Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

This document describes the Getronics position towards Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). VDI is the technique to use hosted virtual desktops (full fat-client user environments, consisting of Operating System and applications, running as virtual machines in a Datacenter). These virtual desktops are accessed across the network via a PC/Laptop with a software agent installed or via a thin-client device.

VDI provides a solution for market trends like centralization, enhanced security, data centric computing and green-IT, by putting all data and applications into the data center and providing the end-user with a low power Thin-Client device.

Getronics helps customers in leveraging flexibility, cost-reduction and meeting business requirements by choosing the optimal solution. VDI is one of the ways to achieve the goals of a company in optimizing the workspace. VDI will be a way to deliver desktop functionality in Future-Ready Workspace next to the current fat client and (thin client) Citrix Server Based Computing (SBC) way of offering a desktop. As a leading workspace management party Getronics is able to help customers make the correct decisions in balancing end-user needs to business requirements.