Pano Logic Frequently Asked Questions:
What is Pano Logic?
Pano Logic is the first zero client architecture built around industry standard virtualization technology. The Pano Logic solution enables a totally new approach to the traditional PC-centric desktop architecture, and provides a superior end-user desktop experience with lower TCO, simplified client set-up, support for the latest OS capabilities, client roaming and mobility capabilities, and self-help for users.
How is Pano Logic relevant to my IT initiatives?
Commercial desktop customers are facing an ever complex problem in managing traditional PC environments. They are faced with serious issues around desktop acquisition costs, system management, infrastructure utilization, security, client mobility, system upgradeability, help desk infrastructure, and downtime and productivity. Ultimately each of these makes the total cost of ownership for traditional desktop solutions exorbitant and unscalable.
Why virtualize the desktop? Why now?
Following many years of technological progress / evolution across many different components - CPU, memory, I/O, networking, storage and others - the CPU utilization rates have fallen and network bandwidth has increased to the point that true zero client desktop virtualization can finally be realized. The interesting thing is that alternative desktops have been espousing for years the value of having as little computing and state as possible on the desktop. However, today Pano Logic is the only vendor to provide a truly zero- state client solution.
What's the cost of desktop virtualization? What are the potential savings?
In any desktop architecture there are three components to measure costs: initial acquisition cost, long term total cost of ownership and the more nebulous green costs / benefits. In many cases the initial cost of acquisition for traditional desktops and virtualized desktops may be the same. This is due to the equivalent costs of server infrastructure and traditional PCs - any cost savings associated with a zero client are made up by the cost of the server hardware. In addition many of the software costs will be the same from one solution to the other: Windows licensing, productivity tools, etc. However, this equality is not the same in longer term costs of management, service and maintenance, uptime, reliability, and hardware upgrades. Nor are the solutions the same in green costs: energy usage, flexibility, landfill/disposal costs, etc. In both cases the traditional desktop can cost up to ten times as much as a virtualized environment.
What about Microsoft and licensing?
While the industry is working with Microsoft on clarifying their Windows and productivity applications licensing terms, customers should move forward with virtualized clients with an assumption that their licensing terms will not change. IT should be planning their infrastructure by applying the same principles they have with traditional PC infrastructure. We do expect, as more customers virtualize their desktop infrastructure, that Microsoft will adopt a more flexible licensing scheme consistent with a more dynamic user base.
What should companies consider before deploying?
The most significant elements of any server-centric desktop infrastructure are the same: server sizing, available networking bandwidth, and management and back-up / recovery best practices. Overall moving the desktop infrastructure to the data center means that traditional desktop IT should adopt data center best practices.
From a performance perspective the most important aspects fall into two categories: server sizing and network bandwidth. Server sizing for desktops is generally limited by the number of cores and the amount of physical memory. Both of these factors create VM limitations but cannot easily be subjugated to explicit guidelines; rather, there are a number of other factors specific to an implementation - number of simultaneous user connections, workload and application support, remote vs. local connections, etc. - that directly impact server sizing and the number of supported desktop virtual machines. The network bandwidth limitations, however, are a bit more predictable and concrete. Regardless, customers are strongly encouraged to run prior to deployment a pilot based on their real-world implementation to best gauge performance and network requirements.
Who are your competitors?
In many ways Pano Logic views virtual desktop infrastructure that is enabled by industry standard server-side virtualization as an entirely new wave of alternative desktop solutions. Past vendors in the alternative desktop space - including proprietary thin client vendors along with blade computing solutions and other server-side desktop technologies and protocols - are seen as trail blazers who created a promise on which they could never deliver. For example, every traditional thin client vendor has, at one time or another, espoused the benefits of a true zero client:; lower initial acquisition cost, no end point to manage, zero state to corrupt, more secure, etc. However, due to limitations of existing technologies and solutions topologies, none were ever able to deliver a true zero client.
Because Pano Logic is relying on industry standard hypervisor technologies on the server-side and because of dramatic increases in bandwidth and CPU capacity, Pano Logic has successfully moved all the software from the endpoint to the server. In this way, Pano Logic is currently without peer in the desktop business.
How are you different from the other solutions on the market?
Pano Logic utilizes industry-standard hypervisor technology to provide a robust zero client solution that is extremely easy to install, maintain and scale. By taking advantage of the VMware virtualization infrastructure, Pano Logic requires no additional specialized skills or training to install or manage virtual desktops beyond those required to install or manage VMware. By leverage VMware, Pano Logic can focus on solving unique desktop challenges without having to reinvent the virtual infrastructure.
Pano Logic moves all the endpoint software to the server. By leveraging Windows running in a VM on the server, Pano Logic can leverage the large installed Windows drivers to provide out-of-the-box support for USB devices and other peripherals.
By focusing on the client-side of the virtual desktop solution, Pano Logic can focus on providing an extremely scalable, low cost end point that is both uniquely secure and flexible.
Who are your customers?
Currently Pano Logic customers fit into one of two broad categories:
- Traditional desktop customers who may have heard about desktop alternatives but due to limitations, necessary expertise or cost have never pursued these technologies before. These customers run the gamut of expected vertically focused customers - finance & banking, healthcare, education customers - and / or customers with unique implementation requirements such as remote or branch office environments or call centers. The benefits of Pano Logic to these customers - ease of installation, low cost of acquisition, ease and centralization of management, security, lowest TCO - is obvious and immediate.
- Sophisticated IT customers who have already broadly adopted virtualization technology throughout their datacenter environments. These customers have already seen the benefits of virtualization and are looking to quickly leverage this investment out from the datacenter to include their desktop infrastructure. These customers quickly adopt and embrace virtual desktops and don't have the learning curve normally associated with server-centric desktop architectures.
What is the pricing structure of Pano's solution?
The Pano Logic virtual desktop solution may initially appeal to customers as a cool client hardware-based solution, but the true value of the virtual desktop is in the software that makes it all work seamlessly. As such we've approached pricing from a software perspective. We currently offer the virtual desktop only as an end-to-end solution: the virtual desktop software, management server and the Pano Logic client. You can find the current price here
For more information, please email DV Nordic at: sales@dvnordic.se
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FÖRDELAR
- Minskar er totala IT-kostnad för klienter med upp till 70% genom sänka omkostnader som direkt kan kopplas till klient administration, installation och helpdesk support.
- All data flyttas från klienten till datacentret och ökar därmed säkerheten och kontrollen.
- Pano-enheten är energisnål och förbrukar endast 3% av den energi som en vanlig PC använder. Detta gör den både kostnadseffektiv och miljövänlig.
- Med VMware infrastruktur installerat kan Pano VDS implementeras på mindre än 60 minuter och nya virtuella klienter kan installeras på sekunder.
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