[OPLINTECH] Recent Technology Symposium Event in Toledo

[JKENZIG]

We  did some pricing of Item 2 last year on several of these solutions and while the pluses look good, actual solutions are VERY expensive and for small organizations I would contend they are not cost effective. (and probably aren't for larger ones either at this point in time) 
 
Item 3 virtual desktops (VDI) solutions are very expensive once you pay licensing etc. unless you use all open source it will get expensive and just as much management is involved, only in a different way.  
 
Remember even virtual servers, require just as much management as a real iron server also. You still have to worry about security, updates, antivirus etc.  A lot of apps don't scale well under virtualization also.   I have never heard of running applications without some sort of OS, did they specify what product exists that does it? I specialize in this stuff and follow the industry carefully.  You need at least a browser to run an app in and to run a browser you need an OS. (and JAVA is an OS if that is what they mean) I would really like to know if they mentioned a product as I didn't gleen much from their site. . 
 
Something we are looking at with virtualization is Citrix Provisioning Server for desktops. (PVS) It is a different beast than virtual desktops in that you are streaming the OS to the desktop and all processes and the OS are then still run at the desktop.  Benefits are that you are managing only a single or a couple Virtual Hard Disk (vhd) images in the data center.  Versus with VDI all of the virtual machines run on a server in your data center and you are managing possibly hundreds of virtual machines in the data center. If you are a Microsoft shop VDI requires extra licensing and also many extra servers.  If we did VDI our costs would approach $1 million after servers, licensing, software etc. and a yearly maintenance fee.  Cost for PVS is closer to about $80,000.   Quite a difference. 
 
Regards,
Jim Kenzig
Network Manager
 

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From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org on behalf of Bob Neeper
Sent: Thu 4/23/2009 12:21 PM
To: Oplintech at Oplin.Org; Oplinlist at Oplin.Org
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Recent Technology Symposium Event in Toledo


Chauncey Montgomery (director) and I attended a symposium at the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library on 4/15 
A no charge, no pressure event with speakers from 3 companies and a case study by TLCPL 
In my opinion, an event well worth attending should you have the opportunity. 

DMC Technology Group Inc, in Toledo, held it to showcase 3 interesting technologies for use in libraries 
All 3 have the potential to streamline operation and save money. 

A short summary (of sorts) on the covered items. 

1) Optimize network bandwidth, monitor use, control streaming media and social networking sites, accelerate mission critical traffic. 
Item of interest: 
 You don't necessarily need to increase bandwidth, possibly just control the use. 

2) Backup and recover solutions using data deduplication technology 
Items of interest: 
 No tapes 
 Very substantial reduction in backup time utilizing block mode (faster than incremental) 
 Quick restore of files 
 Long term backup retention 

3) Virtualization solutions 
Items of interest: 
 Virtual desktops, 
 Live migration of virtual machines between servers 
 Running programs without an operating system. 



If interested, additional information may be obtained through: 

Website   http://www.dmctechnologygroup.com/ <http://www.dmctechnologygroup.com/> 
Email       eric.lacy at DMCtechgroup.com 

<http://www.dmctechnologygroup.com/> 

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R. W. (Bob) Neeper     Cell: (740)-407-3572 
Community Library
44 Burrer Dr.
Sunbury, Oh 43074
Tel:  (740)-965-3901
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