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Solutions to Make Your Business Better

Moose Logic is a firm believer that, in both good times and bad times, you should spend your hard-earned budget dollars on things that will make your business better. These are things that, one way or another, either take cost out of your business, or help to drive increased revenue, or reduce your risk of loss from security breaches or disastrous events, or help you comply with regulatory requirements. Here are some of the solutions Moose Logic offers that we believe can make your business better:

Virtualization:

Virtualization is one of the hottest topics in computing today. There are many kinds of virtualization, but we primarily focus in four areas that we believe can save our customers money! Click on the bullet points below to read more about each of the four areas.

• Server Virtualization
  
  Server Virtualization allows you to run multiple "guest" operating systems on a single physical server. This can greatly reduce the number of physical servers in your data center, saving you money not only on the hardware itself, but on the ongoing expenses like power, cooling, and space requirements. Read more about server virtualization solutions.
  
  Or, try out our Virtualization Calculator tool (powered by Microsoft Silverlight) to find your potential cost savings from virtualizing your server infrastructure.


• Storage Virtualization
  
  Ever notice that with individual servers, available storage is never where you need it to be? Your database server is running out of space, but you have plenty of available storage on your file server, which does you no good at all in solving your database problem! Storage virtualization, typically known as Storage Area Networks, or "SANs," allow you to consolidate storage in one place and make it available as needed to the servers that need it. Read more about Moose Logic's SAN solutions.


• Desktop Virtualization
  
  There's a lot of talk these days about desktop virtualization, driven in part by impending Windows 7 upgrades. Many organizations have been postponing needed desktop refreshes for economic reasons, and are now reaching the point where they just can't put them off any longer. And, as Brian Madden pointed out way back in April of 2009, it doesn't make sense to go through a desktop refresh and still end up with Windows XP, nor does it make sense to roll up to Windows 7 and still end up managing your desktops the same old way.
  
  When most people think about desktop virtualization, they think of what is commonly called "VDI," or "Virtual Desktop Infrastructure." In a VDI deployment, multiple virtual PC instances are run on virtualization hosts in the datacenter, using products such as VMware, Citrix XenServer, or Microsoft Hyper-V as the virtualization platform, and users connect to these virtual PCs remotely from some kind of client device.
  
  But VDI is actually only one way to deliver a virtual desktop to a user. You can also:
  

  • Deliver a "hosted shared desktop" from a server, using Citrix XenApp and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services.
  • Stream a PC Operating System from a shared, read-only image to a physical PC across the LAN, using the Provisioning Services functionality of Citrix XenDesktop.
  • Deliver "virtual desktops to go" with Citrix XenClient (now available as a public beta) - a high-performance, bare-metal hypervisor that enables users to run multiple instances of an Operating System simultaneously, side by side, and in complete isolation. With XenClient, laptop users can take multiple virtual desktops with them and work from anywhere, any time.

  Read more about Citrix XenDesktop - the only product that allows you to mix and match all of these desktop virtualization methods with a single license model.


• Application Virtualization
  
  This generally refers to technology that allows applications to be delivered on demand rather than requiring that they be explicitly installed on a laptop or desktop PC. One way to accomplish this is by using Microsoft Terminal Services with Citrix XenApp. Another approach is to stream applications on demand to the point of execution, whether that point of execution is a desktop PC, a XenApp server, or a virtual desktop operating system. Citrix now supports both their own application virtualization technology, and Microsoft's App-V - so you can use whichever application packaging tool you prefer. Read more about Application Virtualization with XenApp.

High Availability & Disaster Recovery

These two solutions are often discussed together, in part because many of the components that help provide an HA solution also play a role in a DR solution. For example, a SAN storage solution is a component of a High Availability server virtualization solution, because it makes it easy for a virtual guest to be moved from one virtualization host to another, and, should its current host fail, be quickly restarted on a surviving host. At the same time, most SAN solutions also can replicate data to an off-site location, which is a key component of most Disaster Recovery solutions. For the purposes of this discussion, we will use "High Availability" to refer to solutions that keep critical services running with little or no interruption in the event of a system failure, and "Disaster Recovery" to refer to solutions that will allow the business to survive a catastrophic failure of multiple systems or even the entire data center.

Process Automation

Secure Remote Access

We live in a time when the workforce is increasingly mobile. It is vital to be able to deliver information and applications to users when and where they need it without compromising security. At the same time, being able to support telecommuters, branch office workers, contract workers, and consultants - again, without compromising security - makes for a more agile and productive work force. Moose Logic specializes in solutions that can tailor information and application access to both the individual user and the access scenario: the same user, presenting the same credentials, might be granted an entirely different level of access depending on whether the user is connecting from within the protected network, from outside network using a company-owned laptop, from a home PC, or from a public location such as a hotel business center. Read more about Secure Remote Access.

WAN Acceleration

Bandwidth is expensive, and the costs go on forever, month after month. Make sure you're getting the most out of the bandwidth you're paying for. A Citrix Branch Repeater solution from Moose Logic can give you LAN-like application performance over the WAN, enable application streaming to branch office users by caching the applications closer to the users, and, with the new ICA-caching technology, support up to 4x more XenApp users on existing network bandwidth. Read more about WAN Acceleration.

Load Balancing and Application Acceleration

More and more applications are moving to the Web. Unfortunately that places more and more stress on existing bandwidth and existing Web servers. Throwing more bandwidth and⁄or more servers at the problem isn't always the answer. But a Citrix NetScaler® solution from Moose Logic will combine high-speed load balancing and content switching with application acceleration, data compression, caching, SSL acceleration, and performance monitoring to provide better end-user application performance over less bandwidth using fewer servers - and that means cost savings. Read more about NetScaler® solutions.

Security and Compliance

Security is about more than just having a good firewall. It's also important to know what kinds of traffic are flowing in and out of your network. And, depending on the nature of your business, you may be required by law to not only know what's flowing in and out, but to track it, block objectionable or unwanted traffic, and archive email and instant messaging traffic. Even if you're not dealing with legal requirements, being able to produce a critical piece of email could be the difference in a critical piece of litigation. 

Online Services

Are you considering using online services to meet some of your application needs? Gartner predicts that 25% of business software will be delivered as a service by 2011. IDC is predicting a 32% compound annual growth rate for "Software as a Service" through 2011. Microsoft has stated that within the next few years every product in their portfolio will be available through the "cloud." Their first step in that direction is the Microsoft "Business Productivity Online Suite," or "BPOS." Businesses can have access to Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communicator Online, and LiveMeeting Standard Edition for only $15⁄month⁄user. Read more about BPOS.

Dr. Isaac Asimov 1920-92

Russian-born American author, humanist, thinker, wit, bon vivant, and professor of biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. In 1950 he coined the term "robotics" in his popular book "I,Robot."

Quote: "It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in our world today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."

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Moose Logic is obsessed with keeping up with the ever-changing world of IT. The old saw, "You snooze, you lose," couldn't be more apropos when it comes to using technology to build solutions that bring business value.

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