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The Challenge

Enterprises of all sizes are poised to explore alternatives to traditional end user computing. Many are re-evaluating how their IT groups provision, manage, and support their workforce.

IT administrators need ways to boost user mobility and work flexibility while also helping to tighten enterprise security, simplify management, and reduce the overall cost of owning and operating client systems. Dell™ Desktop Virtualization Solutions are a cost-efficient way to enhance security, streamline management, and boost user productivity.

IT departments are facing an array of challenges, including:

Mobile Workers
Mobile workers need predictable and complete access to their work applications, tools, and data from outside the office.
Explosion in Devices
IT is also dealing with an explosion in numbers and types of devices being used by employees. For instance, many organizations are feeling pressure from their employees to enable connecting tablets to corporate networks and resources.
Need to Simplify Desktop Management
Managing a complex desktop environment is costly, and pulls administrators away from strategic projects. IT desires to streamline desktop support operations, manage more users with more diverse needs, while reducing costs for key tasks, including provisioning desktops, deployment of updates, patches, and upgrades.
Increasing Security Concerns
No enterprise wants their name in the news because of a security breach. Employee mobility, the explosion in devices, and consumerization all introduce risk and exposure for your company.
Consumerization
Employees now expect organizations to allow the use of personal devices, like smartphones and home computers, to access work resources.
Implementation Complexity
Desktop virtualization is inherently complex requiring orchestration of multiple inter-connected components spanning all traditional IT domains including; servers, storage, networks, enterprise software, management, hypervisors, connection brokers, and client devices.

The Solution

Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions: simplify, minimize risk while empowering your workforce

Most companies have been virtualizing in pockets in stop/start implementations, struggling to justify the ROI and move from pilots to production.

We have built an extensive solution portfolio to help simplify Client Virtualization:

Complete Integrated Solutions Stacks based on Open standards. Simple, Pre-Tested, Reliable. And extremely scalable for future needs.

Process Methodology based on best practice implementation: virtualize where beneficial, based on end-user role analysis, using the best suited set of client virtualization technologies.

Flexible Delivery Models: Same infrastructure. Customer-managed, or co-managed onsite or through the cloud.

Product Information

Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions Brochure

White papers

Fence data and not the workforce with simplified desktop virtualisation

Simplified desktop virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation works by decoupling the digital identity of a worker—data, user preferences, applications, and even the OS—from the individual client device and moving it to a centralised location, usually within the enterprise infrastructure.

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Reaping the benefits of end-to-end desktop virtualization deployments

Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Flexible delivery models, together with expert consulting and support services for Dell™ Desktop Virtualization Solutions, help IT decision makers cut cost, complexity, and risk—accelerating enterprise-wide efficiency gains through tuned and tested deployments across a broad range of enterprise use cases.

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Facilitating informed decision making for desktop virtualization

Dell Desktop Virtualization Blueprint Assessment

This paper presents an in-depth view of the Blueprint Assessment, examining key components and describing how the Blueprint Assessment is integrated into desktop virtualization planning, design, and deployment. As the paper shows, the Blueprint Assessment plays a vital role in helping organizations maximize the value and reduce the risks of desktop virtualization while also enabling them to optimize the entire client computing environment.

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Mobility & Desktop Virtualization

Alternate Devices

The business world is getting more mobile every day, and the trend is not likely to change anytime soon, with the introduction and deployment of increasingly sophisticated wireless devices and the ever-increasing reach and availability of high speed networks, end users will have unprecedented access to information and mobile applications.

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Simplifying desktop virtualization with the production-ready Dell Integrated Solution Stack (ISS)

For many organizations, implementing desktop virtualization in an enterprise environment can be a long and challenging project. IT groups must select and integrate multiple components, configure the solution for the current number of users and existing workloads, and also build in the flexibility for change. Any design and deployment mistakes can easily add costs and risks.

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Desktop Virtualization Solutions:

Overview

Find out how virtualization can benefit your company. How to design a scalable solution to overcome the challenges including cost, demands on IT departments, performance issues and security

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Process Methodology

Dive deep into Dell Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DDVS), including the five-step implementation process and pre-configured package of hardware, software and services.

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Delivery Models

Learn about the options you can select during Dell's desktop virtualization implementation process, options that include implementation, ownership and operation of the finished solution.

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