Virtual desktop hosting on the current platform of choice. Single or group desktop environments are available. The hosting team provides the hosting platform and environment and the Desktop team supports the desktop operating system.
Benefits & Features
- Pay for consumption: Cloud providers have large pools of resources and you are charged only for what you consume out of that pool. This means that when you are hosting your virtual desktop infrastructure in the cloud, only consuming what you need is more important for cost savings. Luckily cloud providers have a number of tools to help scale up or down your virtual desktop infrastructure to match demand. This differs from on-premise VDI hosting where a large upfront purchase is required to buy hardware that meets your peak demand, and that hardware may sit dormant for a large portion of it's life due to the peak demand being a rare occurence.
- No physical hardware dependency: If the underlying server hosting your desktop fails, the desktop will automatically restart on a different host while online. This disruption will likely be invisible to users of the system.
- Smaller footprint: Virtualizing desktops in the cloud decreases the number of physical boxes that the University must use. This means a smaller datacenter, with the resulting decreases in cooling and electrical costs.
- Hardware costs: Because virtualization allows for greater efficiency of resources, you don't have to manage any underlying physical hardware, saving money both on upfront hardware costs and on maintenance.
- Flexibility and agility: Desktop virtualization allows for the quick creation of different desktop environments, those environments can then be scaled up or down as demand requires.
Pricing
Pricing will vary depending on performance and quantity needs. Please contact us if you'd like to get an estimate for your use case.
Options
Azure Virtual Desktop
Windows 365
VMWare Horizon
Support
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