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Alternative Desktop ROI Comparison

February 6, 2010

Environmental factors increasing pressure for new solutions

Audit/Control requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley, etc.

New legislation; i.e., eDiscovery

Desire for ‘Green’ solutions

Security and Identity theft grow

Disasters

Technology Improvements bringing forth new solutions today

Server blades & virtualization (VMWare: ESX, GSX, VDI)

Software virtualization (MS Softricity, Altiris SVS, LANDesk Thinstall)

Network bandwidth

Video Compression

Emerging Technologies will improve over current offerings

Redirect native windows requests to virtual devices [Hypervisor]

Effective boot over network [iSCSI]

Alternative Desktop ROI Comparison

Current Cost Structure per seat
HW Cost
Base lined via
Traditional PC
SW Cost
Base lined via
Traditional Console
3 yr TCO Cost
Facilities Cost
ROI
Thin Client
52%
82%
$ 1200
$ 1,700
104 %
Desktop Virtualization
195%
336%
$ 1800
$ 6,500
– 19 %
SMC
95%
100%
(+SA)
$ 2100
$  580
288 %
Desktop Blade
172% to 213%
110%
$ 2100
$ 8,700
– 23 %
Traditional Desktop
Baseline
Baseline
$ 7200
Minimal

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