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Get Virtually Green IT24/04/2009 
OnDemand Desktop™
Virtual Desktops – Get Virtually Green
Green IT is all about doing more with less to conserve your – and mother earth’s – precious resources. The majority of today’s desktop delivery architectures are based on distributed PCs, ypically requiring one PC to be allocated to each employee with a computing responsibility. Sychron has engineered OnDemand Desktop to make replacing PCs possible while improving end user productivity, preserving the PC computing experience, and having the maximum savings impact on three critical resources – electricity, equipment, and IT administrators’ time and effort.
Conservation of Power and Computer Equipment
OnDemand Desktop is a server-based virtual desktop management system that enables the hazed replacement of PCs at every desk with thin clients. Thin clients are solid-state devices with no moving parts and use substantially less electricity than PCs. Virtual desktops (VDTs) are hosted as virtual machines (VMs) on centrally located servers. In a typical infrastructure VDT host servers may substitute for PCs at the rate of roughly one server per fifty PCs. OnDemand desktop minimizes the number of servers needed to host a VDT infrastructure and eliminates the requirement for a SAN. The right sidebar shows an example PCs vs. VDTs comparison that quantifies the yearly electrical savings of a 500 seat implementation.
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