Project Leadership Associates (PLA) has launched a new Virtualization Solutions Practice led by Mitch Northcutt to provide comprehensive desktop virtualization solutions for organizations with 250 to 5,000 desktops. The practice will help clients streamline their desktop lifecycles through virtualization which can reduce costs, simplify management, and provide users with anytime access while meeting security and compliance needs. PLA's experience in infrastructure design and understanding of differences between server and desktop virtualization positions them to deliver best practices for virtualization deployments.

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2.  Spend less time and focus on hundreds or thousands of end points.
 Simplify the life cycle of desktop management.
 Better meet the end users’ demand for readily available technology.
End user benefits include:
 Anytime/anywhere access to their custom desktop and all applications.
 Convenience, security and privacy with corporate compliance built in.
 Promptly delivered updates with less disruption.
Desktop Virtualization deployments can prove advantageous to those with heavy
regulatory compliance requirements, highly confidential information and many remote
users. Regular updates to custom enterprise software for users becomes seamless,
and updates are completed in a fraction of the time when done from a central point of
control.
“We are excited to launch our virtualization solutions practice with Mitch Northcutt at the
helm,” said Bruce Munies, PLA’s Executive Vice President of Network
Integration. “Mitch’s vast experience and thought leadership in the virtualization space
positions PLA ahead of the curve for desktop virtualization.”
“Many organizations want to take advantage of the savings offered by streamlining their
desktop lifecycle,” Bruce expounded. “But most are stuck in an immature proof-of-
concept phase that has made their forays into DV fraught with error, costlier than
expected and ultimately disappointing. Because of our experience in infrastructure
design and our understanding of the differences between server and desktop
virtualization, PLA clients benefit from best practices right from the start.”
The Virtualization Solutions Practice at PLA designs, plans and deploys Virtual
infrastructures for organizations with 250 to 5,000 desktops. Such DV projects begin
with a thorough impact analysis. Using automated tools to look at the current desktop
environment, user requirements, application dependencies, and storage, the PLA team
then develops a plan to build and operate the DV environment. PLA can provide
technical resources on-site to assist the internal team with implementation until the
solution is production ready. Clients can then leverage PLA’s Management Services to
continue the operation and management of their new DV infrastructure. PLA’s key DV
technology partners include Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare.
For more information on Project Leadership Associates (PLA) and its Virtualization
Solutions Practice, please visit www.projectleadership.net or contact Mitch Northcutt at
(312) 258-5380 or email mnorthcutt@projectleadership.net
About Project Leadership Associates, Inc.
PLA is a business and technology consulting firm that empowers small, middle market
and enterprise organizations with services across four core solution groups: 1) Business
Strategy Execution; 2) Business Operations; 3) Applications; and 4) Infrastructure. PLA

3. has been consistently ranked among Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 list of the fastest
growing companies in America, Crain's Chicago Business’s Fast 50 and Everything
Channel's CRN Fast Growth 100 List as an annual recognition of growth, performance,
and maintaining profitability since its founding in 1998. With headquarters in Chicago
and branch offices in Dallas, Indianapolis, Houston, New Orleans, New York and San
Francisco, PLA is uniquely poised to offer a broad array of solutions that work
collaboratively with clients to help them realize substantial results.