{"id":4251,"date":"2014-01-03T17:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:02:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T23:02:05","slug":"the-many-flavors-of-vdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/the-many-flavors-of-vdi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Flavors of VDI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many organizations continue to run Windows XP on many or all of their PC\u2019s and desktops \u2013 mainly because migration typically requires cost hardware upgrades, time-consuming transfers of settings, and user retaining. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aerocominc.com\/products\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Virtual Desktop Infrastructure<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>(VDI) utilizes server hardware to run desktop operating systems and application software inside a virtual machine. Thus, users can access virtual desktops using their already existing PC\u2019s. This eliminates the need for workstation upgrades, and allows users to switch between programs such as Windows XP and other operating environments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">VDI offers many clear benefits; take a brief look at some of the key features: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. Every desktop user can utilize the same image<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By allowing each user to utilize the same image, the operating system as well as the installed applications reduces administrative and support costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Processing moves from individual work stations to a VDI server<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With this feature, there is no need to upgrade numerous PC\u2019s to meet the new operating system minimum hardware requirements!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3.\u00a0Hardware costs can be easily managed \u2013 everything will reside in the data center<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Save yourself time and money instead of buying a raft of PC\u2019s that will be scattered around the office, you\u2019ll acquire one premium system with redundant power supplies, UPS high-performance storage, and high-bandwidth networking that will deliver capable hardware to all users equally. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Maintaining a single OS image can reduce management and support costs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Install application, patches, and drivers once, and every user replying on that image benefits with the update. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">5.\u00a0When you encounter problems, you\u2019ll generally have just one system to troubleshoot <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Problems can be resolved from within the data center- there is no need to run out to actual PC\u2019s. Single images are usually accessed from any connected workstation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[php snippet=8]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore and find out all of the benefits of VDI here! Then contact AeroCom to hear about our latest pricing and promotions! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/the-many-flavors-of-vdi\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aerocominc.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}