Desktop virtualization

Provide end-user capacity on demand with desktop virtualization

Desktop PCs are notoriously underutilized, tying up capital, energy resources and management resources. Conventional desktops PCs also limit flexibility and productivity, tethering end users to individual machines and isolating active files on local drives. IBM desktop virtualization solutions are designed to provide end users with the same kind of capacity mobility that businesses demand from the rest of the infrastructure.

IBM desktop virtualization solutions replace your traditional desktop computers with server-based thin client devices. Your full desktop operating system and applications are virtualized on highly reliable, fault-tolerant IBM System x® or IBM BladeCenter® servers located in a secure,managed data center environment. All the data that would traditionally reside on traditional desktop computers is stored on consolidated storage devices in the data center. Without compromising usability, users can access their familiar desktop environments remotely from any PC or thin client on the network, offering true mobility, extraordinary data protection and real control.

Integrate data center virtualization with desktop virtualization

With expertise in all areas of virtualization, IBM is the right partner to help you extend your virtualization transformation to the desktop environment. While the IBM Virtual Client solution is designed to seamlessly integrate with a dedicated server to create a stand-alone desktop virtualization solution, it can also be integrated with virtual servers as part of an end-to-end virtualization transformation.

Desktop virtualization empowers end users with capacity any time, anywhere

IBM Desktop virtualization solutions can help you:

• Conserve energy with thin-client efficiency
• Improve productivity with the ability to seamlessly scale up to world-class compute power
• Reduce downtime due to user misconfigurtion or component failure
• Cut management and provisioning costs associated with traditional desktop computing
• Enable automated comprehensive data protection policy for all users
• Support end user mobility with on demand access to familiar environments and files from any connected client

If desktop computing represents the primary intersection between your human resources and your hardware resources, then desktop virtualization represents ideal way to maximize the productivity, flexibility and value of both.

IBM has hardware, software, and services to help you provide anytime, anywhere access to end users. For more information:

IBM System x and BladeCenter solutions - IBM Virtual Client solution

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