Virtualization Support in New York

ActivSupport's New York virtualization support experts discuss products and offerings to virtualize desktops and servers architectures. Check out our virtualization application page to explore  business challenges where virtualization is most suited to respond to peformance expectations. 

ActivSupport's East Coast headquarters covers the greater New York area, including Manhattan (Upper East Side, Central Park, Park Avenue, SOHO, Harlem and the Financial District), Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and Long Island. 

Open source solutions, VMware, Citrix (Xensource), Virtual Iron, Microsoft, even Oracle, everyone has a virtualization offer and will continue to down the road. The value add will have to do with the management interface, tools and capability. One BIG issue which spawns products and companies such as Platespin is the lack of a standard for a virtual machine format. It is coming in the form of OVF or open virtual machine format but some companies are quicker to embrace it than others. In the end,  the company that best integrates everything and makes management the easiest and most powerful will win.

ActivSupport's New York virtualization support options include the following:

Open Source Xen.
Of course being open source, it is FREE so there will always be a significant cost savings. Also being open source it is supported by the community rather than a single company. The quantity and quality of support can vary, as can an official hardware compatibility list, software updates and end user support can vary by vendor. ActivSupport can and does support open source virtualization solutions. ActivSupport is endorsed by Linux magazine as a leading Linux experts firm.

Citrix.
Citrix purchased XenSource in 2007. What companies such as Xensource or Citrix do is take the basic Open Source Xen, bullet proof it, certify hardware, and develop management tools. Citrix XenServer is a powerful virtualization platform that comes in at a price point which is less than VMware. There is a free basic version which can be useful for trials and a small test deployment. It is basically a version which is limited to 4 VM’s, 4GB RAM and single server management. Two or three virtual machines could co-exist on a single piece of server hardware if they do not need a lot of RAM.
Citrix XenDesktop offers a next-generation, user-centric desktop virtualization solution that provides a complete system for desktop delivery.  XenDesktop dynamically assembles virtual desktops on-demand, providing users a new and pristine, yet personalized, desktop each time they log on – ensuring that performance never degrades. In addition, XenDesktop’s high-speed delivery protocol provides unparalleled responsiveness over any network which helps in desktop optimization. For IT organizations, XenDesktop greatly simplifies desktop lifecycle management and radically drives down cost of ownership by separating the delivery of the desktop OS, applications and user settings. ActivSupport is a Citrix partner.

Check out additional ActivSupport's New York virtualization consulting options including VM ware consulting in New York here.

For supporting your virtualized environment or your next virtualization project, consider ActivSupport's certified virtualization consultants, and call us for a no-cost, no-obligation consultation by dialing, toll free, 1-877-228-4863, or by using our online contact form.

ActivSupport is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a premier Linux-certified firm located in New York. ActivSupport provides flexible IT outsourcing solutions, including network management, help desk outsourcing, software development and computer network consulting to businesses across the nation.