VDI - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Virtualization delivers workforce mobility for hospital

  Virtual desktops have meant that caregivers at Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital aren't chained to their desks according to Ramsay Health Care infrastructure engineer Barry White.

• Hornsby Council rolls out virtual desktops

  Hornsby Shire Council in northern Sydney is in the pilot phase of a rollout of virtual desktop infrastructure. The rollout, which is due to be completed by the end of June, will involve shifting the council's employees from Windows XP to virtual Windows 7 desktops delivered via Nutanix converged infrastructure.

• Ease of management, mobility drive VDI at Bentleys Brisbane

  Bentleys Brisbane has begun a pilot of virtual desktops, with the independent Queensland accountancy using appliances that bring together both storage and compute in a single package as an alternative to traditional SAN infrastructure.

• Pental upgrades storage for improved disaster recovery

  Australian soap manufacturer Pental was struggling with an aging storage area network (SAN) that had the potential to cause serious backup issues, until it implemented new infrastructure.

• In Pictures: Citrix wins VDI faceoff

  VMware, Microsoft score high in test of hosted virtual desktop infrastructure

Whitepapers about VDI

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  Exploring VDI Architectures to Keep Both the Business and IT Agile

  In this whitepaper, we’ll take a look at VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) through the lens of an IT administrator as he takes a day to explore the benefits and challenges of traditional VDI solutions. As the IT administrator does his research, we’ll also explore the architectural case for different types of solutions for addressing VDI, while he seeks out the ultimate VDI nirvana: an architecture that satisfies the benefits without sacrificing end-user experience and productivity—keeping both the business and IT, agile.

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  The definitive guide to end-user computing and virtual desktop infrastructure solutions

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  What it takes to make zero clients add up

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  VDI performance comparison: Dell PowerEdge FX2 and FC430 Servers with VMware Virtual SAN