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Application Delivery Initiative

Application Delivery Initiative. Agenda. Strategy / Business Needs Objectives for New Application Delivery Platform Technology Solution How the New App Delivery Platform meets requirements To achieve the benefits of the new App Delivery platform Next Steps Application Delivery Teams

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Application Delivery Initiative

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  1. Application Delivery Initiative

  2. Agenda • Strategy / Business Needs • Objectives for New Application Delivery Platform • Technology Solution • How the New App Delivery Platform meets requirements • To achieve the benefits of the new App Delivery platform • Next Steps • Application Delivery Teams • Questions ? • Appendix

  3. Strategy / Business Needs • PHS Business Drivers demonstrate some serious limitations in current App Delivery Infrastructure • Difficulty in providing access to applications at affiliates • Difficulty in supporting application access across the full OS/Browser/Device mix • Slow login speed and application load times • Session persistence (roaming) • Security Threat Matrix • Strategy – ‘Any App Anywhere’

  4. Objectives for New Application Delivery Platform • To more quickly and flexibly extend PHS applications to the full range of remote settings required by the business and our users • For applications to be accessible from the full range of Device/OS/Browser types required by the business and our users • To streamline the QA/testing/support processes for product groups by standardizing on a single application execution environment • To greatly improve the ‘Slow Login’ problem, and preserve application context for users • To improve the security of our computing environment

  5. Technology Solution What is Application Delivery? • Application Delivery is based on the Private Application Cloud platform, which is a suite of technologies (Terminal Services, Server Virtualization, Application Virtualization, Windows 2008) that, when deployed together, provide application availability to diverse devices and locations. • Advantages: • Delivery of applications (anywhere) for business agility • User mobility • Fast login and access to applications

  6. Technology Suite • Microsoft • Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition • Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition • Application packaging • MSI • Access Devices • Thin Clients • Citrix • XenApp 6 & XenApp 5 • XenDesktop 5 • WanScaler • NetScaler • Server Virtualization • Hyper-V or VMware ? • Application Virtualization • App-V

  7. How the New App Delivery Platform meets requirements • Slow login speed and application load times • Faster login (using Thin Clients) and launching of applications • Session persistence (roaming) • Session management: Users will be able to reconnect to their existing session from various locations • Difficulty providing access to Partners applications at affiliates • Secure, Remote connectivity from various devices (Windows, Mac’s, Linux, and mobile devices) and locations • Difficulty in supporting application access across the full OS/Browser/Device mix • Connectivity from various devices (Windows, Mac’s, Linux, and mobile devices) and browsers

  8. To achieve the benefits of the new App Delivery platform: • Application needs to: • be able to run on Citrix • be bundled and placed (hosted) on Citrix platform • be tested and certified on Citrix platform • Applications will be moved to Citrix in Phases • Today: devices on clinical units access up to 180 different applications that all run on the actual clinical PC/laptop device • Future: majority of applications will run on Citrix servers • As more applications are moved to the Citrix platform a users login experience will improve

  9. Next Steps • Secure dedicated infrastructure resources • Evaluate virtualization Platform • Thin Client evaluation • Develop process to convert Partners Applications to an MSI • Evaluate Printing • Evaluate the use of user profiles • Build production July 2011

  10. Information for Developers • Citrix and Microsoft • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383490(VS.85).aspx • http://community.citrix.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7635211

  11. Application Delivery Teams • Application Delivery • Members: Rick Burrows, Justin Flateau, Babul, Islam, John McLatchey, Steve Meserve, Carlo Noe, Brendan O’Neil, Demetrios Papayannopoulos, Chuck Riley, Stoyan Sabev, Rick Stanton • Project Manager: Rick Aherne • ACD – Application Delivery steering committee • Members: Julie Berry, Mary Buonanno, Steve Flammini, Hong Lou, John Pappas, Demetrios Papayannopoulos, Eric Poon, Christine Schifiliti, Cynthia Spurr, Joanne Tremblay • Project Manager: Rick Aherne

  12. Questions? • Any follow up questions, please contact either: • Demetri Papayannopoulos – Dpapayannopoulos@Partners.org • Rick Aherne - RAherne@Partners.org

  13. Appendix – Application Delivery Architecture

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