Cost reduction on virtualized computing platforms
In today's economic climate, we understand the need to cut IT costs and maximize available budget in a tangible way. There are eight ways in which AppSense technology has been proven to significantly reduce IT costs in virtual environments. Click on the links below to learn more!
Reduction In Profile Corruption
How does AppSense save on average $1,004 per user over three years?
Based on Gartner figures, using AppSense to reduce the frequency of profile corruption saves an organization on average $1,004 per user over 3 years. AppSense has a Return On Investment period of 2 months, equating to a saving of $16 for every $1 spent.
Profile corruption leads to employee downtime and dissatisfaction. IT spend time troubleshooting and rebuilding the user profiles, an unnecessary operational cost to the organization.
AppSense significantly reduces the occurrence of profile corruption, with customers experiencing complete elimination of profile corruption and profile related support calls.
It took less than two weeks to collect all of the user profile information and convert it to AppSense profiles. As soon as this was completed, our profile corruption completely disappeared. Given we were previously having at least one user per day experiencing some form of inconvenience as a result of profile corruption, this was a great result.
Andy Fisher, Manager of Technical Services, UTMB.
Reduction In Profile Corruption Remediation Costs
How does AppSense save an organization on average $1,038 per user over 3 years?
Based on Gartner figures, using AppSense to reduce the time to fix a profile issue saves $1,038 per user over 3 years. This means a Return On Investment period of 4 months, equating to a saving of $12 for every $1 spent.
The remediation of a corrupt profile is a time consuming and costly process, including fixing the problem, and loss of user productivity.
AppSense reduces support cost by rolling back a profile to a last known good state. During this process the user is still able to work and the whole rollback process takes only minutes.
AppSense has delivered the improvements and cost savings we asked for while increasing productivity. It is rich with helpful technology and I'm certain there are more benefits to come but I'm really impressed with what we have been able to achieve so quickly.
Spencer Taylor, Projects and Governance Manager, Royal London Group.
Faster User Logon Times
How does AppSense save an organization $841 per user over 3 years?
Based on Gartner figures, AppSense reduces logon times from 3 minutes to 30 seconds. That's a saving of $841 per user over 3 years, or 30 hours per user over 3 years. Also a Return On Investment period of 4 months, equating to a saving of $8 for every $1 spent.
User profiles are susceptible to bloat, often growing to several gigabites and are usually loaded into a user session at logon. This causes performance degradation at logon, resulting in excessive logon times for users.
With AppSense, user settings are dynamically streamed as needed, dramatically reducing the amount of data loaded at logon. Employees experience over 80% reduction in logon times, reducing cost and increasing productivity.
Our pilot with AppSense Environment Manager demonstrated to us that we could keep the central management of profiles and reduced logon times from seven minutes to six seconds. That is a 99% reduction! It was so astounding that we stopped the pilot immediately and rolled it out across the board.
Trevor Allen, Supervisor of Infrastructure Services, Conexus Credit Union.
Reduce Microsoft Application License Costs
How does AppSense reduce the number of Microsoft Application Devices by upto 90%?
Based on Gartner figures, using AppSense to reduce the number of Microsoft licenses by 90% will save $1,905 per user over 3 years. This is a Return On Investment period of 4 months, equating to a saving of $8 for every $1 spent.
Microsoft applications are licensed on a per-device basis, meaning a license is required for each device that is able to access the application. This model requires more consideration when applications are installed centrally on a server on in a virtual desktop, as applications may be licensed for more devices than there are users who run the application.
Using AppSense, a granular rule set enables the Administrator to restrict access to applications by device name or IP address, reducing the required number of Microsoft licenses.
Ensuring Microsoft application licence compliance in virtual environments (UK)
Case Study - Chandler Macleod (UK)
White Paper - Windows Terminal Server Software Licensing Control (UK)
AppSense gives the ability to control the users and devices that have access to specific applications, thereby avoiding the purchase of enormous number of superfluous licenses.
Dave Thomas, CIO, Chandler Macleod
More Users Per Server / Server Consolidation
Based on Gartner figures, AppSense reduces server count by 40%. That's an average saving of $8,531 per server over 3 years and a Return On Investment period of 5 months, equating to a saving of $6 for every $1 spent
Unmanaged server resources such as CPU, memory and disk negatively impacts the number of concurrent users a server can support, resulting in high IT capital and operational costs, such as; Hardware, Power, Cooling, Maintenance, Software, Licensing.
Using AppSense to optimize server resources at an application, process and thread level, the number of concurrent users supported by a server can be increased by as much as 40%.
I was amazed by how much we saved. We were looking at spending $30,000 on hardware, storage and support to roll out an additional three Citrix servers. For a third of that we implemented AppSense Performance Manager. Even our most resource intensive applications can fit double the number of users on each Citrix server - which is a 100% improvement on server utilization too.
Adam Wilson, Citrix Administrator, Grange Insurance.
Improve Quality of Service / Reduce Server Lockups
How does AppSense save an organization on average $1,613 per user over 3 years?
Based on Gartner figures, using AppSense to prevent resource bottlenecks and lockups saves $1,613 per user over 3 years. This means a Return On Investment period of 4 months, equating to a saving of $12 for every $1 spent.
Unmanaged server resources such as CPU, memory and disk can impact the quality of service each user receives, such as applications taking an unacceptable length of time to respond.
Using AppSense to optimize server resources at the application level, employees receive optimal quality of service at all times.
Many applications such as Excel and Lotus Notes are very demanding on our systems and have noticeably degraded the quality of service to users in the past. We are now working to commercial SLA’s with our customers, so by using AppSense Performance Manager we can be confident that everyone gets an equal share of the service they are paying for and that performance is at an optimum.
Rob Jones, IT Services Development Director. Alstom
Reduce Application Management Costs
How does AppSense save an organization on average $2,385 per application over 3 years?
Based on Gartner figures, using AppSense to replace complex access policies saves $2,385 per application over 3 years. This means a Return On Investment period of 8 months, equating to a saving of $4 for every $1 spent.
Software Restriction Policies (SRPs) is a tool for controlling the desktop, applications and security settings presented to a user. However, these are notoriously complex, time consuming and costly to set up and maintain.
AppSense achieves all the benefits of SRPs without the complex scripting and troubleshooting required. Setting up and maintaining application access rules is graphical, intuitive and scalable.
AppSense Application Manager has handed us back complete control over our servers and enabled us to escape the constant cycle of server rebuilds. From a peak of a server rebuild every 3 weeks we have just passed 6 months without having to give it a thought.
Marty Stenius, IT Operations Manager, Akibia.
Reduce Carbon Footprint and Data Center Costs
How does AppSense save an average of 3,120 kWH per server over 3 years?
Based on Gartner figures, using AppSense to reduce server count by 40% will save an 3,120 kWH per server over 3 years. This equates to as much CO2 produced by a passenger plane from New York to Los Angeles and back to New York, Per Server!
By optimizing server resources such as CPU, Memory and Disk it is possible to consolidate your datacenter, getting the maximum value for your kW hours and leading to huge savings per year in power and cooling costs and a significant reduction in carbon footprint. Consolidating 100 physical servers by 40% could save more than 120,000 kWh each year, cutting over 50 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The group has reduced its server count by 450, achieved a 20% reduction in IT operational expenditure, reduced Reed's carbon output by 2,500 tonnes (20%) and cut their electricity bills by $200,000 per annum. Reed won the 2008 City of London Resource Conservation Award, known as a Green Oscar.
Sean Whetstone, Head of IT Services. Reed Managed Services
