scalability with no single point of failure. OffsiteCloud can also be integrated with existing systems management platforms already deployed within the enterprise.

View Client with Local Mode:
The OffsiteCloud Client with Local Mode increases productivity by allowing end-users to run managed virtual desktops locally or in the datacenter through the same administration framework. Simply download a virtual desktop onto the local client device where the operating system, applications, and data can be accessed with or without a network connection. Offline users can synchronize desktop changes back to the datacenter when they return to the network. All of the contents of the desktop are secure within an encrypted desktop image while all existing IT security policies for that virtual desktop continue to be applied and enforced regardless of network connection.

Thin Application Support:
OffsiteCloud supports a wide variety of third-party thin application deployments. Reduce the time of application roll-out and upgrade by eliminating the cumbersome task of thick-application installations.

Reduce the Time and Cost of Windows 7 Migration by 50%
Double the speed of Windows 7 migrations and cut costs in half by rapidly provisioning virtual desktops that end users can access without upgrading their hardware, and by virtualizing legacy applications to eliminate OS compatibility issues.

Simplify Remote and Branch Office IT Operations
Deliver high performance virtual desktops from behind the corporate firewall to remote or branch offices such as retail stores, bank branches, medical offices, and even offshore facilities to empower users while reducing support and maintenance costs.

Enable Agile Business Process Outsourcing
Rapidly extend IT resources to third-party service providers without sacrificing control over security policies or administrative privileges, using OffsiteCloud to centrally host virtual desktops and applications that authorized users outside the organization can access through a secure network connection on desktops and thin clients.

Extend Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery to Desktops
Leverage automated failover, load balancing, backup and recovery and other built-in datacenter-class business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities to protect desktop data and ensure continuous availability for end-users at a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional solutions.

Support Users on the Go with Follow-Me Desktops
Enable ultra-mobile users to roam freely from location to location by giving them anytime, anywhere access to familiar, personalized desktop environments and critical applications, while keeping patient records and other sensitive data secure and protected in the datacenter.

OffsiteCloud modernizes desktop and application management by enabling you to create a private desktop cloud for delivering dynamic virtual desktops on demand over any network to end users on any device.