Desktop Virtualization – Desktops as a Service
Distributed desktop management has become extremely complex and costly. IT struggles to keep up with the continuous updating and patching of endpoints to maintain every new OS and application release, and to secure and backup data at every endpoint. Thus, many user devices do not have the current corporate desktop, lowering productivity, and corporate data on desktops is not secure, putting the business at risk. IT is under pressure to undertake expensive PC refreshes every three to four years just to keep up. Meanwhile, shrinking budgets are reducing the ability to buy and update new PCs, and invest in support tools and personnel. Illumant offers Citrix XenDesktop for secure, reliable, and cost-effective desktop virtualization.
Citrix XenDesktop
Citrix XenDesktopTM is a desktop virtualization system that centralizes and delivers desktops as a service to users anywhere, reduces desktop TCO up to 40 percent and improves data security by centralizing desktop lifecycle management in the datacenter. It delivers a high definition user experience, providing high quality media streaming and graphics display over any connection including high latency wide area networks.
The open architecture of XenDesktop offers choice and flexibility of virtualization platform and endpoints. Unlike other desktop virtualization alternatives, it simplifies desktop management by using a single image to deliver personalized desktops to users anywhere and enables IT to manage service levels with built-in desktop performance monitoring. With XenDesktop, IT has the flexibility to stream desktops directly to workers' PCs in the office, or host desktops for workers anywhere.
Optimize user experience
Deliver a high definition user experience, with better performance and reliability than a traditional PC, complete with multimedia, graphics and USB peripheral support. Desktops and applications are always up-to-date and always available, so users get instant access to their personalized desktops.
Accelerate desktop provisioning
Instantly provision desktops to virtual machines or blade PCs with the unique desktop provisioning feature. Users can access their new desktops from anywhere on any device. IT can quickly update and patch OS and applications by simply updating the single OS image.
Simplify desktop management
Dramatically slash costs from previously time-consuming and labor intensive desktop lifecycle management tasks. From one master Windows image and one standardized set of corporate applications, IT can manage thousands of desktops-whether hosted in the datacenter or streamed to the endpoint-as easily as they manage a single desktop.