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Desktop Virtualisation

With IT budgets frozen or falling and with the need to simplify the management of PC estates, improve data security and facilitate home and mobile working environments, the traditional way of running desktop applications is under pressure.

As a result, a growing number of enterprises are turning to virtual desktops, taking their desktop computer environments and making them configurable, deployable and manageable from a central location to provide anytime, anywhere secure access, including from mobile devices such as tablets, notebooks and thin clients.

Desktop virtualization is the use of virtual machines to let multiple network subscribers maintain individualized desktops on a single, centrally located computer or server. The central machine may be at a residence, business or data centre and even if users are geographically scattered, they are all connected to the central machine by a proprietary local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), or the Internet.

Desktop virtualization offers distinct advantages over the traditional model, in which every computer operates as a completely self-contained unit with its own operating system, peripherals and application programs.

Overall expenses are reduced because resources can be shared and allocated to users on an as-needed basis. Plus, the integrity of user information is improved because all data is maintained and backed up in the data centre and conflicts in software are minimized by reducing the total number of programs stored on any given machine.

Despite the sharing of resources, all users can customize and modify their desktops to meet their specific needs. In this way, desktop virtualization offers improved flexibility.

Key Benefits of Desktop Virtualisation

• Increased speed of applications and general computer use
• Remote access, anytime, anywhere, from any machine
• Improved security as all data is stored on a central server and not to individual pc's or laptop's
• Improved support due to the ease of which problems can be diagnosed via a central point as opposed to an individual's machine
• educed hardware costs as lower spec machines can be utilised for longer
• Dynamically load balance virtual desktop machines to optimize computing resources
• Bring the power of the datacenter to the desktop and use a common platform to manage both servers and desktops from the datacenter to the cloud

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