Recent events have seen many organisations ramp up their Remote Worker platforms - Citrix/RDS/Horizon/VDI/WVD. All these systems have been stretched over the past few weeks as organisations push their users out the door to work from home.

2. Scaling your Remote Workers
3 ways to maximise performance and reduce costs
Shane Wescott – Security/UWM Technical Evangelist

3. Agenda
§ What’s the Current Challenge ?
§ What have we done in the Past ?
§ 3 Key Tips
§ Demos
§ Summary

4. What’s the Current
Challenge ?

5. Current Challenge – Covid-19 Response
§ Many offices closed
§ Staff working from home
§ Focus is now on performance
and cost cutting

6. What have we done in the past ?

7. Stories – Sydney based Plumbing supplier
§ Server based computing platform
§ 180 servers hosting users @ $20k per
annum per server
§ Reduce server count by 40 saving
$800K per annum

8. Stories – Electrical Wholesaler Melbourne
§ Server Based Computing for
ERP application
§ 55 servers @ $1.5K per
month
§ Reduced to 38 servers saving
$25.5K per month- ROI in less
than 3 months

9. Stories – Cloud Based Desktop
§ Comparing performance and
cost for cloud based desktop
§ Going with a lower spec
desktop saves money
§ My savings are around $35
per month

10. Stories – Cloud Based Desktop

11. 3 Key Tips

12. 3 Key Tips – Maximum capacity and scalability
§ Capacity testing can identify
SBC scalability
§ Real testing needs to be on
production systems
§ Pro-active monitoring and
actions on performance issues

13. 3 Key Tips – Consistent performance
§ Identify and control rogue
apps
§ Granular CPU and memory
management
§ Manage disconnected or
background sessions

14. 3 Key Tips – Reduce hosting costs (cloud or on-prem)
§ Do your testing with production
workloads
§ Lower spec VM’s or less SBC
architecture
§ Optimise performance for key
business apps

15. Demos – Show Me J

16. Summary

17. Summary
§ Real World capacity testing is critical
§ Granular control means less cost and consistent performance
§ Talk to Ivanti – we can helpJ

18. Next Steps?

19. Thank You
Shane.Wescott@ivanti.com