Terminal Services and SoftGrid
Reduce the need for server silos, shrink server farms, and cut operational costs for managing the remaining servers, thereby dramatically increasing the ROI on your terminal server farm.
Server growth is a costly issue for organizations that rely on terminal services. To avoid post-installation application conflicts, the applications must be tested up front to determine which applications will collide and then must be separated and run on different silos – a time-consuming and costly process. Servers are routinely underutilized because each server is locked in to a specific configuration, capable of serving only a limited set of non-conflicting applications.
Microsoft SoftGrid Application Virtualization for Terminal Services completely changes this dynamic. SoftGrid's application virtualization can allow applications to run alongside other normally conflicting applications including, multiple versions of the same application. This reduces the need for silos and significantly improves server utilization. As a result, the number of servers needed in a farm is lower, operational costs for managing the remaining servers is reduced, and the ROI on the server farm is dramatically increased. In fact, SoftGrid has enabled customers such as Russell Investment Group and Fidelity National Financial, among other, to shrink their application server farms by 33-40%.
SoftGrid can support a large number of concurrent connections and numerous applications with just one single-processor Virtual Application Server*. This significant scalability is possible because of SoftGrid's unique hybrid approach where applications are centrally served but execute locally, taking advantage of the distributed power of desktop computing. In addition, applications files are only delivered once from the server to clients, where they are cached for repeat use. As a result, SoftGrid offers a centralized application management solution that is not only highly scalable, but also bandwidth efficient.
* Based on an average user profile and can vary depending on the number of applications served per user and the average number of new users.
