MarXtar is partners with Virtual Computer for their market-leading client-side desktop virtualisation solution NxTop Enterprise, and with LANDesk Software for their LANDesk Management Suite, Security Suite, and Service Desk solutions. Completely focussed on Desktop & Laptop Management, MarXtar delivers management efficiencies through traditional and virtualisation-based technologies.
Other solutions represented include Veloxum for Enterprise for VMWare & Physical System Optimisation & SpectorSoft's Spector360 for corporate compliance and employee productivity monitoring.
Contact information
Address
MarXtar Ltd
The Hillcrest
187 Worting Road
Basingstoke
RG22 6NR
United Kingdom
Telephone: 01256 413963
Email: marketing@marxtar.com
Website: www.marxtar.com
Press Releases
MarXtar Announces Virtual Computer's CEO Dan McCall to Present at IPEXPO 2011
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Case Studies
AMAG Pharmaceuticals NxTop Case Study
How AMAG Reduced Support Costs by 56% by Adopting Client-Side Virtualisation“We were seriously considering a server-based VDI solution, but when we tested NxTop® we were amazed that we could run it without any major incremental investments in server or network infrastructure”-Nathan McBride, Executive Director of IT, AMAG Pharmaceuticals
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Whitepapers
Use Case Comparison of Type-1 vs. Type-2 Client Hypervisors
Comparing the VMWare View Model to NxTop Type-1 HypervisorVMWare View is a powerful solution for VDI, however when it comes to offline operation its solution is a ‘Type 2 Hypervisor’. In simple terms, this means that the base OS of the machine (e.g. Windows) runs as normal, but the virtual machine that the company provides to the end user runs on top of that OS.
NxTop uses a ‘Type 1 Hypervisor’ meaning that there is no Base OS to worry about. A very thin layer sits between the Virtual OS (the Guest) and the hardware itself making sure that the greatest proportion of the resources are available to run the guest OS rather than being taken by the large OS normally seen with Type 2 Hypervisor implementations.
Both models are valid for particular purposes and the sections in this document analyse some of these. MarXtar provides a short conclusion. Both VMWare and NxTop have specific technical features that are not mentioned on this document so that it is kept brief and focus is on the main use cases.
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Using the Latest in Hypervisor Technology to More Effectively Manage Desktops
IDC WhitepaperAdapted from Virtualized Client Computing Private Vendor Overview: Driving Innovation AroundEndpoint Virtualization by Michael Rose and Ryan Patterson, IDC #211492
This paper examines Virtual Computer, a desktop management vendor whose product leverages a bare-metal PC hypervisor in order to provide management capabilities that would not otherwise be available in a desktop management platform. The paper considers the value proposition of Virtual Computer's product, the company's business model, and the dynamics of the market in which Virtual Computer competes.
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Products
1 - NxTop Enterprise 4
Virtual Desktop Benefits Without the InfrastructureVDI offers many benefits by applying virtualization technology to desktops. Some of the big benefits include manageability, security, and data protection, but not all approaches to VDI are the same...
Server-hosted VDI requires significant investment in servers, storage, and networking because the desktop workload must be run on the servers and then communicated to the user over the network. With NxTop the virtualized workload runs on the client, and only the management functions are performed on the server, so a single management server can support over 1000 end-points.
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2 - LANDesk Management Suite
Simplify IT Management with Lifecycle Management SoftwareWorkforce size and mobility make it nearly impossible to accurately manage all of your organisation's hardware and software assets. If you want real-time IT asset tracking, cloud-enabled management or the ability to reclaim software licenses, migrate or update the OS, or reduce power consumption no matter where the asset is located, you need LANDesk Management Suite.
Powerful Management Tools, One Easy-to-Use Interface
LANDesk Management Suite combines powerful tools that give you the control and flexibility you need to manage all of your IT assets—all from one easy-to-use interface.
Complete Systems Management
With LANDesk Management Suite you get:
- Simultaneous package distribution to multiple users with minimal bandwidth—without dedicated hardware or router reconfigurations.
- Monitor software licenses for all products from a license or group perspective. Manage multiple product versions and reduce license costs.
- Migrate to Windows 7 or another OS in half the time of other solutions with our patented Targeted Multicast and Preferred Server technologies.
- Enterprise efficiency and scalability manages all your cores in one place. Our interface displays data you care about in the way you need to see it.
- Robust inventory management includes scalable discovery, detailed asset views, an easy-to-read reporting dashboard, comprehensive inventory database and more.
- Power management monitors system usage and energy savings at the client level. Identify processes that shouldn’t be interrupted by power policies.
- Remote system resolution anytime, anywhere. Solve problems, generate reports and create audit trails with the click of a mouse.
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3 - LANDesk Application Virtualisation
Science Fiction Meets RealityScience Fiction Meets Reality
Imagine being able to run an application without ever having to install it. Then see yourself doing it with no preinstalled client software and running from any LAN, WAN, USB, or CD-ROM drive with zero footprint on the host PC.
