Desktop Virtualization

Desktop Virtualization offers new and powerful opportunities for IT to deliver and manage corporate desktops and to respond to various user needs in a flexible way. Virtualized desktops can be either client-hosted or centralized on servers in the data centre - often referred to as a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Client-hosted desktop virtualization creates a separate OS environment on the desktop, allowing non-compatible legacy or line-of-business applications to operate within their native environment on top of a more current operating system, or enabling two IT environments (for example, personal and corporate) to run concurrently on the same physical device. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a desktop delivery model, which allows client desktop workloads (operating system, application, user data) to be hosted and executed on servers in the data centre. Users can communicate with their virtual desktops through a client device that supports remote desktop protocols such as RDP.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is one of the many Optimized Desktop scenarios offered by Microsoft to help organizations optimize their IT infrastructure. It is a comprehensive set of Microsoft and partner technology, enabling centralization of desktops, applications and data. VDI from Microsoft provides Enterprise IT with integrated management of physical, virtual and session based desktops, centralization of user data, and improved application delivery.

End users benefit from a rich remote experience, highly secure and flexible access to their information and increased business continuity. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure benefits non-mobile workers in enterprises that have sophisticated and mature IT departments. It is best suited for contract and offshore workers, users who need access to corporate desktops and applications, and for users that work from home occasionally and whose primary desktop is covered by a corporate license.

Key benefits of VDI include:

Offers improved flexibility, enhancing work scenarios such as work from home and hot-desking
Facilitates improved business continuity through data centralization
Provides integrated management of physical, virtual, and session-based desktops

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