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Managing desktops is considered the most challenging task that IT managers deal with on a day to day basis. Because of this, the ability to have an infrastructure in place that can manage these environments from one central location can have an incredible benefit for a company of any size.

VDI is an acronym that has been buzzing around the IT world, meaning Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.  Years ago the idea behind VDI was considered impractical and exorbitant for companies that were not leading global organizations. Today, there have been several innovative advances in hardware and the overall approach to VDI that make it an affordable solution that is easily deployed throughout organizations of any size. VDI is a solution that integrates hardware, software and management tools that act as a replacement for your standard desktop environments.

VDI has a basic architecture, and is comprised of five components; virtualization being the key :

1.      Thin Client / End-User Access -

A lightweight device that can boot and manage remote connectivity technologies

2.      Connection Broker -

Manages the user connection with the virtualized machines

3.      Virtualized Remote Machine (Windows XP, Vista, Linux etc.) -

End user virtual machine

4.      Virtual Server (Hyper-V, Citrix XenApp or VMWare ESXi)

      Software that allows the hosting of virtual machines

5.      Management Tools -

When choosing a management toolset, you want to make sure that they are simple to use

With all solutions come advantages and disadvantages. Below is a list of some advantages and disadvantages that companies will have to review before implementing a VDI environment:

Advantages

·         Minimizes Operational Expenses with centralized management

·         Simplified Desktop Security

·         Reduce Hardware Costs

·         Leverage the latest mobile devices

·         Improved Data Protection

·         Reduce Energy Costs

·         Increased Resource Efficiencies

·         Constant Uptime

·         Quick and Easy new user set-up

According to a study that Forrester conducted, the deployment of a VDI solution can help eliminate up to 80% of an IT Manager’s workload, this then resulting in minimizing costs associated to support as well as freeing up valuable time to work on other critical elements within the organization.

Disadvantages

·         Reliance on internal connectivity

·         Cost associated with the initial deployment

·         Does not always work with Legacy Software

·         Can’t guarantee outside of office bandwidth is sufficient

VDI solutions are becoming more widespread as we move further into the future. There are several vendors that are currently offering VDI solutions that work with the current market leading platforms such as VMWare, Citrix and Microsoft. It is important that you work with a solution provider to help you choose the products that work best for your organization; Dynamic Computer Corporation has more than 30 years of expertise in providing our customers with the latest technologies to improve their internal practices. With access to all products and solutions available, DCC can be your trusted advisor for everything VDI.

Join us on February 10^th, 2012 at MGM Grand Casino Detroit for a VDI event you can’t afford to miss! Register Here!

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a desktop replacement solution designed to move the more disaster prone and business critical components of an end user device to a virtualized layer within the data center and replace them with a more secure, highly available and easier to manage access device wherever the user is located.

On Friday, February 10th 2012, Join Dynamic Computer Corporation and our partners HP, Citrix and VMWare for an event you can’t afford to miss!!

Early Bird Registration:

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CLICK HERE to register for the event!

Location:

The Grand Ballroom

MGM Grand Casino Detroit

1777 Third Street

Detroit, Michigan 48226

Date & Time:

February 10th, 2012

10am - 6pm

(4pm-6pm Cocktail Hours!)

Hotel Reservation:

Reservations will be telephoned directly to Hotel Reservation Department at 877-888-2121. Be sure to identify your affiliation with the Dynamic Computer Corporation event to ensure that you receive a discounted suite rate! (Cut-off date is Wednesday, January 18th, 2012)

Complimentary Valet will be available at the Hotel entrance!

February 10th, 2012 — 2012 VDI Event (PDF)

We are looking forward to connecting at the event!

Since 1979 Dynamic Computer Corporation has been building relationships with leading IT manufacturers such as Apple, IBM, HP, Dell, Lenovo and many more. Over the past year we have added several new partners and have grown some existing relationships. Below is a sampling of some of these partners that DCC has had great success with over the past year:

Aerohive Networks reduces the cost and complexity of today’s networks with cloud-enabled, distributed Wi-Fi and routing solutions for enterprises and medium-sized companies including branch offices and teleworkers. Aerohive’s award-winning cooperative control Wi-Fi architecture, public or private cloud-enabled network management, routing, and VPN solutions eliminate costly controllers and single points of failure. This gives our customers mission-critical reliability with granular security and policy enforcement as well as the ability to start small and expand without limitations.

Vyatta pioneered the decoupling of routing and security software from proprietary hardware, creating the industry’s first and only platform-independent network operating system, Vyatta Network OS. Vyatta Network OS enables system architects to secure and connect virtual, cloud or physical infrastructures while delivering the same elasticity, mobility, auto-provisioning and utility licensing benefits of the applications they support.

Citrix gives businesses the ability to embrace consumerization using virtualization, networking, collaboration and cloud technologies. With these technologies, Citrix transforming the way business is done. More than 230,000 enterprises rely on Citrix virtualization, networking and cloud solutions to deliver over 100 million corporate desktops and touch 75 percent of internet users each day.

