Handling Multimedia Under Desktop Virtualization for Knowledge Workers

Wyse® TCX Multimedia™ capabilities deliver the applications and performance required, for less

Knowledge workers frequently need access to multimedia applications, such as computer-based training, video conferencing, intelligent hypermedia systems, groupware support, and informal media spaces that enable geographically dispersed groups to collaborate effectively. Increasingly, they’ll also be turning to multimedia applications that help them to deal with large amounts of interrelated information through visualization, and to manipulate and access information quickly and easily across organizational boundaries. Supporting these multimedia requirements has traditionally meant providing knowledge workers PCs and high-bandwidth networks. Organizations that wanted to take advantage of the cost savings and efficiency inherent in thin-client computing have restricted themselves to deploying it to employees executing simple tasks. They haven’t been able to broaden their deployment to include knowledge workers because multimedia applications have traditionally performed poorly in the virtual desktop environment of thin computing. For example, in a thin-client infrastructure using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), even a powerful dual quad, 8-core server running a test video can only run about 15 virtual machines (VMs) before reaching 100 percent of capacity and taking up 120 MB of network bandwidth. This excessive consumption of resources undermines the entire value proposition for thin-client computing—and doesn’t work well. But now, with the availability of Wyse TCX Multimedia virtualization software, multimedia applications can run within a VMware virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in a way that: Improves server scalability Makes better use of network bandwidth Saves energy Simplifies data center operations Wyse TCX Multimedia software enables organizations to increase their cost savings and productivity gains from thin computing by putting knowledge workers on thin-client devices. Wyse’s TCX Multimedia software can run more virtual sessions with fewer physical servers, which can cut data center energy costs, reduce the amount of heat generated, and reduce the amount of data center floor space required per user supported. It also helps simplify data center operations, because IT now only needs to support one model of user, in a highly resilient, low-maintenance environment.

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