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How to achieve 123% ROI from Nutanix for end-user computing.
Virtual desktops make work from anywhere scalable and manageable, and virtualization has become a tier-one application for many CIOs as hybrid work situations have become the norm.
Nutanix for end-user computing (Nutanix for EUC) simplifies infrastructure management for hybrid and remote end-user computing… but what benefits can your organization expect after deployment?
Download this Forrester analyst report to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) your organization may realize by deploying Nutanix for end-user computing, and learn how you can achieve 123% ROI.
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Focus: Desktop virtualisation and mobility
As enterprises look to tap into the productivity benefits that come from enabling their employees to use smartphones and tablets to get their day-to-day work done, interest in the use of desktop virtualisation technologies has risen accordingly. Desktop virtualisation, after all, allows organisations to run virtual machines on their PCs, smartphones and tablets to provide their employees with access to a wide range of work applications wherever and whenever they need them. Applications deployed in an environment such as this are often considered to be easier to update, while making the process of managing and storing corporate date on employee devices easier to do. In this guide, we take a close look at how a number of CIO from a wide range of industries have sought to address the demand for mobile working within their organisations, and the technologies they have deployed to ensure data security and access is maintained at all times.
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Focus: Application Virtualisation
Among the problems facing IT is the issue of what happens when one application adversely affects another. In the Windows environment, this can happen if an application is installed and makes a number of changes to the Windows Registry and adds an initialisation file (called something along the lines of setup.ini) and a few shared dynamic link libraries.
Now the user then installs another application, which also has a setup.ini file and may even use some of the shared DLLs. The new applications may corrupt the original applications setup files or replace the DLLs with newer or even older versions – which then break the first application. This is unfortunately the way Windows works, and it is why IT spends a long time planning before upgrading any software, to ensure things in the environment do not break as a result of the update.
It would be far better to isolate each and every application in the Windows environment, which is the main goal of application virtualisation. In effect, each application can run in its own, protected operating environment. This should prevent one application from overwriting setup files or shared DLLs needed by another.
From the user’s perspective, the applications look and feel the same – but they are isolated from one another through application virtualisation. Products offering application virtualisation include Microsoft App-V, Citrix XenApp, Parallels Remote Application Server and VMware ThinApp.
Such products run the applications centrally on a Windows Server, and transmit the graphical user interface down to a client device. This enables desktop IT administrators to manage a single image of the corporate desktop environment, which can be patched and kept secure and current. Individual and group access to applications can be granted and revoked more easily and end user licences can be managed to help organisations make the most from their application licences.
