Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI)

Comprehensive Virtual Workspace Strategy

With Cisco VXI, IT can deploy virtual desktops with an end-to-end systems approach, which combines desktop virtualization and collaboration to address the challenges of:

• The proliferation of endpoint devices and mobile work environments
• Complexity of enterprise desktop management
• Windows 7 migration
• Security, compliance, and business continuance challenges
• Infrastructure, desktop, and communications administration costs

A successful enterprise-wide virtual workspace deployment needs a comprehensive system that spans data center, network, and collaboration architectures together with the planning, design services, and support offered by Cisco VXI. The end result is a flexible, highly secure, and efficient infrastructure that meets a diverse set of user needs.

Delivering the Next-Generation Virtual Workspace

Cisco VXI delivers a complete virtualized collaborative workspace, unifying virtual desktop, voice, and video services, anywhere, on any device. It combines:

• Efficient, on-demand virtual desktop hosting
• Industry-leading networking for optimized service delivery
• A portfolio of innovative endpoints and UC and collaboration applications
• Technologies from partners such as Citrix and VMware

Read the VXI at-a-glance (PDF - 916 KB) for details on this image.

Meet Evolving Business Needs with Cisco VXI

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Initiative:

• Provide secure, approved access to desktops from employee-owned devices
• Allow employees to be productive on the devices of their choice without compromising security

Desktop refresh and maintenance:

• Reduce your overall time to deployment and Microsoft Windows 7 migration costs, and gain the flexibility to respond to changing business requirements
• Reduce desktop maintenance cost

Business agility:

• Quickly orient contractors, consultants, and acquisitions to increase their productivity
• Quickly deliver the tools needed to make new operations, offices, and branches operational

Compliance and security:

• Reduce your risk of costly security breaches by centralizing and securing access to applications and data
• Help meet your business continuance and regulatory compliance requirements

Lower operational costs:

• Reduce your overall costs of managing desktops and application releases and updates
• Use your existing budget to reduce desktop and communications costs with workspace virtualization solutions

Virtual workforce:

• Provide the flexibility and security for all your end users to access corporate IT applications and operating systems over any network or device
• Deliver a flexible infrastructure so your entire organization can be productive whether employees are onsite, mobile, or working from home

More About Cisco VXI

• Cisco VXI Brochure (PDF - 920 KB)

More About Desktop Virtualization

• Cisco Solutions for Desktop Virtualization
• Frost and Sullivan: VXI: Raising the Bar on Desktop Virtualization (PDF - 2.1 MB)
• Cisco Solution for Citrix XenDesktop (PDF - 3.3 MB)
• Cisco Solution for VMware View (PDF - 597 KB)

Case Studies

• Metro Health
  Desktop virtualization keeps the data where it's properly controlled and protected. There's no longer a security hole we have to worry about
• Oak Hills School District (PDF - 2.3 MB)
  "We worked with Oak Hills to do comprehensive cost analyses that show a 13-month payback, 166% ROI, and IT capital and operating savings of more than $1.27 million over 3 years.... Desktop TCO is 67% lower." Bill Ginn, Client Manager at Champion Solutions Group

See Cisco Customer Case Studies for more.