Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

V can serve as the foundation for Citrix XenDesktop™, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering that allows users to access work environment from anywhere. While the IT benefits of VDI are undeniable, the management of virtual and physical infrastructure associated with centralized desktops can present real challenges for an organization. For example, the storage requirements of virtual desktop infrastructure can completely offset the value of a centralized desktop delivery model. To combat...

This white paper showcases a virtual desktop infrastructure solution that can provide caregivers with quick and secure access to regulated patient information. Within, learn how your IT team can reduce the complexity of maintaining multiple applications across numerous workstations.

Many health care facilities are adopting virtual desktop infrastructures to enable the centralization of their desktop environment. This can not only streamline desktop management, but...

healthcare facilities may realize by deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Learn more about the financial impact of moving from a traditional one-PC-per-user model to a centralized, hosted virtual-desktop delivery model.

Forrester Consulting conducted a study to examine the total economic impact and potential return on investment (ROI) that healthcare facilities may realize by deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. A healthcare customer that was implementing Electronic...

Virtual Remote Desktop solutions based on VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and virtualized Dell (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs) can offer similar benefits for the desktop environment.

Virtualization can offer increased scalability, reliability, and availability while helping simplify management and reduce operating costs. Now, Virtual Remote Desktop solutions based on VMware® Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and virtualized Dell (iSCSI) storage area networks (SANs) can offer similar...

healthcare customer used VMware View, formerly VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, to reduce costs, free up office space and increase worker productivity in its remote offices. In July 2008, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the total economic impact and potential ROI of deploying VMware View 3, formerly Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

In conducting in-depth interviews with an existing VMware View healthcare customer, Forrester found an anticipated ROI of between 122...

expert e-guide to learn what desktop scenarios are best for virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs), which are best for remote desktop services (RDSs) and which are best for both.

Virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) and remote desktop services (RDSs) are designed for different types of desktop scenarios. Figuring out where each is best suited is the key to a successful desktop virtualization project. This expert e-guide from SearchVirtualDesktop.com discusses where the strengths of VDI and RDS...

virtual desktops that allows any organization to build a virtual desktop infrastructure based on VMware View.

As business grows increasingly productive with the increasing adoption of new technology, the risk of downtime grows with it, posing a constant threat to business continuity. And with many organizations implementing virtual desktops, high availability becomes a necessity in order to prevent interruptions to worker productivity.

This design guide introduces a high-availability solution for...

Services extended WAN optimization to 100 percent of their virtual desktop infrastructure and improved traffic flow with their existing bandwidth, allowing for secure and centralized data and access control, and high levels of employee satisfaction.

When Quintiles Pharmaceutical Services chose to adopt virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), it was critical that they were able to deploy centralized, secure data and application services while maintaining consistent network performance. Moreover, they...

an overview of desktop virtualization, highlight several virtual desktop solutions, and analyze the operational efficiency gains possible with desktop virtualization.

When considering virtual desktop solutions, it’s not just about sizing the server horsepower you need in the data center. Virtual desktops provide many consolidation opportunities, as well as some unique security and business continuity advantages.

Critical to any successful implementation of desktop...

increasingly important for companies to have efficient virtual desktop environments. Discover how to cost-effectively ensure both physical and virtual efficiency in your infrastructure by designing a storage array that fits unique workloads.

One of the big problems in IT infrastructure today, based on data being studied at XioTech, is the challenge of getting efficiency out of infrastructure when it comes to virtualization - both virtual server and virtual desktop.

Research firms such...

Tune into this informative podcast to find out how virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and remote desktop services (RDS) compare to one another. Discover the strengths and weaknesses of each desktop operating system and find out how your peers have utilized them.

Virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) and remote desktop services (RDSs) are similar desktop operating systems. Both run on server class hardware in a centralized environment and both require a remote protocol. But which system is best for...

they might have on your desktop environment.

Though many virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) vendors say their solution will deliver a seamless desktop experience, without an effective storage architecture these are just hollow claims. In this exclusive podcast, desktop virtualization expert Brian Madden takes an in-depth look at the state of VDI storage today, analyzing the effectiveness of various storage strategies so you can determine the impact they might have on your desktop environment.

In the vast and complicated virtual desktop ecosystem, finding the right balance of protocols, bandwidth and third-party tools will make it a success in your data center.

