VD Networks leverages the vast collective experience of its team professionals by means of a set of standardized and well-documented IT problem-solving approaches we call SolutionPathsSM. Continuously honed over the last twenty years to incorporate a steady evolution of practices and technologies over time, they reflect the company’s insights into business consulting workflows, process and client support best practices, and more.

SolutionPathsSM enables VD Networks' technologists to support repeatable, high-quality engagements of any size and create tailored solutions for clients while profiting from past experiences.

Across such practice areas such as data centers, cloud computing, remote office operations, networking, security, and others, VD Networks applies SolutionPathsSM to such tasks as Strategic project planning and blueprinting—customized for your organization and its specific needs Business structure assessments—to help create or amplify IT best practices Process and workflow standardization Facility walkthroughs and technology inventories IT risk management Current- and future-state technology assessments—including the best possible leveraging of existing infrastructure and systems, along with migration and upgrade pathways to newer, modernized computing paradigms (e.g., from on-premises to a hybrid cloud strategy) Financial and operational modeling—including IT capital planning to help your organization realize its desired technology and business goals Security assessments Compliance reviews Benchmarking, testing and diagnostics IT sourcing, procurement and support contract solutions

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Behind the scenes, at any organization, fielding a virtual workplace are several vital software components woven into an overall virtualization architecture.

• Server Virtualization – The capability to run multiple virtual instances of operating systems on a single piece of hardware is the most common consideration when IT people think of virtualization. Several vendors provide this ability: Microsoft, VMWare, Citrix, and Nutanix. And while the general functions are the same across all these providers, the platform chosen will provide different feature sets and capabilities.
• Desktop Virtualization – Providing virtual desktops for end-users to perform their day-to-day activities—that leverage hypervisors in the data center—is an essential component of supporting an organization’s virtual workplace capabilities. Technologies like Citrix Virtual Desktops, VMWare Horizon, or Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop apply a many-to-one approach with “single image management” enabling allowing IT administrators to configure a single “gold” computing environment, or image, and deploy it to hundreds or thousands of users with minimal management overhead. Virtual desktop solutions provide users with a fully functional desktop environment complete with applications, login scripts, and file storage shares to enable performance of their daily work tasks, generally with network protocols that allow employees to have a user experience similar if not identical to sitting at a familiar standalone desktop or laptop machine.

• Application Virtualization – This class of software technology enables organizations to prepare applications for deployment to their user base without having to natively install them on each individual desktop, laptop, or other computing endpoint device. Products like Citrix Virtual Apps (formerly XenApp) and Microsoft RemoteApp prepare applications to run on separate virtual machines in a datacenter, allowing users to run on various separate machines. Other technologies like Microsoft App-V or VMWare ThinApp allow applications to be prepackaged and copied to individual machines.
   
• Network Security and Stability – Leveraging Application Delivery Controllers, such as those from Citrix and Kemp, allow organizations to secure and deliver web-based applications to their end users with greatly enhanced security. Additionally, platforms such as VMWare NSX enhance the security of deployed virtual networks.
   
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity – Virtualization takes on a key role in an organization’s planning for what to do when the worst happens. Choosing the right strategy and the right products help ensure that when action must be taken, failover and failback is as seamless as possible.
   
• Hybrid Environments – Public cloud providers increasingly co-exist with modern datacenters, whether it takes the form of extending on-premises offerings, minimizing hardware procurement, or playing a larger, more active role in the disaster recovery process. When done correctly, linking cloud providers to datacenters can provide your organization with unparalleled flexibility.

Virtualization offerings can be used to address common business and technical challenges. Scenario 1: Be prepared to handle the unexpected Beyond just providing resources to implement the servers necessary to run your infrastructure, making sure your organization is making the best use of its IT investment will help ensure readiness for the unexpected. VD Networks has helped customers navigate the complexities of moving from a single physical data center to that a fully resilient “always on” strategy that takes full advantage of features already available in current platform technology. Sometimes all that is required is demystifying process and getting to the mission-critical goals of your organization—like keeping computing resources available regardless of adverse conditions like extended power or site outages. In the event of a site outage, having the right resources—like VMWare Site Recovery Manager to bring your disaster recovery site online and populated—is a key enablement tool. Additionally, capabilities like Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) from a capable ADC provides resiliency for web-based applications.

Scenario 2: Remote doesn’t have to mean less productive During the last year, many organizations made a rapid shift to employees working remotely outside their normal office environments, and with that shift came the realization that users’ personal devices are not generally up to the requirements of a traditional office PC. Even if quickly deploying VPN connections to all users is possible—which carries its own security considerations—issues such as the proper application sets for users to work effectively must be addressed. Implementing a robust virtual desktop solution like that offered by Citrix Virtual Desktops allows for rapid deployment of secured desktops to accommodate a large and diverse user base—including all required applications, data access, and other resources—regardless of an individual users location in a traditional office or home/remote office setting.

Scenario 3: Managing a sprawling infrastructure Having lots of powerful tools and hardware at your disposal is great, but it still needs to be managed properly to ensure that everything is implemented in a logical manner and that resources are not given away haphazardly without a thought to providing ongoing support. Leveraging tools like VRealize Operations has helped customers gain precise data center metrics to ensure that smooth operations continue. Many of those same customers also see benefits with VRealize Automation to provide for orchestration and provisioning.

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Virtualization offerings can be used to address common business and technical challenges. Scenario 1: Be prepared to handle the unexpected Beyond just providing resources to implement the servers necessary to run your infrastructure, making sure your organization is making the best use of its IT investment will help ensure readiness for the unexpected. VD Networks has helped customers navigate the complexities of moving from a single physical data center to that a fully resilient “always on” strategy that takes full advantage of features already available in current platform technology. Sometimes all that is required is demystifying process and getting to the mission-critical goals of your organization—like keeping computing resources available regardless of adverse conditions like extended power or site outages. In the event of a site outage, having the right resources—like VMWare Site Recovery Manager to bring your disaster recovery site online and populated—is a key enablement tool. Additionally, capabilities like Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) from a capable ADC provides resiliency for web-based applications.

Scenario 2: Remote doesn’t have to mean less productive During the last year, many organizations made a rapid shift to employees working remotely outside their normal office environments, and with that shift came the realization that users’ personal devices are not generally up to the requirements of a traditional office PC. Even if quickly deploying VPN connections to all users is possible—which carries its own security considerations—issues such as the proper application sets for users to work effectively must be addressed. Implementing a robust virtual desktop solution like that offered by Citrix Virtual Desktops allows for rapid deployment of secured desktops to accommodate a large and diverse user base—including all required applications, data access, and other resources—regardless of an individual users location in a traditional office or home/remote office setting.

Scenario 3: Managing a sprawling infrastructure Having lots of powerful tools and hardware at your disposal is great, but it still needs to be managed properly to ensure that everything is implemented in a logical manner and that resources are not given away haphazardly without a thought to providing ongoing support. Leveraging tools like VRealize Operations has helped customers gain precise data center metrics to ensure that smooth operations continue. Many of those same customers also see benefits with VRealize Automation to provide for orchestration and provisioning.

To learn more about how VD Networks can address your needs, BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION