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Virtual Desktop NAS

Businesses are challenging their IT organizations to help them do more with less. Many companies are turning to desktop virtualization as a way to reduce desktop management costs and increase productivity. However, existing desktop virtualization solutions such as VDI require purchasing and deploying costly server infrastructure to get started. For IT organizations that are looking to simplify and improve the efficiency of desktop computing, vDesk over the Network provides a solution that can be up and running in a few days without extensive up front capital costs.

vDesk Virtual Desktop NAS

vDesk over the Network

vDesk over the network (a.k.a. Virtual Desktop NAS) is one of the four vDesk deployment methods. This method enables organizations to stream personalized virtual desktops from any Network Attached Storage (NAS) appliance or file server that supports the CIFS protocol from a virtual hard drive (VHD) container. Users access their virtual desktop over the LAN using the on-demand vDesk client that is automatically downloaded via a web-based client portal. When the user runs their virtual desktop, the personalized vDesk workspace is streamed to the user’s PC and executed locally, allowing data, applications, and settings to be stored centrally. When the user shuts down their vDesk workspace, the changes that were made during the session are preserved on the NAS appliance for the user to access in the future from any PC on the LAN without leaving data behind on the host PC from the virtual workspace.

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"Virtual Desktop NAS solutions help customers simply drop in a single box that serves up virtual desktops, while providing much of the centralized image management you want to get out of desktop virtualization."
Chris Wolf
Senior Analyst
Burton Group

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