Potential savings on desktop management & support

VDI offers significant saving on your ongoing desktop management and support. Your IT staff can more easily provision, support and manage the desktop environment because they now reside on a central server rather than individual remote machines.

Provisioning – because there is a standard desktop build on the central server, then provisioning new users is a case of granting access to the standard virtual desktop and setting any specific user access rights. This is opposed to purchasing or reconditioning a desktop device, cleaning down disks, refreshing or rebuilding software and then configuring to the users’ requirements. Quite simply, a potential half-day task can be performed in minutes.

Supporting – again through standardisation and centralisation of the desktop makes support’s life much easier. Issues caused through users loading applications directly on their machine, updates failing at a local machine level or software revisions becoming out of step all go away. Organisations are able to control the software used by their users, upgrades and updates are managed centrally for all and not on a machine by machine basis.

Organisations who have implemented VDI have generated savings in the magnitude of 50+%, either in saving costs or freeing their IT staff to do more productive and business-enhancing work.