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Desktop and application virtualization

Desktop and application virtualization

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Desktop and application virtualization

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- [Instructor] As companies turn to telecommuting and other remote work arrangements, the demand increases for technologies that allow remote users to easily interact with enterprise systems from their homes and other locations. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or VDI solutions, take the power of virtualization and apply it to desktop technology. Users can use any system of their choice to access a desktop environment that's running on a remote server. This might be a VDI solution running in the company's own data center or a Cloud-based VDI product such as Amazon WorkSpaces. Using these desktop and application virtualization technologies makes it almost irrelevant what type of device the user chooses to access the virtual environment. Some organizations are moving to provide users with inexpensive thin clients that have very little computing power themselves but depend upon the shared computing power of the…

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