Raritan is a leading provider of secure IT infrastructure management solutions, offering IT and facility directors, managers and administrators the control they need to increase power management efficiency, improve data center productivity and enhance branch office operations. In over 50,000 locations worldwide, Raritan integrated in-band and out-of-band products help companies monitor and manage their energy, servers and other IT devices. The intelligent PDUs, combined with energy management software and environmental sensors, offer remote power control and monitoring at the rack and device level, empowering data center owners with information to improve uptime and capacity planning, while efficiently utilizing energy to save power and money. And Raritan’s access solutions, including KVM, serial and centralized management devices, offer unprecedented control of servers to maintain mission-critical environments.

EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver Information Technology as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

Complex Enterprise-grade Wi-Fi infrastructure is meant to support a large number of demanding devices and is usually purchased through a reseller and installed by professionals. Until Aerohive, this type of Wi-Fi infrastructure was complex to deploy, difficult to configure and manage, and expensive to scale and support.

There has been resistance towards implementing automated technologies in organizations; the argument that machines will replace human workers by increasing productivity with the absence of human intervention. The optimist would see the introduction of new technologies as an open door for us to move forward with enhancements in the way we live and work.

As we move closer into the future we strive to simplify tasks in an effort to free up our time to do whatever else it is that we would be doing if “making the grocery list” was taken off of the “to-do list” or if manually taking inventory was eliminated due to automated receiving areas in warehouses. RFID is doing just that!

RFID solutions are becoming a necessity in many industries. The rapidly reducing cost of tags and increasing efficiency and accuracy of the technology is encouraging organizations to implement RFID and RTLS solutions. It has become extremely easy to integrate RFID with existing infrastructures, allowing organizations to lower operating costs and improve processes.

It is no longer out of the ordinary to hear someone talk about RFID technology and its many different uses as eccentric and bizarre as they may be. Although the technology has been around since the 40’s, RFID has only recently moved into the spotlight. While some applications of RFID may seem to be over the top, there are many more applications available that can only help drive the business world in a positive direction in terms of ROI. Several markets, including manufacturing, DoD, healthcare, financial, pharmaceuticals and automotive, are embracing RFID and the unlimited benefits that it provides through better and limitless visibility.

Cloud computing has followed a parallel course as RFID in regards to its existence in daily conversations. What is “The Cloud”? Cloud users all over the world view cloud computing in different ways. In the world of RFID solution developers, we view the cloud as a tool to share resources in real-time over the internet seamlessly at a fraction of the cost. According to Terso Solutions, “The exploding acceptance of cloud computing is expected to accelerate the adoption of RFID technology over the next 12-24 months. A cloud-based architecture will likely enable a rush to RFID systems by those that deemed the technology too expensive in the past.” With cloud solutions, organizations will have the visibility of oodles of information being pulled from RFID tags every second of every minute of every day.

Organizations will experience several advantages when setting up RFID solutions using the cloud. These advantages include, and are certainly not limited to: 1) the elimination of costs associated with building infrastructures 2) IT staff will experience updates on a more regular basis 3) user friendly functionality 4) visibility companywide and outside the organizations four walls 5) constant up time and the obvious lower overall IT costs.

What does this mean for the future of RFID and the cloud? Stay tuned to find out.

Paul Frisch is the CTO of RFID Healthcare Consortium, a non-profit organization that is vendor neutral and dedicated to educating healthcare professionals about the benefits of RFID technology and its use in healthcare settings. In the below video Paul Frisch explains that the purpose behind the organizations “Hospital Patient SMART Room RFID Showcase” is to extend the knowledge of the potential uses of RFID within a healthcare organizations.

Hospitals already have a variety of technologies that are being utilized and RFID provides a connectivity piece that enables these applications to work together in several different ways. Frisch explains that there are 3 main uses that the RFID Healthcare Consortium is pushing to educate:

·         RFID automates Patient data

·         RFID provides a visualization of “floor activity”

·         RFID increase patient care and safety.

RFID in Healthcare

HAIs are associated with 98,000 deaths annually in the US alone not to mention increased costs and length of stay (LOS). According to Health Public Reports, “HAIs in hospitals are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States.” The CDC released a report showing that the percentage of infections caused by MRSA grew from 22% to 63% from 1995 to 2004.

A hospital in Bangalore, India has managed to eliminate HAIs. In Bangalore labor costs can be as low as $1 a day, this hospital was able to hire employees to sit outside each “room” and dispense sanitizer directly into the hands of each individual as they entered and exited the rooms. The number of HAIs dropped to 0 after this procedure was put into place.

In the United States there are many campaigns to promote evidenced-based practices in efforts to improve the compliance rate, and yet the hospital acquired infections and conditions continue to increase year after year. With the use of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and RTLS (Rea-Time Location Systems) to help monitor compliance and change the culture of our healthcare organizations, we too can drop our number of HAIs to 0!

Hand hygiene is an incremental component that protects patients and healthcare workers from healthcare associated infections (HAIs). Clean Hands SAVE LIVES!

The WHO (World Health Organization) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. Responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends.

The WHO has lauched a “Save Lives” initiative in an effort to eliminate HAIs. Below is a link to the latest Hand Hygiene Rap. ENJOY!

The WHO 5: Hand Hygiene Rap

It is here! HP has lauched the new TouchPad, a 9.7-inch tablet operating on HP’s new WebOS system. Check it out!

HP WebOS: Quick tutorial on the functions!