Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Business Continuity Management

There are many reasons why implement VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and easier Business Continuity Management is one of them. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is an very old approach towards computing, you might recall old mainframe systems era, when users has been connecting to big mainframe systems using thin-clients and terminals. However back then, networks was slow, and users has been typically in a next room to a mainframe system or using dial-up connection to mainframe system and only text console commands.

Today, networks are fast and desktop PCs are very powerful, too powerful for most of a tasks we want them to do, so a lot of computing resources, storage and memory goes to waste. And that is why Desktop Virtualization got born. In an environment with virtualized desktop infrastructure, desktops are running virtualized in a datacenter and users are using just a thin clients to connect to their virtual instances in a datacenter over LAN, MAN and even WAN connection.

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