Virtual Access Suite® (Enterprise Edition)

The Virtual Access Suite is an enterprise virtual desktop and application delivery solution for the VMware Virtual Infrastructure and the Microsoft Windows Terminal Server platforms - embracing and extending both to deliver highly resilient and scalable on-demand desktop deployment and application delivery for enterprises worldwide.

The Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite is the only commercially available solution delivering the most comprehensive feature-set to:

• consolidate the delivery of applications (including support for streaming)
• consolidate the deployment of desktops from:
  - terminal servers
  - blade or physical PCs
  - virtual infrastructures such as VMware VI3

What features are available in VAS (Enterprise Edition)?

1.) The entire VAS framework supporting virtual and physical desktops

2.) ALL of the features found in VAS (Standard Edition):

• Print-IT (EMF and PDF universal print driver for client, LAN, and WAN printing)
• MetaProfiles-IT (advanced user profile management)
• Manage-IT (server-based session / desktop configuration and lockdown)
• Max-IT (CPU utilization management and virtual memory optimization)
• USB-IT (redirection of USB-connected handhelds - BlackBerry, Palm, and Pocket PC)
• VIP-IT (per-session IP address assignment)
• Block-IT (access control for blocking access to unsanctioned applications and network servers)
• Redirect-IT (per-user file and registry redirection)
• TimeZones-IT (per-session time zone assignment)

3.) In addition, VAS (Enterprise Edition) includes four individual functional modules, offering the following enterprise deployment features:

• Provision-IT®
   
  • Application publishing
  • Server-based desktop publishing
  • Content publishing
  • Tight integration with the Softricity platform (import and publish SoftGrid virtualized applications)
  • Application- and server-level load balancing
  • Seamless windows
  • Session sharing
  • Screen Resolutions up to 4096 x 2048
  • Multi-monitor support
  • Credentials pass-through
  • Kerberos-based authentication and pass-through
  • Smartcard authentication
  • Remote password reset
  • AppPortal (similar to the Citrix Program Neighborhood)
  • AppPortal desktop-integrated (similar to the Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent)

• Web-IT®
   
  • Multiple-farm access
  • Credentials pass-through
  • Two-factor authentication (RSA, Secure Computing, RADIUS)
  • Client auto-detection and download
  • Application auto-launch
  • Client device location identification (i.e., automatically redirects external users through the SSL gateway)
  • Remote password reset
  • Load-balanced using Microsoft NLB or third-party load balancer

• Secure-IT®
   
  • Secure single point of access to firewall-protected Terminal Server farm
  • Enables Windows clients to access a Provision-IT Terminal Server farm using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
  • Intermediates all inbound traffic destined to Web-IT (Web interface)
  • Ideally placed in the DMZ
  • Load-balanced using Microsoft NLB or third-party load balancer

• Proxy-IT®
   
  • Enables any RDP-enabled client (i.e., legacy thin clients, MACs, Linux, rdesktop, etc) to connect to a Provision-IT® load-balanced Terminal Server farm
  • End user experience can either be a server-based desktop or an appbar populated with the user’s application set
  • Load-balanced using Microsoft NLB or third-party load balancer

Who needs VAS (Enterprise Edition)?

• Organizations that own an earlier version of Citrix MetaFrame and wish to extend the existing feature set without incurring the hefty costs of upgrading to Citrix Presentation Server 4.0.
   
• Organizations that wish to expand their existing Citrix farm, but are faced with budgetary constraints, leading them to look for a viable alternative to Citrix MetaFrame and Presentation Server.
   
• Organizations that own Citrix Presentation Server licenses and are either considering renewing their Subscription Advantage (software maintenance) or permanently replacing Citrix with a functionally equivalent, less expensive alternative.
   
• Organizations that are disappointed by the poorly-engineered Citrix-like features and the limitations of various Citrix alternatives in the marketplace today. Common Citrix-like features found in these alternative solutions include:

 
• Application Publishing
• Load Balancing
• Seamless Windows
• Web Interface
• SSL Gateway
   
• Organizations that have so far managed without the Citrix-like features, but would like to have them at a fraction of the cost of a Citrix license.

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