Desktop Virtualisation

Do more with less.

IT organisations typically spend in excess of 80% of their budgets "keeping the lights on" and the remainder on innovation and improvement. The conjuring up of a magic bullet that will make these costs disappear has been the subject of many discussions and technology advancements.

Key to understanding the buzz about desktop virtualisation, is this desire by companies to shrink their IT budgets, putting pressure on IT to find alternative methods of delivery, one such method is the centralisation of management and control of the desktop estate. 

A traditional managed desktop consists of a large number of devices spread geographically throughout the company. Each of these end-points has to be secured, managed, protected, updated, tracked and eventually replaced and recovered. associated with each of these activities is cost and complexity.

Virtual Desktop promises to remove and simplify much of this complexity by the centralisation of the desktop. Running in a Virtual environment, hosted centrally within secure Data Centres, the disparate nature of the end point has been removed, the device used to access the centralised infrastructure becomes less important and can be delivered as a thin client device, or re-tasked PC.