The Business Case for Wanova Mirage

Wanova Mirage™ software can simplify operations and reduce the costs of managing, supporting and protecting remote and mobile PCs.

Improve Compliance with Corporate IT Standards

In many organizations, it is fairly easy to ensure LAN-connected PCs are compliant with corporate policies, including those for disaster recovery, data protection, and business continuity. But this becomes more challenging with remote and mobile users. These users are most often on laptops, which are more easily broken, lost or stolen, and network connectivity is frequently WAN-based, where connection drops, high latency and limited bandwidth are typical. All of these characteristics make it challenging to ensure regular backups and enforce corporate software policies on the endpoint.

Wanova Mirage makes it possible to continually reinforce an IT-approved operating system and applications and validate that the endpoints are in compliance – while respecting the end user experience.

Eliminate Costs for Third-Party Backup Solutions

Because Wanova Mirage centralizes a full instance of each endpoint in the data center, third-party backup software or services can be eliminated. Further, Mirage data protection is invisible to the end user, ensuring that the backup process won’t be canceled because it is slowing PC performance. An additional benefit is that, should an employee leave, the organization retains that valuable data.

Reduce Technical Support Costs and Improve SLAs

Instead of spending hours troubleshooting remote PCs and escalating problems to more expensive support staff, support professionals can simply re-image a PC over the WAN. The end user is up and running in a matter of minutes – with all their applications, data and personalization retained. The end user can be productive immediately, and the support organization regains valuable time that would have been spent troubleshooting. Problems can be addressed more quickly, and by less costly support staff.

By maintaining a clean Base Image on each remote PC, organizations will see a decrease in overall support calls as end users will be more likely to have a functional system. Capabilities like self-service file restore further reduce the strain on support staff.

Reduce Total Cost of Ownership for Mobile Endpoints

Gartner Research estimates that the Total Cost of Ownership for laptops ranges range from 6-8K per year, and that organizations can most effectively reduce this TCO by implementing stronger management. Mirage simplifies centralized PC management, in a way that allows and preserves end user customization and supports user-installed applications.

Reduce Server Costs by Orders of Magnitude Compared to VDI

Wanova Mirage leverages the compute resources at the endpoint, avoiding a costly data center server build-out.

Decrease End User Downtime and Loss of Productivity

When a laptop is broken, lost or stolen, it can mean days or even weeks of lost productivity for the user. Wanova Mirage makes it possible to get the user up and running again in a matter of minutes on new – and even different – hardware. If hardware cannot be acquired immediately, IT organizations can load the complete copy of a user’s desktop, including user-installed applications and files, into a virtual machine so that it can be accessed from a kiosk, netbook or other client.