What are the cost benefits of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployment?
VDI is well-suited to address the unique challenges of managing an enterprise desktop environment. With traditional desktop environments, it can be very difficult to adequately manage issues such as data security risks, patch management, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance requirements, high availability needs, on-demand scalability and end-user performance expectations. VDI can help address all of these issues due to its highly available and centralized back-end infrastructure and associated technologies. However, while VDI may provide some long-term ROI benefits, those looking for an immediate reduction in desktop infrastructure costs will likely be disappointed — the up-front infrastructure and deployment costs can be substantial, especially when implementing VDI in-house. Outsourcing VDI to a service provider can help to minimize these up-front costs.
