Desktop Virtualization for Small and Medium Businesses
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are increasingly adopting virtualization that has transformed enterprise data centers around the world. Desktop virtualization refers to technologies that separate a personal computer desktop environment comprising hardware, operating system, applications, data, and personal settings independently of each other. It holds the promise of solving many of the desktop management problems that have been plaguing IT since PCs first began to multiply in corporations in the early 1980s.
Enterprise IT is under immense pressure to centralize desktops and increase productivity while also reducing costs and ensuring control over information assets, complying with security regulations, and standardizing data sharing practices across the enterprise. This apart, another major challenge for traditional desktop computing, is the question of mobility. Statistics reveal that 50% of business workers are mobile at any given time (International Telework Association) and that by 2010, over 70% of US workers will be mobile.
While this is the scenario, traditional desktop centralization models cannot accommodate mobile laptop users and they also present challenges in terms of overall end-user experience and application compatibility. Enterprises also have growing concerns about endpoint security and data leakage.
IDC analysts state that 60% of enterprise confidential information resides on the endpoints and 42% of data breaches are a result of a lost device, including laptops and mobile phones.Desktop Virtualization software increases business agility and continuity and helps organizations to reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO). It enables anywhere access and improves security and compliance. The biggest challenge faced by SMBs is resources i.e. fewer staff and lower budgets, for them desktop virtualization is a big boon.
Desktop Virtualization offers a broad selection of solutions that allows companies to preserve their existing IT investments while choosing the right technology that best address their unique business and IT challenges. It delivers a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution that allows organizations to centrally manage desktops in the datacenter while providing a personalized desktop experience for end users. It is a more secure and flexible way to deliver Windows desktops and applications to business users in any location, using any device.
As customers of all sizes move to desktop virtualization, they need simpler, more scalable solutions that integrate software, hardware and support. The ideal solution should deliver the Desktop Workspace to users the way Web applications are delivered:
- User desktop/workspace is independent of OS and HW device, delivered to any machine with no installation on demand. i.e. the desktop was never installed on any machine but follows you like faithful dog, where ever user goes whatever machine he/she uses and gives the same experience of running on his/her own machine.
- Software isn’t installed on PCs, but rather lives as a single copy on the network, accessible to millions of users, a world in which one single system administrator supporting that one copy would also be supporting those millions of users.
- It should also enable the new software delivery models like rent or subscribe for one’s favorite application like adobe photo shop, or a delightfully graphics rich game for an hour, a day, or a week, just the exact time you need, and run it on any machine anywhere, with all the speed and availability you are used to from a program installed on your own machine.
- Simplify management of user desktops/workspaces to the bone like web applications management.
- Successful desktop virtualization empowers enterprises to reduce the high cost of ownership and security risks of maintaining individual PCs, enables improved desktop management through standardization and optimizes the storage and infrastructure required.
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