Science fiction? Hardly. It’s LANDesk® Application Virtualisation.
Deliver Fully Tested Applications the First Time
LANDesk Application Virtualisation lets you quickly deliver fully tested applications to targeted PCs the first time, while minimising application conflicts and lowering support and regression-testing costs. You can also reduce OS migration risks with true isolation for testing applications and different OSs—including Windows 7—before implementing anything. It even boosts security by letting you transparently run applications in user mode on locked-down PCs.
And for those organisations with lots of nodes, LANDesk Application Virtualisation fully integrates with our management suite so you can deploy packages to thousands of computers in under an hour.
Enterprise Benefits
LANDesk Application Virtualisation gives you:
- Clientless, conflict-free application deployment and rollback saves you countless hours
- Fully tested applications to end users; cutting support costs and reducing regression testing
- Minimal application conflicts
- No client or server components to manage or maintain
- Ability to transparently run applications in user mode on locked-down PCs
- True isolation for testing that minimises OS migration risks and hassles
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4 - LANDesk Security Suite
More Layers of Protection to Prevent Security Breaches & Data LossKnowledge = Security
Unknown devices in your network could be punching big holes in your security as you read this. With telecommuting and portable storage media, it’s getting harder to monitor and secure your network and endpoints.
LANDesk® Security Suite software offers a multi-layered approach to security that makes it easy to safeguard data and preserve productivity by securing enterprise devices. We secure IT resources from core and network servers to desktops, laptops and portable storage media—preventing data leakage, viruses, malware, spyware and other malicious attacks.
The best part is you can manage it all from the same console as the LANDesk® Management Suite.
Anytime, Anywhere Security
LANDesk Security Suite enforces policies on computers anywhere in the world and makes dynamic changes based on whether those machines are connected to trusted networks or not.
It makes comprehensive protection a reality with robust solutions in every major sector of your endpoint security from one screen, including:
- Integrated endpoint security
- Compliance assessment and remediation
- Device control, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), and more
- Application control
- Advanced vulnerability assessment and remediation
- Antivirus, anti-spyware, and anti-malware protection
- Enforcement of Windows firewall and existing antivirus solutions
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5 - LANDesk Service Desk
The Simple Way to Best Practice AdoptionReducing costs and delivering outstanding IT support services to customers and employees is easy with LANDesk® IT Service Management solutions.
The powerful process driven nature of LANDesk Service Desk gives you the control and consistency you need to constantly and continually deliver quality IT services. Its strong integration capabilities mean you can seamlessly integrate IT systems management or business systems with service management processes. LANDesk is certified on all 14 ITIL V3 processes for IT Service Management including incident, problem, change, and release.
Using LANDesk IT Asset Management Solutions you’ll receive an accurate picture of data and assets so you can better control and manage your IT estate. It can assist you in developing and implementing a world-class Information Technology Asset Management (ITAM) practice. Whether you’re looking for service desk software, or asset lifecycle, process, and software asset management LANDesk has a solution for you.
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6 - Spector360
Complete User Activity-Based Monitoring & Compliance SoftwareMonitor User and Department Activity Across PCs, Macs, Laptops, and the Internet
IT professionals, Risk Officers, and HR staff have more worries than ever — insider theft, inappropriate communications, inefficient processes, employee investigations, compliance demands, etc. They need reliable, automated technology, which shows them user, department, and division activity, no matter where the users are or what devices they are using.
SPECTOR 360 monitors, captures, and analyses ALL user and user group activity, no matter where the users are or what devices they are on. SPECTOR 360 monitors and captures: email, IMs, files transferred, web searches, applications accessed, URLs visited, data printed, and more. In addition, SPECTOR 360 distinguishes between active time and focus time, ensuring that activity data is analysed correctly, so you can act appropriately, and with confidence.
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7 - Veloxum for Enterprise
The Easy Way to Increase Capacity Without Adding HardwareVeloxum automates optimising both physical and virtual (VMware) server settings using its patent-pending Active Continuous Optimisation (ACO) process. Better infrastructure utilisation yields higher guest:host ratios, faster processing and a reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), with customers saving up to 50% on server and virtualisation infrastructure.
IT organisations face an unfolding crisis that limits their ability to deliver applications across the enterprise. Their top priorities – data center centralisation, virtualisation and collaboration – are cost-saving measures that negatively impact server performance and capacity, and saturate network bandwidth, creating an expanding drag on application performance. IT must find a way to resolve these issues before they can improve application performance across the enterprise, but how?
Veloxum's Enterprise software, with its patent-pending Active Continuous Optimisation (ACO) process, attacks this problem head-on. ACO improves server performance and utilisation, and in some cases, generates order-of-magnitude increases in both. The more complex the system, usually the more it can benefit from Veloxum. For instance, Veloxum solutions include virtualised and accelerated systems. Veloxum’s ACO solution is a rational alternative to adding servers, to upgrading bandwidth or to tolerating declining application performance.
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