While desktop virtualization and VDI are certainly becoming trendy, the reality today is that properly designing a system is still complex and a source of worry and confusion for many architects. 

Daunted by the possibility of management, mobility, and performance issues, many organisations have been reluctant to deploy desktop virtualisation. This white paper explores the concept behind Intelligent Desktop Virtualisation (IDV) and explains how it can address these and other concerns without a significant infrastructure investment. 

VMware View™ 5 simplifies IT management while increasing end user freedom by delivering desktop services from your cloud. Building upon VMware's leadership in desktop virtualization, VMware View 5 delivers a high-performance user experience while giving IT greater policy control. View this webcast to learn more about what this solution can offer. 

Discover the impact desktop virtualization and virtual desktop infrastructure have on your network. 

The combined strengths of Dell EqualLogic and VMware can deliver significant benefits for VDI implementations. Integration of DellEqualLogic with VMware vSphere and VMware View can help your organization achieve optimal VDI performance. Read now to learn more. 

How much storage do you need to support a virtual desktop deployment? Discover how you can leverage capacity planning to balance performance and the high cost of storage and bandwidth in this expert e-guide. Plus, explore the pros and cons of storage virtualization and evaluate which storage strategies work best for your organization. 

This white paper introduces an integrated infrastructure solution designed to meet the growing demands of today's virtualized data center. With the ability to be optimized for a variety of mixed application workloads, this technology allows simplified management of your virtual infrastructure and can lower TCO. Read on for more. 

This white paper provides a detailed summary of tests performed to validate an EMC infrastructure for virtual desktops enabled by VMware View 4.5, with an EMC VNX5700 unified storage platform. Read now to learn more. 

A VDI deployment must be carefully designed to ensure it delivers the scalability needed to support large-scale enterprise client computing requirements. Failing to plan properly for a VDI deployment could nullify all of your expected cost and effciciency benefits. Check out this brief white paper to make sure your VDI project is a success. 

In this report the Taneja Group will first review the current barriers to wider adoption of VDI, and examine how Dell's EqualLogic PS Series iSCSI SAN arrays can help customers with these problems. They will then validate these claims via benchmark performance tests and interviews, and finally test performance claims under additional scenarios. 

In this case study, discover how you can prevent unexpected downtime and enable highly available and scalable virtual desktops. Find out how you can build a fault-tolerant infrastructure and reduce your storage requirements with a robust software suite. 

This white paper explains how the Dell Equal Logic family of virtualized iSCSI SANs combined with VMware helps to optimize VDI performance, lower storage-related costs and simplify desktop virtual machine provisioning. Read now to learn more. 

Desktop virtualization and cloud computing are capturing the attention of IT professionals, but like most major initiatives, these technologies require careful planning. This expert e-zine offers tips and tricks to help you determine the proper uses for desktop virtualization and minimize the risks of an outage in your cloud environment.