Desktop virtualization
Provisioning and managing the corporate desktop PC estate represents a massive cost within the IT budget and can be a huge headache for IT administrators. Just keeping track of hundreds - or thousands - of PCs is a time-consuming job. Added to this is the challenge of ensuring that every employee has a fully functioning desktop, regularly coordinating rollouts of software updates, and carrying out major operating system migrations.
Understanding the true cost of providing these desktop services to the end user and ensuring an acceptable return on investment (ROI) with effective controls must be a business priority. But it can also create an opportunity to save money and resources.
Quick Pitch
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) consolidates large estates of desktop PCs onto a centralised server farm where every user has their own "virtual" PC.
- Instead of users having an expensive, dedicated, fully loaded PC on their desk, they all access a full version of the operating system (Windows, Linux...) environment, including desktop applications, located remotely on the server.
- They do this from much lower cost "thin client" PCs or terminals. Revisions, updates, licensing, security, user-specific profiles and changes are all implemented on the server farm - all controlled through a central management console.