About Lakeside Software

Lakeside Software’s® SysTrack Suite is a comprehensive solution for understanding and monitoring the end-user computing environments of today and tomorrow. SysTrack provides out of the box visibility into system, user and application metric, providing unparalleled insight into today’s desktop environments. SysTrack can then assess, recommend and model a next generation virtual desktop environment based on real-world user behavior, hypervisor type, virtual desktop model (assigned/persistent/pooled), server and storage type and performance, to create accurate system sizing data identifying the right server and storage requirements every time.

SysTrack integrates and supports Citrix XenDesktop®, VMware View®, and other virtual desktop offerings. The SysTrack Suite provides immediate ROI for desktop virtualization projects while addressing the “Who, How, and What” in the environment should be configured through automated analysis and intelligent reporting.

VDI Challenges

VDI has the potential to revolutionize enterprise desktop computing by lowering the total cost of desktop computing, increasing security and compliance and making desktop computing more flexible. However, many companies have deployed VDI only to realize that their VDI architecture could not scale without either degrading desktop performance or requiring a massive additional investment in computing, networking and storage infrastructure.

VDI has fundamental challenges preventing large scale adoption:

VDI CAPEX costs—Traditional VDI costs twice as much as a PC
VDI User Experience—Project stalls due to resistance from users
VDI Scalability—VDI pilots fail to scale beyond 500-1,000 virtual desktops
VDI Complexity—VDI deployments can become unnecessarily complex

In order for VDI to achieve broad adoption, it must deliver cost, performance and scalability characteristics that are equivalent or better than the existing physical PC-based computing infrastructure.

Lakeside and Atlantis ILIO Joint Solution

Lakeside Software and Atlantis ILIO enable customers to eliminate the cost, complexity, scalability and user experience challenges that typically limit VDI deployments to small pilots. Lakeside provides the assessment, planning, monitoring and management capabilities that give customers visibility into application and desktop performance, while correlating that information with storage, CPU, and memory utilization. Using Lakeside Software, customers can determine how much storage, memory and CPU are required to deliver the desired desktop performance. Atlantis ILIO enables customers to dramatically reduce the amount of storage required for VDI by up to 90% and boost desktop performance. During the pilot phase of the VDI deployment, joint customers can use Lakeside SysTrack to quantify the storage reduction and performance improvements realized by deploying Atlantis ILIO.