In eGroup's latest Roundtable Series, we sit down with Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, SC Farm Bureau Insurance Companies.

If you're considering desktop virtualization options for your enterprise and want to know how to do it successfully, we strongly recommend you take a listen. Dave outlines the reasons why his team finally took the plunge with VMware View, how they secured funding, created a business case, addressed user change management issues, overcame technology challenges and, ultimately succeeded with the project.

In fact, it's gone so well that the next pahse is rolling out to the field agents on their iPads. Dave explains that near future phase as well!

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Developer is probably not a great candidate. Looking at agents to use iPad in the field.

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Login time is brutal, now if they are on view. Tangible benefits to IT and to help

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There are some limitations on the SAN. So not do a full rollout. It's in the cards

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They support 70 remote offices. 2 secretaries per office.

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They kept thinking about View and coming back to it.

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How can I maintain the common platform across all these systems.

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Scab never used a provider. They already had the servers up and running. Ina came in. We didn't want to have to do it 6 times.

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A lot of stuff still on mainframe. The IP stuff/issue was worked out in a week.

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Dave says we streamlined the organization.

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Working with us on EmC on making more storage SAN to accommodate more users. Need better San, more IO to give the end users more capacity.

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Interesting anecdote where the agent lost a quote because the system. Was so slow

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The flexibility it gives for mobility is great. Galaxy, ad, kindle fire there are clients for all them.

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Prior to this year agents would purchase their own laptop. Tis year scab implemented agent leasing formats. The machine is somewhat locked down. Now with the view, will the agent provide the iPad or will scfb buy it? They are still figuring it out.

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Hopefully manage,ent will see the benefit quickly to

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Patching, firmware, new updates etc it's all easy for Dave.

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Jackson is home office for SCFb

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VDI hub for all the states. They want SC to be this the hub. This is the big vision. VDI gives u this possibility

288 machines can run off two blades. $30 k versus $300k.

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The SAN is always

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Sent from my iPad

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<a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/eGroup-Roundtable_SCFB_VDI.wmv">eGroup Roundtable Series: SC Farm Bureau VDI Project</a>