Desktop virtualization vendors promise to deliver a full featured desktop experience and still provide IT with the associated benefits. the authors have found that desktop virtualization can be a natural fit for some use cases. Read about a successful case study of a virtual desktop deployment for remote users.
- Remote users were ranked as the second highest category of targeted users, second only to stationary users.
- Drivers for implementation included secure access to applications, desktop and data for remote knowledge workers.
- Virtual desktops were a cost effective way of mitigating the need to provide secured high end laptops to remote users.
Successful deployments of virtual desktops had two things in common: slightly lower cost of hardware acquisition (5% average) and reduced cost of desktop support.
