Desktop Virtualization

Challenges for desktop management 

With the continual increase of diversified and widely distributed desktop terminals, it becomes more and more difficult to manage the desktop and protect security. The following major challenges are faced by enterprises in desktop management: 

It is necessary to keep updating and maintaining hundreds of desktop equipment (desktop computer, laptop computer and mobile terminal) so as to guarantee that they all conform to the enterprise’s uniform security regulations; 

Where it becomes necessary to update the operating system (e.g. Windows 7) or deploy any new business application system, the IT Department has to do massive migration work and consider the compatibility of different types of equipment to the new system; 

In order to improve work efficiency, the user needs to access various types of application systems on any equipment, at any place and at any time; 

The IT Department needs to control and protect the security of data distributed on various types of desktop equipment and try to prevent data disclosure and recover data after failure.

 

Trust-type desktop virtualization solution 

With the trust-type desktop virtualization solution, the desktop systems of employees’ computers are virtualized so that the desktop systems of all employees are deployed on the data center and the employees can use various types of terminals to access their respective desktop environments. In this way, the IT Department can collectively deploy, maintain and control the desktop systems of all employees. As the business data and user documents of the desktop system are all saved on the server of the data center, the security of data is well guaranteed. Moreover, the client-terminal does not need to run any application locally. Instead, it only needs to acquire the running results sent from the server according to RDP or PCoIP or other high-performance remote desktop transmission protocol. In this way, all employees can have the same user experience as the traditional PC whether they are accessing through an LAN or remotely. Please see the following Figure for the diagram of trust-type desktop virtualization solution:

 

 

Conclusions 

The desktop virtualization solution is expected to improve the deployment and management of existing desktop systems through the deployment of a collective virtual desktop architecture so that the security of the desktop system can be controlled more easily, the desktop system can be deployed and expanded more flexibly, reducing the total ownership costs and guaranteeing the same operating experience for all users.