Guest Blog by Jim McHugh, Vice President, Marketing, Cisco Unified Computing System
Last week’s announcement at VMware highlights the continued innovation seen in the end-user computing space, and how important our virtualized or remoted desktop and application solutions are to delivering enterprise workspace mobility, security and business agility.
Industry-Leading Desktop Virtualization
Delivering virtualized or remoted desktops and applications with an exceptional user experience that scales, is central to what Cisco UCS has been offering our customers since its inception. If you’re not familiar with our joint solution, I encourage you to check out this short animated whiteboard video.
Cisco and VMware have a long, distinguished history of collaboration in delivering a complete solution for virtual desktop implementers and their end users.
The Results Speak for Themselves
I’m especially pleased with how our joint solution has delivered industry-leading results. If you check out the infographic shown here, you’ll see just a couple proof points of how Cisco UCS with VMware Horizon (with View) has dramatically moved the needle in terms of TCO, performance and end-user experience.
Our joint customers are using this industry-leading solution to:
- Realize greater employee mobility
- Deliver greater flexibility and choice through BYOD
- Optimize business workflow and increase agility
- Help ensure business continuity and data security
- Reduce client computing costs
Why is Cisco UCS the Best Compute Platform for Desktop Virtualization?
The roster of testimonials in support of the Cisco Desktop Virtualization Solution is growing at a rapid clip. Some great proof points of this success can be found in the case studies we’ve published, across a wide array of industry verticals and deployment scenarios.
- Banco Azteca was able to spin up their VDI pilot in just 3 weeks
- Groupe Mutuel saw zero downtime across more than 500 servers over the span of 3 years
- Indianapolis Public Schools was able to reduce their server footprint from 300 to 17
Core to the success of these deployments is Cisco UCS. Why? If you’ve followed our journey that started five years ago, you already know that we created a compute platform purpose-built for scalable, high-performance virtualization, free of the limitations and encumbrances of traditional compute architectures. For VDI and app delivery, Cisco UCS offers the perfect balance of:
- Industry-leading processing power
- Low-latency, high performance unified fabric
- Stateless provisioning model that streamlines and simplifies operations
Congratulations to VMware on the release of Horizon 6. Our companies have jointly set our sights on driving success for our customers with desktop and app virtualization. Our joint solution founded on Cisco UCS and VMware Horizon is enabling our customers to embrace the transformation of their desktops and applications into mobile workspaces, and we look forward to continued joint innovation in this space.
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