Citrix/RDP are designed for bandwidth optimization and seem like a good fit, I'm guessing cost is your bigger concern here? Licensing for pool of VM desktops will probably cost more than per-user seat licenses. A Win7 OS isn't any cheaper virtualized than it is physical.
Now if you have 400 employees but only 25 concurrent users, then yeah 25 Win7 licenses are probably cheaper than 400 RDS or Citrix seat licenses, but keep in mind a pool of 25 desktop OS's is going to take a lot more resources than 25 Citrix/RDS clients for any given scenario. You're also patching / AV-ing 25 OS's vs 1 Citrix/RDP, etc... David Lum Systems Engineer // NWEATM Office 503.548.5229 // Cell (voice/text) 503.267.9764 From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 8:10 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Citrix/RDP Alternatives? We have a few in-house Windows applications that are pretty heavy on bandwidth so aren't easy to run/provision over a VPN. Are there any options out there that work off concurrent use rather than named user or device? Seems that the likes of Citrix or Ericom still rely on having a Terminal Services box underneath as does (obviously) Remote App. One option, and it's not something I have experience of, may be a pool of virtual desktops? Any ideas would be appreciated. Paul ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
