Ups and Downs of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

 
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) can render your administrative and management tasks to make your job a lot easier. VDI will utilize your hardware and your software, which in turn eliminates the need for hardware, upgrades and allows your employees to switch their operating environments. This will increase productivity for your company and allow your employees to be accessed at any time and work remotely switching between environments such as Windows 7 and Windows XP.

Before you jump into the solution, make sure you read the pros and cons to make sure that this is the right fit for your company.

1. Every desktop user can utilize the same image. If your employees are using the same image and the same installed applications, this will reduce administrative and support costs. Although, you’ll need a separate and unique image for each user and a different set of applications that could potentially multiply storage consumption on your VDI server.
2. Hardware costs are more easily managed since everything is in a third-party data center. You will acquire one premium solution system with power supplies, high-performance storage and high-bandwidth networking that all employees can utilize equally. A con of this is that having one big server means a large initial outlay.
3. Having problems? You’ll just have one system to troubleshoot. Most of the problems that you will encounter will be able to be resolved within your third-party data center since your images can be accessed from a connected workstation, so your employees can access their data and applications from another device. Although, server-side problems can affect multiple users which means anyone that is using that particular server or image.

For more information, contact AeroCom today to speak to your account executive. (877) 465-3505 or visit our website at www.aerocominc.com