Infortrend Technology, an enterprise storage provider, has unveiled virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) storage solution for remote work. EonStor GS enterprise unified storage is designed with extensive desktop virtualization support to sustain heavy workloads during peak activity hours while reducing the overall total cost of ownership, said the company. VDI storage solutions play a critical role providing high performance services able to withstand IO storms while enabling simple deployment and scalability — all at a low cost per desktop. EonStor GS unified storage can support 6,000 virtual desktops for remote workers, ensuring every one of them delivers an outstanding user experience. GS has all-flash/hybrid configuration options to provide costefficient VDI with high and stable performance — up to 1,000K IOPS with response time less than 0.5 seconds — for intensive workloads during peak activity hours and mitigating IO storms. The solution is certified with the most popular VDI platforms, including VMware and Citrix. It consolidates SAN and NAS services which simplifies the VDI deployment: the VDI OS and applications run on SAN, while users’ folders rely on NAS, providing VDI users with convenient folder sharing and increased data protection. GS supports the scale-out function to linearly scale both capacity and performance for largerscale VDI. To ensure data integrity, GS supports Remote Replication and vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Ricoh USA Inc. unveiled its RICOH Capture & Conversion Services, an advanced AI-powered solution that intelligently captures, digitizes and stores information, making it securely and efficiently accessible, searchable and useable to workers from anywhere. This latest integrated service, built within Ricoh’s Digital Services Center, gives teams access to actionable analytics that will enhance end user experiences. With it, they can act on information that will empower the acceleration of the digitization process effectively, said the company. RICOH Capture & Conversion Services is the latest service built on RICOH’s Intelligent Business Platform, a workflow and process automation ecosystem that enables business insights through a single consumer-grade digital experience. Along with enabling collaboration and access to information from anywhere, the service accelerates business workflows, creates a centralized data repository, protects business continuity, and increases productivity and cost-efficiency with its combination of AI and human-in-the-loop processes. The solution also integrates Computer Vision, an AI-powered approach to replicating what and how human eyes process information, to rapidly ingest and recognize documents. As the AI gets smarter, the RICOH Capture & Conversion Services can pull in additional relevant data, e.g., recognizing customer data on a document and then matching and enriching that data with an external customer database, delivering added efficiencies. COVID-19 accelerated plans for flexible work models such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and cloudbased desktop as a service (DaaS), which allow workers to access work from just about anywhere. But as the pandemic slows, it turns out VDI/DaaS also can help resolve legacy IT challenges, suggest surveys from Citrix. A full 95 percent of IT leaders agree that DaaS is a secure, long-term solution – beyond the COVID 19 pandemic – to legacy IT challenges. Among the legacy IT issues that a DaaS implementation can address, 72 percent of respondents said scalable infrastructure, while 56 percent said license inventory and 53 percent cited high procurement costs. The user groups that would benefit the most, showed the Citrix survey, are IT and engineering. Infortrend Delivers VDI Storage for Remote Work Ricoh’s AI-powered Service Digitizes Information, Delivers Analytics The VDI/DaaS Long Game 45 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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