VDI must be considered as an infrastructure platform in its entirety rather than a single technology. SystemsUp enable our clients to choose the right combination of technologies to optimise their desktop infrastructure. VDI separates the layers that compromise your desktop. This separation has enabled different users to be accommodated in relation to key business challenges. In a broad sense VDI can solve these challenges as follows;

• VDI offers contingency in the event of a disaster through remote working and the central storage of user data, settings and information. A fat client desk top is unique and isolated so if lost or broken it is difficult to recover data and user settings.
• The TCO of delivering desktops to users is lowered through the streamlining of management and adoption of thin client terminals. In turn the carbon footprint of an organisation’s desktop infrastructure is lowered as a power hungry fat client PCs are replaced.
• VDI meets many of the requirements placed on an organisation by Compliance. Data is stored and delivered securely from the data centre and is not stored directly on roaming devices, laptops or PCs. User’s access to data can be managed easily to protect intellectual property, confidentiality and data.
• Consumerism and the resultant proliferation of mobile devices and home computing have changed the user’s expectation of how and where they can work. Mobile workers can utilise their corporate desktop and data from any device securely.

Different user profiles require different technologies; VDI grants the flexibility to accommodate home workers, contractors and in office hot desking.

Desktop Virtualisation solutions deliver desktop services to office based and remote workers. The TCO of desktop assets is reduced by centralising desktop lifecycle management in the data centre. ROI with the implementation of VDI is achieved through cost avoidance, centralisation and automation;

• Avoid the expenditure associated with replacing Fat client PCs, typically every 3 years.
• Centralise and streamline adds and changes, OS and application patches and upgrades.
• Centralise and enhance control of user management and security.
• Reduce the volume of service calls, break-fix support and administration.