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Vendor Landscape: Desktop Virtualization
Navigate the desktop virtualization landscape with confidence.
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Your Challenge
- While Citrix and VMware are the dominant players in the desktop virtualization market, it’s important to explore other options.
- Technology is advancing rapidly to include higher performance use cases, such as mobile workers, in order for vendors to entice new customers.
- Get the straight goods on six different vendors in Info-Tech’s Desktop Virtualization Vendor Landscape.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- For desktop virtualization to achieve its transformative potential, it has to be suitable for a broad range of end users. Vendors have been pushing hard over the past year to gain the attention of those customers looking for more advanced solutions for their more complex user needs.
- When looking at desktop virtualization vendors, focus on features rather than cost. The market is competitive and selecting the solution that will fit your unique environment should be the main driver.
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Focus on investing in features that fit your user needs
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Select the most appropriate solutions for the best price
Compare and evaluate your shortlist of vendors.
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Other Solution Sets in Desktop Virtualization
1. Develop a Desktop Virtualization Strategy
Transform IT from asset management to service management.
Transform IT from asset management to service management.
2. Vendor Landscape: Desktop Virtualization
Navigate the desktop virtualization landscape with confidence.
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.
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.
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.
Manage end-user profiles through desktop virtualization efficiently and without headaches.
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