In the vast and complicated virtual desktop ecosystem, finding the right balance of protocols, bandwidth and third-party tools will make it a success in your data center.

 

Inside this E-Book:

The Big PictureMicrosoft Pushes the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) EnvelopeFighting Contention on the

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interviewed a healthcare facility that implemented virtual desktops. Gain insight on both quantitative and qualitative benefits, including reduced support costs, increased worker productivity and more. Learn how your organization can take advantage of desktop virtualization.

Inside this white paper, find out what happened when Forrester Consulting interviewed a healthcare facility that implemented virtual desktops. Gain insight on both quantitative and qualitative...

Watch this crucial webcast to see virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) and remote desktop services (RDSs) put head-to-head. The two hosted desktop solutions are compared in areas such as costs, hardware requirements and application compatibility so you can find out which solution is the most effective appropriate fit for your organization.

What is a more effective hosted desktop solution, virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) or remote desktop services (RDSs)? In...

of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment.

This white paper describes the virtualization of a given user workload, and provides a useful sizing guide for enterprise deployments of VMware View™ 4, the VMware software platform for building a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment. This paper studies two different user workloads, as well as the effect of implementing the PC-over-IP and Remote Desktop Protocol  display protocols. With the...

size the enterprise. To address these burdens, Dell offers Virtual Remote Desktop (VRD) solutions based on VMware® View, a VMware Infrastructure-based platform that uses VMware Virtual View Manager as an enterprise-class connection broker to manage user access to centralized virtual desktops. VMware View can help IT administrators decrease operating costs by centralizing management, data protection and security.

and cost savings for Quest. For starters, the set-up time for a virtual desktop takes about 15 minutes, compared to the four hours it would take for a physical desktop. Other savings result from reduced CPU/memory resources, less cube space to maintain, less electricity consumption and decreased maintenance activities...

Access this exclusive transcript to see virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) and remote desktop services (RDSs) go head to head in various areas of IT. Cut through the hype and discover which desktop delivery solution is best, and also learn how your peers utilize them.

Virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs) have been focused on more than remote desktop services (RDSs), but does that make them superior? This exclusive transcript puts VDI and RDS head-to-head, discussing their...

staffing concerns and user image management.

While a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is attractive to IT pros because of its many benefits, it is essential to make sure an infrastructure is suited for VDI to avoid performance and stability issues. This expert e-guide from SearchVirtualDesktop.com explains how to assess your IT infrastructure to ensure it is ready for desktop virtualization. Discover which issues are commonly addressed first after implementing VDI, including staffing concerns...

services but not at all integrated.

A barrier to adopting a virtual desktop infrastructure was SeatonCorp's requirement that employees have access to online training and streaming video, which can be a challenge for some virtual environments.

Read this case study to see how the benefits of Quest® Software's vWorkspace helped SeatonCorp achieve lower cost, enhanced capabilities, higher reliability, easier management and easier end-user IT support...

complex virtual environment so that your virtual server or desktop infrastructure will perform at the high levels you need it to.

It’s frustrating when your virtual environments don’t perform at the level you want or need them to. Oftentimes, this is because of bottlenecks in a storage system that can’t handle the complexity of your environment. This exclusive resource discusses a new storage solution that is specifically designed to handle the demands of a virtual environment to keep your virtual...

The business case for desktop virtualisation

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology can cut energy bills, increase business agility and improve mobile working flexibility. But licensing cost and complexity can wipe out the financial savings of a virtual desktop deployment.

How to make sense of cloud computing

The benefits of cloud computing may be easy to grasp but that is only the beginning. Big questions remain around which suppliers, which flavours of the cloud and what type of...

It then takes a comprehensive look at the new world of virtual desktop delivery and management

This third issue of the Virtual Data Center e-zine begins by sifting through the maze of products and technologies that make up VMware's virtualization ecosystem. It then continues with an article from Schley Andrew Kutz in which he takes a comprehensive look at the new world of virtual desktop delivery and management. Topics covered include:

• How virtualization offerings match up based on

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when organizations were getting comfortable building infrastructure to power View desktops, VMware is now integrating View with Horizon Data to consolidate delivery of virtual desktops, cloud-based apps and enterprise data services.

Just when organizations were getting comfortable building infrastructure to power View desktops, VMware is now integrating View with Horizon Data to consolidate delivery of virtual desktops, cloud-based apps and enterprise data services.
 
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