Virtualize your desktops? Six experts share their advice

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Virtualize your desktops? Six experts share their advice -

Virtualizing your desktops is one of the biggest changes that you are likely to encounter in your career as a professional of computer.

it is not enough to reach all users, it affects all the other disciplines of information technology, too (storage, networks, applications, security, work).

Fortunately, you are not the first to virtualize desktops. Many very smart people have been there before and have learned.

In this spirit, we asked six desktop virtualization experts to tell us what great things they want to say. anyone starting on the desktop virtualization journey

And packed us all into a beautiful new eBook, ready to download:

What to know when starting out on a virtual desktop implementation project

Virtualization Deployment Insights Office:
Six experts share their tips

We hope you enjoy reading as much as we enjoyed the put together .

Experts

These guys really know their stuff:

Steve Greenberg

Founder and Chief Architect

Thin client computing

(and Citrix Technology Professional)

Robert Morris

virtualization consultant and trainer

global Advantec services, Inc.

(and professional Citrix technologies)

Jarian Gibson

Virtualization Practice Desktop Manager

Choice Solutions, LLC

Shane Kleinert

Solutions Architect

JDL Technologies

Nick Rintalan

senior Architect

Citrix Consulting services

Dan Allen

Lead Architect

Citrix consulting services

The Board

We did not know what we had when we return approached our experts. So it was somewhat gratifying to discover that they all had very similar ideas about what makes a successful virtualization projects

Some of it may seem obvious, other points will a little surprising -. But we ended up with the feeling that what is really best practice

few soundbites: ..

Get your applications

"clients who struggle the most with desktop virtualization try to treat all applications in the same virtualize and use the same model." Nick

Know your users.

"You have to work with people seated side-by-side and environmental demonstration for them Show them that they can still customize their office;.. Still have the photo their children about it; still access all their data and applications ... " Jarian

actively manage change

" I am a techie. I love technology. But after years and years to do it, I came to see that it will be a human being at the end of this kind of project. And people will help you if they feel heard and appreciated. " Dan

Centralize your data.

" You need all your data close to your applications. It is safer. Easier to save and performance is much better. " Shane

test, test, test.

" POC are performed on low-run equipment. You must watch your servers to determine how many users you can actually get there. You must insist on things to test them! " Robert

Keep it simple.

" The greatest insight I have gained is to keep things simple and only introduce complexity when there is a business case for it. " Steve

Come and get it.

No matter where you are on your own desktop virtualization learning curve - or what stage of the deployment process, you focus on - you'll get a lot of desktop Virtualization Insights eBook .

As the e-book? You will love the accelerator

Once you have read the e-book, you'll also want to set up a project in the Citrix Accelerator Project the new deployment management environment for people like you.

Accelerator is a rich, self-service tools that asks you a few simple questions and then generates personalized recommendations, sample architectures, material estimates and much, much more. Give it a go .

Happy reading and please leave your thoughts in the comments section below!

Lee Friedmann
Sr. Marketing Program Manager
Twitter: @ctxsuccess

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