Savings costs with client virtualization
Desktop virtualization offers new and powerful opportunities for IT to bring immediate cost savings across your enterprise desktops. For example, Application Virtualization (App-V) customers have reported reduction in application testing time by an average of 30 percent, as well as reduction in IT hours to resolve trouble tickets.
Learn more about the different types of desktop virtualization:
User state virtualization:
User state virtualization increases business flexibility by having the user’s personal profile and data available dynamically on any authorized PC. User state virtualization also helps IT reduce the cost of failure and PC theft by backing up personal profiles and data to the data center.
Application virtualization:
IT departments need to reduce application management costs and improve application deployment velocity. End users need to have their business applications available on any authorized PC. To achieve these goals, App-V decouples applications from the operating system (OS) and helps to eliminate application-to-application incompatibility, because applications are no longer installed on the local client machine. In addition, application streaming expedites the application delivery process so that IT no longer needs to install applications locally on every machine.
Desktop virtualization:
Desktop virtualization is all about separating the operating system workloads from the underlying hardware. OS virtualization can be divided into two broad categories:
Client-hosted desktop virtualization: Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V) provides deployment and management of virtual Windows desktops to increase business flexibility—for example, to help enterprises upgrade to the latest version of Windows, without having to worry about application compatibility. MED-V builds on top of virtual PC technology to run two operating systems on one device, adding virtual image delivery, policy-based provisioning, and centralized management.
Server-hosted desktop virtualization: Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology enables users to access their personalized Windows desktops that are hosted on servers. VDI technology is an emerging technology that is suitable and cost-effective for corporations with specific use scenarios, such as organizations that would like to give remote users access to their corporate desktops without investing in expensive laptops can leverage VDI technology.