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VDI: A New Desktop Strategy - A Guide to Managing User Desktop Environments with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Source: IBM
Date: January 2008
Type: White Paper
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Overview: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) introduces a new way of managing user environments. VDI allows IT administrators to host and administer user desktops on Virtual Infrastructure in the datacenter. Users access their desktop using a remote desktop protocol. While sharing similarities with other computing models, VDI offers many new and compelling benefits for increasing manageability, performance, and security of user desktops/PCs. VDI is a solution rather than a product and this paper compares VDI to other user management strategies and highlights VDI’s benefits for particular use cases.


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