Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is an emerging technology that is rooted in the mature and battle-hardened
server virtualization industry.
Virtualization offers unmatched desktop flexibility and agility, maximizes storage and efficiency, and provides backup and restoration abilities not available in the standard computing model. It has also proven to deliver significant operational cost savings and a secure and compliant desktop.
Desktop Virtualization Advantages
By balancing your needs, and those of your IT support staff, desktop virtualization enables you to:
- Improve data security
- Enforce corporate policies and remain compliant with all standard industry regulations
- Reduce operational costs
- Enable end-user data backup and restoration
- Centralize and simplify patch and update management
- Reduce the cost and complexity of PC replacements/user migration
Through desktop virtualization technologies, our customers typically see a dramatic reduction in end-user downtime caused by PC issues. The centralization of desktop technologies also decreases the burden on support staff through increased efficiency and accessibility of the desktop environment.
For example, in a traditional environment, deploying a new application to thousands of end users may take 12-24 months to complete. The same deployment can be reduced to only one weekend when desktop virtualization is in place.
In many cases, our desktop virtualization customers see a
return on their investment in as few as 12-18 months.
Facilitates Recovery
As an added benefit, desktop virtualization technology enables you to encapsulate an operating system, applications and any relevant data into the equivalent of a file, which can then easily be sent to an offsite storage facility for backup.
In the event of a disaster, this file can be called up and implemented almost immediately, shortening any downtime from days to hours, or even minutes. In addition, it offers the opportunity to secure and backup relevant end-user data in the same manner as any virtualized servers to improve consistency.
For example, in traditional computing environments, if an end user's machine dies, it can take hours, or even days, to get it to be productive again. In contrast, a virtual desktop environment would enable that user to simply start working immediately on another device, from which he or she could access the exact same information that may have otherwise been lost. With desktop virtualization fault tolerance, availability and mobility are much higher.
Technology Partner
Trust our experts to manage your desktop virtualization project, and get value beyond what the technology can offer alone.
MCPc Solution Architects work with our customers to
assess their virtualization readiness. As soon as the datacenter and network infrastructure are capable of supporting desktop virtualization technology, we tap into our
extensive partner list to identify the best possible solution for your organization.
Our partners are some of the top names in virtualization, including:
- VMware
- Cisco
- HP
- IBM
- Microsoft
- Citrix
- DevonIT
- Panologic
- Wyse
Once the appropriate desktop virtualization technology is procured, we customize our service packages to support the implementation and configuration process as needed.
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