Cloud Computing: Uncovering the Virtues of Virtual Desktops
July 1, 2014
Grazed from CIO. Author: Chris Carroll.
Can you name a single activity that consumes more IT staff time and presents more potential exposure to enterprise security risks than maintaining desktop and laptop computers across the enterprise? Despite the widespread use of remote desktop management tools, administrators must periodically descend upon offices and cubicles to upgrade or troubleshoot PCs.
Most organizations have grown accustomed to distributing PCs to employees, maintaining and upgrading them, and then replacing them every few years. But you can now disrupt this repetitive cycle and drive down the costs of acquiring and maintaining PCs for your connected workforce. Desktop virtualization is an increasingly popular approach that allows the enterprise to reduce desktop IT costs, improve operational efficiency, and increase control over desktop computing environments…
But if desktop virtualization offers so many advantages, what’s been the holdup in preventing IT from uncovering the many virtues of virtual desktops?…
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