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Finally!
On the heels of a sobering report on how the government is behind in its effort to fully harness virtualization - there’s some good news today.
It appears the Department of Defense did eventually get with the virtualized program and is now using a virtualization tool called virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) by Force 3. And it’s pretty cool too.
The project allows the DoD’s IT department to maintain a single image of the Army Gold Standard for Windows XP and Vista desktop – each time a user is provisioned or logged in, a snapshot is taken of the Gold Standard, applying the proper profile, so each desktop always runs on the latest version of the gold standard with all patches and all upgrades. VDI solution delivers each user’s unique desktop environment, enabling IT to manage change and comply with the DoD agency’s requirements for hundreds of users without compromising user productivity or morale. Force 3 estimates that it can scale to support thousands of employees with only a handful of IT staff.
Now, in an effort to expand this virtualization initiative - and increase awareness of its cost saving, security, and flexibility benefits, Force 3 has teamed up with with a company called AppSense. Together they will be leading the virtualization charge inside the Federal government.
“VDI is an extremely powerful technology that saves organizations a significant amount of money and IT resources. However, users still expect personalized desktops, which only AppSense can enable in an enterprise environment. Force 3 provides exceptional services to the federal government, and we look forward to working with them, bringing our combined solution to other DoD agencies as well as additional federal branches,” said Charles Sharland, CEO of AppSense.
In case you were wondering, VDI is one powerful tool. It includes:
- AppSense Environment Manager, which enables each user to call up his or her specific, personalized desktop environment, whether the user is a military staff member, contractor, or civilian employee. Without this automated user environment management capability, the IT team would not have been able to efficiently provision each new desktop and retain users’ personalization.
- Sun Ray 2 devices, ultra-low power, small footprint clients with a built-in card reader
- VMware View and VMware ESX, which enables the agency to deliver rich desktops to any client device with all of the benefits of centralized management while maximizing efficiencies of the server pool through virtualization.
How’s that for an all-inclusive product?
I like to hear about companies providing top-notch services for our government. They need all the help they can get. Let’s hope the other agencies follow suit.
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