Addressing Desktop Challenges With Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Thursday, 13 April 2006 by Michel Roth

This is an interesting conceptual whitepaper by VMware on the Virtual Desktop infrastructure. This is a subject that was also covered at BriForum today. What a conincidence. Here's an abstract of the whitepaper:

"Building a server-based desktop solution with a VMware's virtual desktop infrastructure makes it possible to address PC desktop challenges while optimizing usability, manageability, total cost of ownership, and flexibility. With a virtual desktop infrastructure, complete desktop environments�operating system, applications, and configurations�reside in virtual machines running on servers virtualized by VMware ESX Server software. Administrators use VMware VirtualCenter to centralize management of all of the virtual machines in their environment. End users use remote display software to access their desktop environment from a PC or thin client."

Download the whitepaper here. (pdf)