TalonFAST VDI Data Sheet - Cloud Distribution

Datasheet | Enhancing the Performance of Citrix VDI
How Talon FAST enhances the Performance
of Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
About Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
More IT departments are consolidating services in the datacenter
using server-based computing and virtualization technologies such
as Citrix, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or Terminal Services.
But transmitting applications and data from a centralized server
significantly increases the amount of bandwidth required. Application
performance degrades, particularly when they are graphics intensive,
such as interactive presentations or training and multiple VDI Image
farms. Talon’s View FAST optimizes and enhances VDI strategies
by providing a solution to manage enterprise VDI image management.
View FAST specifically designed for Citrix/ICA and RDP protocols
enhances end user performance and productivity.
Considerations of VDI over the WAN
VDI provides a technological infrastructure giving access to applications
over the wide area network thereby presenting and evoking the
need to address challenges inherent within the enterprise.
The current deployment considerations of VDI may include:
• Performance will decline due to the WAN latency and bandwidth,
VDI-based protocols are affected by the attributes of the WAN such
as high latency and low bandwidth.
• The number of users which can simultaneously run is decreased
over the WAN due to high latency and low bandwidth.
• Other tasks which are batch-like in nature will have low performance.
Examples of this include printing over the WAN and presentation
streaming.
• No infrastructure is available for distinguishing business priorities
between different tasks running over the WAN.
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure can be costly and complex to manage.
• VDI poses additional challenges for classic WAN optimization solutions.
The section below discusses these challenges and details
the benefits of Talon View FAST it meets the VDI challenges.
From now on, IT administrators can centrally manage VDI images and
distribute software updates in real-time, while end users enjoy a local
experience, even when the WAN is unavailable.
100% Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Delivered. FAST

Understanding Talon View FAST
View FAST enables a distributed Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI) environment with the objective to deliver 100% application performance
and manageability while centralizing VDI images in the data
center. This use case leverages a next-generation application delivery
model for users, using VDI in enterprise remote locations, while maintaining
VDI integrity and adhering to today’s security principles.
By leveraging VDI infrastructure solutions such as Microsoft Windows
Server and Citrix XenDesktop Controller and Citrix Provisioning
Services in conjunction with Talon FAST, enterprises can deliver highspeed
and secure access applications on thin clients or mobile devices
such as Android, iPad and iPhone while publishing a local storage
replica for the actual shared data used by those thin client applications.
Simplify and Secure VDI management
Centrally managing a VDI image store is paramount to the success
of the business. View FAST enables rapid deployment of software
packages, operating system updates, patches and security updates,
incrementally updating changes to the VDI images, while maintaining
coherency and consistency throughout the global enterprise network.
Meeting End User Expectations
Talon FAST solutions lower the costs involved in rolling out
virtual desktop infrastructure, reducing the bandwidth needed
and also maximizing the use of resources in the datacenter. The
result is an effective, efficient network, and storage solution that
meets end-user performance requirements and expectations.
• With View FAST user capacity is reliably extended on the
existing infrastructure.
• VDI Image management benefits up to 50% reduction in IT
costs and TCO per user.
• Users are more productive because of the improved application
delivery performance.
• Datacenter storage resources are extended without compromises,
leveraging existing remote storage.
Talon FAST core functionality provides pre-population and
pre-staging of data, utilizing bandwidth off hours, seamlessly
streamlining distribution of VDI images. View FAST acceleration,
caching and compression working in close concert to
enable a high performance environment.
Centralize VDI Management
Talon FAST speeds up large file transfers up
to 400 times — incrementally differencing data,
which allows for centralized management of VDI
images. ensuring user and application performance
while significantly improving remote user
experience using enterprise applications.
Seamless Global Collaboration
For each branch office Talon FAST leverages
a LAN-like storage replica, compressing and
streaming data back to the datacenter while users
continue to work on projects and data sets.
Speeding up File-Aware Applications
• Experience LAN-Like performance in low bandwidth/high latency branch office locations
• Deliver Critical Applications to Business Units from your distributed Virtual Desktop
Enabling the Virtual Desktop Workforce
• Centrally manage your VDI images while ensuring 100% performance for remote workers in the branch
• Off-load your datacenter VDI farm’s processing power and process high performance tasks regionally
• Introducing Real-time Collaboration ‘inside’ the Virtual Desktop while ensuring 24/7 productivity to the end user
Simplifying Branch Office IT infrastructure
• Branch-office-in-a-box Technology, designed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 hosted platform
• Available in physical, virtual appliance and as a software package (any 3rd party HW)
• Certified for hosting Active Directory, DNS, DFS, DHCP, Software Distribution and local File and Print services
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