Desktop virtualization—the replacement of physical desktops with virtualized versions hosted and delivered from the datacenter—not only allows you to equip your users more efficiently and cost-effectively; it enables a broad range of strategies for reducing cost, improving service and providing more agile support to the organization. 

A complete desktop management solution needs to be one that not only meets the standardization requirements of the computer, but simultaneously meets the personalized needs of the user. Desktop Authority 8 comprehensively manages the Windows desktop throughout the desktop lifecycle, reducing the total cost of desktop and application ownership. 

CIOs are focused on raising the ROI of IT, expanding business impact, and making innovations real. This whitepaper focuses on two high return options–license cost optimization and migration to a lower total cost infrastructure to deliver the same or better business value. 

Read this white paper from SAP for an interview with Kathleen Wilhide, research director of IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management Solutions program. 

It's getting more and more difficult for SAP customers to contain the costs of supply chain management. This eBook looks at the technologies and techniques that SAP customers are using to optimize their sourcing processes and to make their supply chains as efficient as possible. 

This paper explores the most significant hurdles any desktop virtualization program needs to overcome. Staying focused on the ultimate goal--delivering core applications effectively to users--helps clarify the issues involved in desktop virtualization deployment. 

Managing desktop environments across the enterprise can be challenging for many organizations. Virtualization of desktop systems is an increasingly popular solution, but requires scalability and balanced design for successful implementation. This white paper discusses the use of Sun Fire X4450 servers as a virtual desktop infrastructure platform. 

Paralleling the explosion in materiel sourcing over the past decade, corporate supply chains have grown strikingly more complex because of a greater amount of outsourcing, increased globalization and a more complex regulatory environment. 

Connecting virtual desktop technology with the disaster recovery process has probably not been a major focus for organizations; however, integrating a disaster recovery plan for the virtual desktop is moving up organizational priority lists for a multitude of reasons. 

Desktop virtualization is a suite of technologies that remove the physical desktop, operating system and computing device physically sitting on the desktop, and aggregates those resources in the data center. Read this whitepaper to learn the benefits and immediate cost savings of these technologies to your organization's data center. 

Standard remote desktop technologies offer numerous benefits based on server consolidation, but may also restrict operating systems and deliver reduced functionality. Read this brief paper to learn more. 

Dell Inc. commissioned Principled Technologies to run a set of performance tests on a mix of current and previous generation Intel® processor-based Dell™ OptiPlex™ desktop systems. The following report details performance testing procedures and provides key findings obtained. 

In this webcast, discover how application and desktop virtualization together with blade servers and SAN technology provide the most cost-effective virtual desktop tools for everyone in your organization. Gain insight into how to leverage this approach to simplify your IT systems while improving the productivity of your users.