Desktop Virtualization for Trident University faculty

Desktop Virtualization for Trident University faculty

Introduction

Desktop virtualization is the new trend of the computer market, which implies the connection of different devices such as: thin clients, tablets and Smartphone's for efficiently retrieving, and receiving information and applications that are not stored on the hard drive of your personal computer or the laptop, and in the data center. This trend is increasingly broad spectrum of industries. With its help customers reduce costs, improve the level of information security and increase productivity. Analysts predict that in the next two years, the market hosting virtualized desktops will grow rapidly and by 2014 will cover about 70 million units, or about 15 percent of the corporate park desktop and mobile computers (Reliability Edge, 2012).

However, this market faces a number of challenges. Support for a variety of computer operating systems and applications on a single server require a large amount of memory. In addition, the configuration of this application can complicate the procedure of management and increase consumption of power, along with the overall operating costs of the organization. However, nearly nine thousand customers from different countries have purchased Cisco Unified Computing Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), considering it the best platform for hosting virtual desktops on parameters such as performance, scalability, ease of management and memory density (Cisco UCS supports the industry's highest density of virtual desktops per blade server without sacrificing performance and user functionality). Moreover, Cisco Unified Computing System is unique because it combines the computing resources, network systems and data storage in a single integrated environment, which reduces the complexity of management and infrastructure requirements, increases flexibility of information technology systems, and lower total cost of ownership. The implementation of desktop virtualization system will bring some huge benefits for the faculty members of the Trident University. The desktop virtualization system will contribute significantly to create a working environment that get into the employees, partners and customers anywhere access to the necessary applications and data - and it plays little role, what a network access, or what kind of terminal is available to them, be it a personal computer, or a laptop, Mac, a thin client or Smart phone.

At the level of access virtualization alongside the main actors play Citrix and Microsoft and companies like HP with its remote client solutions, NComputing, hedgehogs and Wyse a role. Since the acquisition of Qumranet also urges Red Hat in this segment. The level of application virtualization covers mainly Citrix, Microsoft and VMware on their products. For the third level, process Virtualization keeps some ready solutions providers that rely on virtual machine technology. These include Citrix, Microsoft, Parallels and VMware, of course. Others are going to go through the virtualization of the operating system. Mention may be made of this particularly NComputing and Parallels. The technology for both approaches is a little out of Parallels.

The approach of NComputing is particularly interesting because it's something different from the others, because of the fact that it does not use powerful ...