Bring the benefits of virtualization to government field offices

Hughes solves this challenge with the Hughes Virtualized Field Office Server, enabling agencies to easily host multiple critical applications on a single managed platform. The Field Office Server supports both centralized, or cloud service, applications and those that must reside at field offices to satisfy high availability and performance requirements. In addition, the Field Office Server reduces the amount of field office hardware and management resources necessary to deliver these applications.

One server that acts like many

With the Hughes Field Office Server, federal agencies can reduce the number of servers at their sites, while keeping essential applications locally for performance and reliability. Virtualization at the field office level enables IT departments to better utilize their local infrastructure, improving efficiency, application availability, and performance while lowering IT costs dramatically. Unlike standalone do-it-yourself solutions, Hughes installs, maintains, and manages the Field Office Server platform, freeing agencies to stay focused on their missions.

The Field Office of the Future

The Hughes Field Office Server enables the “field office of the future,” avoiding the server sprawl, manageability challenges, and consumption of excess energy and physical space that often plague today’s field offices. Plus, with the Hughes Field Office Server, agencies will realize significant lifecycle cost savings in IT hardware and maintenance, as well as energy savings and WAN cost reductions. In addition, network management is simplified by engaging a single trusted vendor for IT and networking.
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Key Benefits

Hughes brings all the benefits of virtualization to the field office, providing a turnkey, enterprise-grade platform that collapses multiple servers into one:

• Runs multiple applications and operating systems
• Reduces capital costs
• Increases energy efficiency
• Enables faster deployment of new applications
• Frees up agency resources with a fully managed solution
• Provides the flexibility to run agency-specific applications and add new applications so the agency is future-ready
• Takes advantage of the experience and engineering expertise of Hughes

Applications

Agencies can provision the Field Office Server with mission-critical applications tailored to their specific needs, such as:

• Live and on-demand training that use video and rich media to improve workforce productivity, deliver cost-effective training, and promote employee development
• Video surveillance to improve physical security
• Interactive digital signage to engaging federal employees within agencies and throughout federal campuses
• Virtualized desktop environment to replace expensive dedicated PCs