Virtualization... To many, it sounds high tech, futuristic, a technology thought to be too advanced for their business setting. However, virtualization is not complex and in fact, desktop virtualization is becoming a common busines technology that can be introduced on a small scale and expanded. One thing for sure, the future will bring your organization better efficiencies and cost savings with the appropriate desktop virtualization solution.
This month's article titled
"The Evolving Desktop: New Challenges Bring Desktop Virtualization to Center Stage"
comes from The Processor (www.processor.com) and conveys useful information your company can use to consider desktop virtualization options.
By: Julie Knudson
Today's enterprises are findng a lot to like in desktop virtualization, including better control over sensitive data, lower hardware costs, more ways to support obile workers, and a way to cope
with reduced IT staffing. We've put together a guide to help you understand desktop virtualization's place in the market and the advantages it might offer
your organization.
Multiple Approaches
Michele Borovac, vice president of marketing at Wanova explains that desktop virtualization essentially targets one fundamental objective: "Separating a logical desktop, which would be what users think of as their desktop-applications, user data, and profiles-from the physical hardware it's running on." That separation can take several forms.
This article originally appears in the Volume 33 Number 07 issue of Processor, www.processor.com
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Want to try desktop virtualization? One way a client can start small is by using the free version of ESXi from VMware. If it works well and it does what you want it to do, then you can take advantage of any of the more advanced features by purchasing the product. So there isn't much risk in taking the leap other than it being another software product to maintain over time, although minimally compared to a Microsoft operating system.
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