Optimizing Performance
As more enterprise computing moves into the datacenter, performance and cost optimization take on higher strategic importance to IT teams. Any degradation to the computing experience translates into lost business productivity and damage to the IT team’s credibility. As users begin to perform diverse activities on a shared server infrastructure, it is essential to prevent the actions of one user from impacting others negatively. In addition, making performance optimization a core competency allows IT teams to maximize the value of their datacenter investments rather than simply “throwing more hardware at the problem.”
The AppSense User Virtualization Platform allows IT to exercise tight control over key computing resources such as CPU, memory, and disk. The result is a consistent, high-quality user experience that also reduces infrastructure costs by maximizing the number of users per server.
Improved User Experience
The adaptive performance controls included in the AppSense User Virtualization Platform optimize the user experience on server-based desktop and application infrastructure by:
- Automatically preventing disk I/O bottlenecks
- Dynamically reclaiming and reassigning physical memory
- Throttling poorly behaving applications
- Prioritizing hardware resource access for business-critical applications
As users roam between traditional PCs and server-based desktops and applications, they enjoy seamless and responsive experience at all times. This fosters a higher level of user acceptance of new computing models, as user enjoy the increased flexibility of a more dynamic computing environment without making performance and convenience trade-offs.
Hardware Cost Reduction
For most IT teams, the pressure to do more with less never wavers. With virtualization projects, the stakes are even higher as one slight miscalculation on the expected number of users per server can lead to major cost overruns and unpleasant boardroom conversations.
The performance controls provided by the AppSense User Virtualization Platform have been proven to increase user density by up to 40 percent. For an organization with 100 servers, that translates into 120,000 kWh in annual energy savings, reducing corporate expenses and eliminating over 50 tons of CO2 emissions each year.
For many organizations, the hardware and energy savings alone justify the purchase of the AppSense User Virtualization Platform.
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