DESKTOP VIRTUALISATION

Desktop Management Challenges

More than ever, companies are decentralizing and outsourcing critical business functions to remain competitive and reduce costs. As a result, IT departments often struggle to keep high security standards for operations that are located outside the corporate data center.

IT organizations face the difficulty of controlling remote access for employees at third-party and outsourced sites. This is especially challenging where sensitive corporate information is accessible to contractors or even former employees of a third-party service. Backup and disaster recovery efforts don’t even figure in the equation.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Brings Offsite Security Back In-house

With Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solution, IT departments can add a higher degree of security and control while spending less time managing the desktops for offsite and outsourced business operations. How? The IT organization hosts a complete desktop environment for each offsite user— operating system, applications and configurations—in virtual machines, running in the company’s secure data center.

It’s a fact: customers have been connecting remotely to VMware servers via Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for as long as VMware has been selling server virtualization.

For many reasons, a server-based solution like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a better alternative to fully configured desktops and shared application solutions for offsite desktop management, including:

  • Improved security
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions let remote users access applications that reside in the corporate data center and adhere to company-approved security policies. Intellectual property is not sent abroad where it’s difficult to secure. Data resides on the corporate network, where regulatory compliance (e.g., HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley) can also be followed strictly. Meanwhile, when a third-party contract is terminated or an employee leaves and network access is shut off, data still safely resides in the host country.

  • Improved desktop manageability and support
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure allows companies to use existing desktop management tools to deploy and maintain application and operating system images at the host site. IT administrators can standardize much of the deployment process by maintaining a library of pre-built virtual machines in VMware VirtualCenter. Since applications are managed centrally at the corporate data center, installations, upgrades and backups can be done with more confidence and without user intervention.

  • Hardware independence
Since end-user applications run in the corporate data center, outsourcing services are free to make their own desktop hardware decisions.

  • Better reliability and recovery
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure improves business continuity for offsite end users in several ways. Each remote desktop runs in isolation on the back-end network. If one user’s desktop crashes, the other user’s virtual machines won’t crash. When servers become overtaxed, VMware software can move live running virtual machines easily to another system without disruption to end users.

  • Application compatibility
Unlike the compatibility problems of some shared application solutions, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure runs any off-the-shelf, legacy or custom application out-of-the-box, with no modifications.

Comparex has chosen for a VDI solution based upon Octopus developed by Ebo Enterprises. The OCTOPUS platform has some unique advantages in the wide spectrum of his application areas.

'When security matters'
• a complete full featured end-to-end VDI platform
• integration with VMware
• strong authentication
• support for a wide range of client hardware
• full local control
• rich multimedia thin client with multimonitoring features
• advanced security features
• close integration in the network
• transparent connectivity for LAN, WAN and Internet
• evolution ready

Application Areas
• Branch Offices
• VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)
• Homework
• Mobile Workforce
• Extranet
• Control Rooms
• Advanced Security
• Multimonitoring
• Education
• Secure datatransfer of sensitive information
• Offline work
• ASP Offerings
• Call Centers operating with home offices
• Multisite provisioning of critical realtime information
• Remote Printing

Summary
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure lets companies preserve the security level of their corporate network at offsite facilities, while giving IT departments an easier way to manage and support offsite end users.

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions are implemented using VMware Professional Services or the VMware network of authorized consultants. These organizations can recommend and implement a solution that’s tailored to each customer environment.

If you wish to have a demo or want to visit a customer reference, ask for a sales rep on + 323731411 or send an email to info@comparex.be

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