VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE: BENEFITS

VDI solutions typically have unique features that will appeal to specific needs, but most VDI solutions will, at the least, provide the following benefits:

• Quick and easy “workstation” provisioning
  Once your company’s IT team has created a virtualized workstation with an operating system, applications, and security configurations, it can be used as a template and deployed any time a user needs a new workstation. This will of course save time and allow users to be productive instead of waiting around for your IT staff to build a computer, install software, and patches, but most of all will reduce incredibly the amount of possible mistakes in the configuration of the new working environment.
• Centralized patch management
  Since all machines are hosted on one server, it is easy for your company’s IT staff to ensure that all patches are updated in a timely manner. This will allow a much easier management of the updates without requiring to move from workstation to workstation to complete each one of them.
• Security configurations
  New security threats are discovered every day and in order to keep your company safe, your IT staff needs to perform frequent updates to avoid any possible leak of information. With a VDI solution, it will be easy to update security patches to all the virtualized workstations and ensure that security settings are standard on all virtualized workstations.
• Secured data
  With a VDI solution, sensitive data is secure because all workstations are virtualized and hosted on servers in a data center. User will be able to work on the data from anywhere, but the data will never leave the datacenter. In the event that one of your company’s laptops, tablets, or smartphones is lost or stolen, you won’t have to worry about possible data exposure.
• Anywhere access of virtualized workstations
  This is probably one of the greatest advantages of this type of solution. Users will be able to access their virtualized workstations from home, work, or vacation from many computing devices such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops. This will increase the productivity without creating security issues, because virtual workstations are isolated from the personal devices hard drives.