Hosted VDI is all about moving desktop management from a local environment to a virtualized one. It is an environment where desktop operating systems (OS) and applications are hosted within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server (or, data center). Desktop images can be accessed by different types of devices such as desktops, laptops, Thin Clients, mobile devices, and more. Single images can be built and then deployed to each end-user (i.e. endpoint, i.e. workstation) and then centrally managed for different operations, updates, and troubleshooting.
There are several benefits of VDI that stem from this type of computing environment that can profoundly improve the way you do business, so let’s review a few right now.
VDI Benefits: Why Virtual Windows PC Cloud Are Something You Want To Know About
It is fairly common knowledge that PC desktops (often referred to as fat PCs) have inherent drawbacks with manageability, security, and resources in today’s modern computing environments that the benefits of VDI can truly help to remedy. What's even more apparent these days is the way in which VDI and its benefits are expanding to offer these solutions for remote, at-home, or hybrid environments, as well as supporting Cloud, Desktop as Service, and SaaS services.
VDI Benefits Affecting Environment
1 - Manageability:
Since VDI replaces PCs – deployment, management, and maintenance of replacement endpoints become much easier. Remember, endpoint devices can be laptops, Thin (or Zero) Clients, tablets, mobile devices, etc. Centralized management software is used to enable IT administrators to maintain devices in the network from one central server (data center) – meaning upgrades, application deployments, and virus control can be centrally managed, rather than being handled individually at endpoints/workstations.
2 - Flexibility:
The flexibility of endpoint maintenance is one of several VDI benefits to positively affect your computing environment. Routine upgrades, installations, and more can be completed without user intervention whatsoever. This also does not disturb end users’ productivity. Desktops can easily be virtually created by copying images and files and then swiftly deployed. End users are not tied to any particular hardware with VDI, so desktop fixes and new desktops can get them up and running in no time.
3 - Accessibility:
Due to BYOD and even more so the pandemic, workforces are being more mobile. The need or desire to work at home, along with more employers not worrying about if their employees are in an office (sitting right next to them) or across the world on another continent, accessibility is a key VDI benefit for this remote, long-distance, and/or mobile end users. With desktop virtualization, everything is managed and protected in one central location/center/server. IT Admins can better maintain security – by protecting files from improper downloading, mass virus updates, etc.
4 - User Experience:
It can sometimes be hard to persuade standard PC users to consider a virtual desktop environment with all of its VDI benefits, but once they try it out – they adapt quickly. Other than a few login differentiations, the front end (what the end-user sees) Virtual Hosted Server looks and feels just like a traditional desktop experience. When logging in, each user sees their personal desktop just as they normally would, up to and including preferred settings. What’s so cool is that the end-user can now obtain this same desktop anywhere – regardless of a hardware device.
5 - Increased Productivity:
Worker productivity goes up all the way around with Hosted VDI. From the IT side of things, one of the benefits of VDI here is that admin professionals can focus on other initiatives because the management and maintenance of all of their end-users are centralized, and changes and upgrades are done in group updates – and the fact that they don’t have to physically touch the endpoint hardware for the device for set-up or troubleshooting offers them time to work on other projects. From the end-user side of things, the same VDI benefit applies. If they have an endpoint issue, like a virus, or a sudden need for an upgrade, or say there was a system failure, they’re not waiting around with anything to do until IT shows up. Instead, they are able to get back to work nearly ASAP!
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