Description Of Desktop Virtualization

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Executive Summary:
Desktop virtualization allows IT services to deliver access to an entire information system environment to a remote device. As an example, a traditional computer desktop can be virtualized so that all the programs, applications, and data are stored on a server and that the users can access their ‘desktop’ on any number of devices, including smart phones or thin-client devices (IT Services, 2014).This technology promises for dropping support and hardware costs, lowering power consumption and increasing security and manageability.
Description of different virtualization technologies:
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): VDI is the most popular type of desktop virtualisation at present. It allows the users to access dedicated virtual machines (VMs) that are hosted on the servers like Hyper-V boxes, ESX boxes, XenServer boxes, etc. (Khnaser, 2011). VDI is also known as Server Hosted Virtual Desktops which relies on virtual machines residing on servers. It follows a server-based computing model.
VDI takes the users operating environment (operating system, applications files and data) and recreates them in an environment hosted on a remote system classically a virtual machine. The user can then after access this environment remotely from their computer with all the processing allied with the atmosphere taking place on the remote virtual machine.
Some of the advantages of using this technology are listed and described below:
Centralized management and better security: The Company will be able to manage hundreds of computers scattered all over the premises or even across a certain geographical location. All those desktops can be managed in one central location.
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Streaming:
Streaming makes use of a single image file that is streamed over a network into end users computers. In this type of virtualization end users may no longer need a local hard drive. The only thing the user will need is a memory and a CPU to run the streamed OS or application. Other platforms like VDI and application virtualization have already applied streaming, so this can be taken as a part of those stands.
Conclusion:
Desktop virtualization supports to develop the scalability and resources utilization. The main advantage of selecting the best desktop virtualization technology benefits the organization through the ease of management and centralize administrative task. This report has introduced what desktop virtualization is and their types along with the reasons to choose one over another.

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