Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure > Business issues

The management of the desktop environment represents a major headache for most, if not all, organisations and has done so for many years. Regular office moves mean the expensive relocation of personal computer devices with all the associated disruption that entails. Valuable office space is occupied with the significant footprint of end user devices and the power and cooling impact is not inconsiderable.

The increasing security threat is also a concern, especially with thousands of devices in the open office environment. Remember when cleaners inserted keyboard loggers into the USB ports of devices at the Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in April 2005?

The distributed nature of these machines leads to excessive support costs. The subject of disaster recovery is also often forgotten although there should also be a plan in place for the provision of end user computing in the event of catastrophe.

Virtualisation in the data centre has been employed by many organisations to great effect - consider how this technology can be of advantage in the desktop arena.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure > The Anix Service

Anix is able to provide a fully configured and supported environment with unlimited hosted desktops and thin client devices needed for end user access. This can be hosted by Anix or within the data centre of your organisation together with 24x7 monitoring and management. Additionally, backup and recovery can take place including replication to a second data centre for the highest levels of resilience and availability in the event of a disruption to your office locations.

Anix is able to provide a proof of concept as part of a shared service offering to enable potential users to see exactly how the offering appears and performs before making any commitment.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure > Key benefits

• Remove the numerous end user personal computer devices from desks
• Simplify your distributed computing mode
• Reduce the threat of security breaches
• Enable office moves to take place with minimal disruption, cost and complexit
• Significantly lower the power and cooling requirements in the general office space