Long View Systems presentation to VMware Knowledge Series on End User Computing. What are we seeing in the field in EUC, what are some approaches for success that can be applied to make projects and adoption more successful.

1. End User Computing
Notes from the field
James Charter, VCDX
Practice Director, Virtualization Solutions
Thursday, April 25, 2013

2. AGENDA
•About Long View
•What are We Seeing?
•Approaches for Success
•How Can We Help?

3. About
Long View
One of the most powerful IT Solutions and
Services Company
Offices across North America
Industry leading expertise in key technology
innovations and best practices
Best People.
Best Practices.
Best Value.
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Innovative, flexible, cost-effective, and
business focused
A people-focused corporate culture
dedicated to “Being the Best”

4. Key Statistics:
Quick Stats
What we do
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• Largest and Fastest Growing IT
Solutions Company 10 to 1000
employees, $2M to $270M+ in 13
years
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Calgary (CDN HQ), Vancouver,
Victoria, Edmonton, Toronto,
Denver (USA HQ), Houston, Dallas,
Phoenix
750+ employees are technical today
2013 total headcount trending to
1100+
Privately owned and debt free,
focused organic growth in leading
technology areas

5. Strategic
Partners
• VMware Premier Solution Provider (Canada/US)
• VMware Enterprise Service Provider
• Cisco Gold Partner
• EMC Velocity Solution Provider Partner
• VCE Solution Provider (Canada/US)
• HP Converged Infrastructure Elite Partner
• NetApp Star Partner
• FlexPod Premium Partner (only Canadian Partner)
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6. What we do
ASSESSMENTS:
PLANNING AND DESIGN:
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Environment Health Checks
Full Technology Assessments
Operational Readiness
Assessments
Business cases and ROI analysis
SOLUTIONS:
Virtualization
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Converged Infrastructure
Private Cloud / Infrastructure as-aService
Public Cloud
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Application Virtualization
Infrastructure and Packaging
Architect and Design Solutions
Proof of Concepts and Pilots
Disaster Recovery Planning
Solution Strategies and
Roadmaps
MANAGEMENT AND
OPTIMIZATION:
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Backup and Recovery
Performance and Capacity
Management
Availability, Monitoring and
Alerting solutions
Systems Automation,
Provisioning and Capacity
Allocation

7. What are We
Seeing?
Infrastructure Technology Changes
• Flash Storage/Caching Technologies
• Converged Infrastructure
Infrastructure
• Bigger CPU’s removing barriers for workloads
• Better faster data coverage for remote users
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8. What are We
Seeing?
New Devices
• Tablets getting more use in the office
End Points
• More infrastructure required to support additional
devices, security landscape is changing
• BYOD/SYOM getting even more realistic for some
businesses
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9. What are We
Seeing?
Windows
• Still a Windows World… for now
• Windows XP still running in lots of businesses
End Points
• Windows 7 still getting adopted
• Windows 8 coming in on tablets first
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10. What are We
Seeing?
What are people doing now?
• Starting to look at the new opportunities
• Application Virtualization still in silos
EUC Infrastructure
Today
• Thick applications on desktops
• Traditional application presentation
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11. What are We
Seeing?
Interests on the Rise
• Renewed interest in 3D for VDI
• New interest in ROBO use cases
Infrastructure
• More interest in distributed services, workload and
application mobility
• BYOD
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12. Approaches
for Success
Two simple things to keep in mind, and start with them…
It’s about applications!
What is this all
about?
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It’s about your users!

13. Approaches
for Success
Determine what your business needs
• Where are your users? What do they need? How do
they use applications? How is this changing?
Applications
• Plan an application delivery strategy
• Align your application delivery to be agile, virtualize as
much as possible whenever possible
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14. Approaches
for Success
Determine what you have, Rationalize what you need
• Survey your application base, audit your endpoints
• Understand the inter-dependencies
Applications
• Application Rationalization, simplify your install base
• Application Life Cycle, simplify your versions
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15. Approaches
for Success
Know your users
• What is their experience now? Make sure it is better to
get buy in
Users
• Know their use case and what applications matter
• Ensure success, have pilot user groups
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16. Approaches
for Success
Live like a user
• Try the use cases yourself, live it to know it
Users
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• Consider white glove or enhanced service teams for
better user transition and support

17. Questions??
Questions
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18. How can we
help?
Interested in moving forward with your own integrations?
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Drop by the Long View table, tell us your story, and talk
with one of our experts
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Ask to have one of our Account team book a meeting to
discuss your requirements
Contact us
Email: info@longviewsystems.com
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19. Contact Us
James Charter
Practice Director, Virtualization Solutions
Main: 403.515.6900
Email: james.charter@lvs1.com
Let’s get
connected.
Facebook
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Linkedin
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20. Thank You