How Desktop Virtualization can Help Businesses?

Desktop virtualization is one of the most followed enterprise IT infrastructure management strategies in which the client or user desktops are standardized or personalized across the enterprise. Generally, the programs - better regarded as the applications - are installed and managed in a remote computer and the client users are allowed to access them using the client desktops.

There are many advantages of desktop virtualization.

1. Virtualization ensures uniformity and accessibility across the enterprise.
2. Virtualization makes personalization of client systems less important. As any user can access the applications and data from any client system; there is no need of installing programs in individual computers.
3. Virtualization offers better data security and protection from treats because all data and applications are stored in one place.
4. Virtualization can make a range of different devices like desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets to work as one.
5. Virtualization reduces cost of infrastructure management as client systems need not much management.
6. Virtualization helps in increasing productivity by less downtime and more connectivity.

In order to reap all the success of the desktop virtualization there should be a sound virtualization strategy. All or most business processes should be made available on virtualization and there should be strict client access management privileges to ensure data and application security. So when choosing a desktop virtualization service, choose the provider with a good track-record.

This blog is written for SWAN Solutions and Services, a leading Desktop Virtualization service provider in Mumbai, India.