Newsflash — just because something can be delivered “as a Service” doesn’t necessarily mean that it should be. Desktops are a case in point: Enterprises frequently migrate to Desktops as a Service (DaaS) because they reasonably assume that anything delivered from the cloud is going to be less expensive than what their IT departments can…

When I consult with companies about virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), they often have a very specific use case in mind. They might be moving to flexible office space and want to give users access to their desktops anywhere in the organization, for example. Or, they might simply be refreshing their hardware and looking for a…

In these days of limited resources – often both staff and budget – IT shops are looking for technology that offers more flexibility and ease of management. Enter the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). VDI is the practice of hosting a desktop operating system within a virtual machine (VM) running on a centralized server. The desktop…