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Formulate a User Profile Management Strategy

Manage end-user profiles through desktop virtualization efficiently and without headaches.

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Allowing end users to personalize their virtual desktops improves the user experience, and boosts an organization’s chances for a successful VDI implementation. However, personalization also creates a new pain: management of those virtual user profiles. This solution set looks at understanding this new virtualization challenge and previewing some of the vendors offering products in the space.

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VMware Plans to Ease Virtual Desktop Management with Virtual Profiles

Virtual desktop images are hosted in the data center where they are centrally managed. One of the challenges with VMware's virtual desktop was that individual desktop images could quickly swell with user data. To improve storage utilization and management of user profile data, VMware announced that it will license a solution from RTO Software in the next release of VMware View.

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Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Desktop Virtualization

Desktop virtualization continues to expand in both function and use case. Select the solution that fits your desktop situation and provides the best user experience and TCO for your organization's needs.

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Storyboard: Develop a Desktop Virtualization Strategy

Desktop virtualization redefines how desktop computer services are delivered, offering the best of both worlds: centralization plus full desktops for more types of users. Evaluate the potential and design a right-fit deployment for your organization.

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virtualization, VDI, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, VMware, virtual desktop, user experience, user profiles

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Manage end-user profiles through desktop virtualization efficiently and without headaches.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Desktop Virtualization
1. Develop a Desktop Virtualization Strategy
Transform IT from asset management to service management.
2. Vendor Landscape: Desktop Virtualization
Navigate the desktop virtualization landscape with confidence.
3. Take Steps to Successful VDI Implementation
VDI has a lot of moving parts. Get them moving in the right direction.
4. Consider BYOC as Part of a Desktop-as-a-Service Strategy
Developing a model for desktop computing without desktop asset management is the vanguard of IT-as-a-service.
5. Formulate a User Profile Management Strategy
Manage end-user profiles through desktop virtualization efficiently and without headaches.
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