CDW White Paper Sample

With local virtualization, the whole desktop environment is deployed as one large file onto the individual computer. This approach allows you to:

• Deploy customized desktops in one file, to any machine.
• Encrypt entire desktops and back them up as individual files.
• Run multiple operating systems at one time.

With hosted virtualization, all of the components that make up the desktop environment are deployed from a protected environment in the data center and do not reside on the individual computer: This approach allows you to:

• Secure components in the data center.
• Make desktops available 24x7.
• Support, patch and perform maintenance faster and easier.
• Transfer virtual machines (VMs) to different servers in outage situations
• Back up data without causingn a local performance drain