Flexible & Cost Effective Solution
Today, businesses need to provide support to mobile workers and partners who work outside the office and need access to corporate applications or data. The centralized desktop strategy enabled by Remote Desktop Services (RDS) can help your organization improve its flexibility and compliance while improving data security. Additionally it can improve your ability to manage desktops and applications. RDS can be a flexible and cost-effective solution for any type of organization, particularly those with a mobile workforce, structured task workers, or knowledge workers with a need for flexible desktop or application access, including contractors, offshore workers and office workers who require a free seating environment or have a need to work from home. Regardless of the size of your organization, deploying RDS can provide the flexibility and functionality needed to deliver real value to your business.
From an IT management perspective, RDS enables a centralized desktop strategy that allows for quick and secure access to applications and desktops from any network-connected location, including new PCs, older hardware, and thin clients. In addition, all data and applications are stored centrally, ensuring a higher level of data security and helping simplify regulatory compliance. From a user perspective, RDS provides an environment where individuals, regardless of their location, have effective and efficient access to the business applications and information they need to do their jobs.
Virtualization technologies have the potential to transform your infrastructure. Server-hosted desktop virtualization technologies with RDS, including VDI and session virtualization, separate where people use an application from where it runs, enabling you to consolidate applications and data in the datacenter while providing broad access to local and remote users.
To summarize, session virtualization and VDI in RDS:
- Enable organizational agility through rapid desktop and application deployment, supporting business continuity efforts of your organization
- Improve manageability by centrally hosting and updating operating systems, data and applications in the datacenter while making desktops and applications available to remote users
- Enhance security by keeping intellectual property local to the organization while simplifying regulatory compliance