ITBusinessEdge: Why Small Businesses Should Be Using Desktop Virtualization
The reasons include cost savaings, data security and to help cope with very fast business growth or situations in which a company has a high proportion of temporary contractors working in the business.
“SMBs generally have been slower than enterprise companies when it comes to adopting virtualization, usually due to barriers relating to costs or technical complexity. With virtualization squarely in the mainstream, small and medium businesses are fortunately much more aware of its advantages now.
One facet of virtualization that is quickly gaining popularity is desktop virtualization, also known as thin computing or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). In a nutshell, desktop virtualization involves running virtual machine instances on servers while frontend appliances or client software displays the screen output and facilitates end-user interaction.”