Five Ways Citrix XenDesktop Improves Your Windows 7 Migration
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by admin |
Windows 7 has arrived, is popular and is coming to an enterprise near you. Soon. Microsoft has already sold 175 million licenses, according to VentureBeat, making it the company’s fastest selling operating system in history. Many IT departments are already planning their migrations, a process that is likely to be long, time-consuming and packed with risk. Smooth out this operating system migration, and you can lower the total cost of ownership while easing the pressure on your department.
Much of the resistance to adopting a virtual desktop infrastructure is similar to that regarding migrating to Windows 7: both technologies require a significant amount of change and effort. Put the two together, however, and you minimize disruption and accelerate ROI for both solutions. In the end, you gain a much larger set of benefits for comparatively little disruption.
So, how can Citrix XenDesktop facilitate a Windows 7 migration and rollout? Here are five ways:
1. Legacy application access: virtualize with XenDesktop, and you can deliver applications on demand to make sure that even legacy apps are accessible from the Windows 7 operating system
2. Clean image: through desktop virtualization, you can implement a “desktop-as-a-service” infrastructure to deliver a pristine Windows 7 image to any endpoint at each login
3. Device independence: with virtual desktops, you can deliver Windows 7 to any device, anywhere, including: thin clients, home PCs, Linux, MAC or even mobile devices … with only a simple network connection (and other corporate login requirements, as necessary)
4. Rapid provisioning: provision Windows 7 desktops in seconds, and attain fast office moves, accelerate employee on-boarding and address other corporate changes and structures, from temporary and contract workers to post-merger integration
5. Centralize corporate data: remove your intellectual property and other sensitive information from the Windows 7 endpoint in order to mitigate security risks and keep it all safe in the datacenter.
Tags: Citrix, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft, risk management, ROI, virtual desktops, Windows 7, XenDesktop
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Tags: Tags: Citrix, Desktop Virtualization, Microsoft, risk management, ROI, virtual desktops, Windows 7, XenDesktop
