Solutions

• Security
• Infrastructure
• Identity/Access Management
• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
• Change Management
• E-Learning/Distributed Teaching and Learning
• Staffing/HR Management/Training

Provide enhanced security through virtualization

Ensure the security of your IT resources while operating within a culture of openness and decentralization with virtual machine and virtual server security.  Provision virtual servers and virtual PCs in minutes with security levels that are beyond what a purely physical infrastructure can provide.  Manage desktops across the organization.  Keep them virus-free and updated with the latest software licenses purchased by your institution.  Prolong the life of your investment in educational software by continuing to run old versions of operating systems.

• Provide locked environments even if a computer gets stolen through VMware ACE and VMware View.
• Control and manage remote desktops from a central location.
• Deliver remote access to server-based virtual PCs and eliminate security holes.
• Provision fully-managed virtual machines for temporary workers in just minutes.

Optimize your IT infrastructure with server consolidation

Consolidate physical servers and simplify your management and provisioning. You’ll be able to reduce costs while improving your flexibility and responsiveness with server consolidation. 

• Reduce IT costs by increasing server utilization by as much as 80%
• Manage your virtual infrastructure from a single point of control
• Automate resource management and deliver services on-demand

Control identity and manage access

Deliver virtual desktops to telecommuters, remote students and faculty, and others in the field without compromising security policies. Host virtual desktops in the datacenter to deliver remote access to server-based virtual PCs through a secure network connection.

• Eliminate the risks of laptop theft by keeping desktop images and sensitive information behind your firewall rather than out on laptops.
• Integrate with your existing access control and policy enforcement infrastructure.
• Provision virtual desktops for faculty and staff from a central datacenter.

Reduce downtime and provide improved business continuity

Eliminate planned service disruptions with non-disruptive backup and restore processes. Protect your data and systems, deliver high availability, and provide improved disaster recovery processes through virtualization.

• Protect your data and get reliable non-disruptive backups plus an easy-to-use reliable recovery process.
• Deliver high availability independent of hardware, operating systems, and applications.
• Create a cost-effective reliable disaster recovery solution by repurposing existing servers instead of duplicating hardware.

Give each student the right environment for learning

Don’t be constrained by the old “one computer-one operating system” paradigm.  Deploy hardware-independent virtual PCs so that each student has the exact environment they need for whatever they want to learn. Simplify the management and deployment of your desktop provisioning.

• Reduce costs and increase control when you provision desktops from a central location.
• Enable stronger policy enforcement and tighter data security when you encapsulate the desktop operating system, applications, and user data.
• Run multiple versions of multiple operating systems on the same physical machine, including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Bring new development tools into the classroom

Create safe, easy to deploy and recover learning environments.  Using VMware vCenter Lab Manager, a server-based virtualization product that enables teams of users to share hardware resources and access virtual machine configurations from a shared image library, IT can relinquish some control over server provisioning and management to faculty members.  Requests that used to take days can now be managed  by non-technical staff through a self-serve mechanism.

Get your staff up to speed on virtualization

VMware offers a variety of training options to meet your needs. We can bring the training to you with instructor-led onsite training or you can attend our public classes. Attend training sessions from your office or home with our live online training classes, complete with hands-on lab exercises. Alternately, you can sign up for our self-paced courses and learn at your own pace.  Find the training solution that’s best for you.