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Allianz Insurance Plc Selects Blaze to Improve Virtual Desktops
April 20, 2011
Allianz Insurance Plc, has chosen Blaze to improve the performance of their Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) used by their UK employees and India- based outsourcing organisation. Blaze addresses the usability and deployment challenges presented by slow, remote desktop connections by delivering a superior local PC-like experience and fast remote desktop connections at speeds up to 25 times that of RDP — across WANs and congested LANs.
Allianz Insurance Plc is one of the largest general insurers within the UK and part of the global Allianz Group; As one of the leading integrated financial services providers worldwide and with approximately 152,000 employees, the Allianz Group serves approximately 75 million customers in about 70 countries. In fiscal 2009 the Allianz Group achieved total revenues of over 97.4 billion euros. Allianz is one of the world's largest asset managers, with third-party assets of 926 billion euros under management at year end 2009. In July 2010, Allianz Insurance Plc won the general Insurer of the Year title at the prestigious British Insurance Awards, the third time the Company has won the award in the last six years.
"We are delighted that an organisation as prestigious as Allianz Insurance has chosen Blaze as their preferred solution for accelerating their Virtual Desktop (VDI) infrastructure. Blaze is an ideal solution to address performance issues when attempting to deliver applications within a shared service, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) or offshore back-office operation."
Organisations are turning to Virtual Desktops to improve desktop management, simplify application deliver and help to reduce costs. However, poor network performance due to latency and bandwidth restrictions impacts negatively both on the employee’s experience and productivity, which ultimately results in user frustration and potential project failure.
Blaze delivers
- A software only solution for accelerating RDP based network traffic across any network, LAN, WAN, Wireless, 3G, ADLS, GPRS
- Integrates seamlessly into both Remote Desktop Services / Terminal Server and Virtual Desktop infrastructures
- No minimum bandwidth requirement
- Strengthens security with in-built SSL encryption
- Ideal for PDF’s, graphic rich documents, PowerPoint, Flash based video etc. Supports, Windows, Linux, CE and other mobile platforms
