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Control Your Desktops from the Data Center

With VMware Virtual Desktop infrastructure (VDI), companies can host individual desktops inside virtual machines that are running in their data center. Users access these desktops remotely from a PC or a thin client using a remote display protocol. Since applications are managed centrally at the corporate data center, organizations gain better control over their desktops. Installations, upgrades, patches and backups can be done with more confidence without user intervention.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Benefits:

For many reasons, a server‑based solution like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a better alternative to fully configured desktops and shared application solutions for offsite desktop management, including:

• Improved security. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions let remote users access applications that reside in the corporate data center and adhere to company‑approved security policies. Intellectual property is not sent overseas where it's difficult to secure. Data resides on the corporate network, where regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA, Sarbanes‑Oxley, and Gramm‑Leach‑Bliley) can also be followed strictly. Meanwhile, when a third‑party contract is terminated or an employee leaves and network access is shut off, data still safely resides in the host country.
• Improved desktop manageability and support. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows companies to use existing desktop management tools to deploy and maintain application and operating system images at the host site. IT administrators can standardize much of the deployment process by maintaining a library of pre‑built virtual machines in VMware VirtualCenter. Since applications are managed centrally at the corporate data center, installations, upgrades and backups can be done with more confidence without user intervention.
• Hardware independence. Since end‑user applications run in the corporate data center, outsourcing services are free to make their own desktop hardware decisions.
• Better reliability and recovery. VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure improves business continuity for offsite end users for several reasons. Each remote desktop runs in isolation on the back‑end network. If one user's desktop crashes, the other user's virtual machines won't crash. When servers become overtaxed, VMware software can move live running virtual machines easily to another system without disruption to end users.
• Application compatibility. Unlike the compatibility problems of some shared application solutions, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure runs any off‑the‑shelf, legacy or custom application out‑of‑the‑box, with no modifications.

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