SMARTDesktop - Microsoft Licensing & Total Cost of Ownership – Part 3
In the last part of
the article SMARTDesktop
- Microsoft Licensing & Total Cost of Ownership – Part 2
– we
saw the licensing matrix for a given customer situation. In this
article, we evaluate the cost factors and try to arrive at the TCO
over three years, and check whether the savings would be more than
the actual investment.
First
& the foremost thing, one must keep in mind that any
virtualization & VDI initiatives are a program and not a simple
product purchase. Many factors do affect the decision and if properly
planned & implemented VDI solution would bring many benefits onto
the table and
SMARTDesktop would stand out among the lot.
Coming
to subject matter, the sample customer, considered in the Part
2
of the article wants to replace 200 of his ageing
Desktop computers and has started evaluating the VDI & hence
SMARTDesktop in place of procuring the Desktop computers. The TCO
summary is shown below.
Total
Investments Summary:
Savings
Summary:
The
factors that affect TCO are:
-
Hardware Purchase – Servers, Desktop Computers, Thin Clients etc.
-
Operating System & Software Licenses including office applications, anti-virus etc.
-
Network and bandwidth costs – WAN & Internet Costs
-
Power consumption
For
the sample client considered here, only,
desktop, OS & other software purchase costs were considered as
against the reuse of existing desktops to
arrive at TCO. The
Network costs did not affect much as all offices & the data
centre were interconnected through the MPLS links or leased lines.
People with roaming profile were connecting to corporate applications
through the VPN under corporate plans. The
network bandwidth cost was already under OPEX. However,
the there is a line of thought that after carefully measuring the
bandwidth consumption with SMARTDesktop, one may reduce the bandwidth
on MPLS & Leased lines and hence reduce the costs incurred.
SMARTDesktop
with
Shared Sessions reduced
the CAPEX considerably as shown and the savings earned ensured that
the CAPEX incurred was recovered within II year of Operation and
this customre chose to go with SMARTDesktop with HSD solution as it
was suiting the business need and provided the necessary flexibility
as the business desired.
It
is not necessary that True VDI costs are equal to that of New desktop
procurement. It purely depends on the type of Application, OS on
which it is installed, the licensing policy that is applicable to
desktop OS as VM image under VDI scenario, server, storage & network requirements etc.
As
already stated above, any
virtualization & VDI initiatives are a program and not a simple
product purchase. Many factors do affect the decision and if properly
planned & implemented VDI solution would bring many benefits onto
the table and
SMARTDesktop would stand out among the lot.
Contact
us to evaluate SMARTDesktop under your specific environment.
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