The ability to manage the application stack-from Windows infrastructure to approved applications, their pre-requisites, updates, etc.User management, including credentials, profiles, roles, security, and more.Unification of management of all aspects of the VDI environment, including infrastructure and storage.Automation of the deployment of virtual desktops at scale.VDS is designed to manage all aspects of the virtual desktop cycle, including: After deployment, management of the virtual infrastructure is streamlined by event-driven toolsets and policy-based management designed to keep workspaces up to date, in sync, and meeting service level expectations. The Virtual Desktop Service is engineered to automate the hundreds of manual tasks required for deploying desktops that can normally take multiple days with the goal of reducing deployment time significantly. The service is SaaS-delivered access, enabling organizations to manage their virtual desktop infrastructure across public and private clouds. NetApp VDS is a SaaS-delivered global control plane for VDI, ideal for enterprises who wish to manage their VDI internally, on premises, in Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS. Nearly one-quarter (22%) of current and potential VDI users remain concerned about the potential for security breaches of managed desktop environments. Organizations report management complexity (29%) and total cost of the solution (26%) as two of the most common challenges. There are still challenges associated with VDI deployments, despite the reported benefits (See Figure 1). When VDI strategies and implementation plans align to provide fixes to existing shortcomings, the technology enables businesses to achieve their goals of improving the end-user workspace delivery experience. Specifically, improved security (39%), decreased operational expenses (38%), and employee productivity gains (36%) all stand out as top benefits that VDI has delivered to current users. The most common benefits of VDI align with the challenges identified by organizations with regard to their traditional desktop delivery experience. The number of current VDI users who report that more than half of their desktop environment is composed of VDI instances is expected to more than triple (from 8% to 27%) over the next two years. With this experience and success that current users have had with the delivery model, the drive to expand VDI implementations is strong. Historically, VDI usage has been limited to narrowly defined user segments, even though these implementations have clearly demonstrated improvements in the way that IT can manage and maintain a digital workspace environment for users. The usage of VDI has grown in terms of the number of businesses using it but rarely has the technology been used in a company-wide fashion. More than two-thirds (67%) of respondents indicate that their organization is currently planning, deploying, or actively using virtual desktop infrastructure technology. In a recent survey, ESG asked IT professionals about their organizations’ productivity applications and endpoint devices, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and desktop-as-a-service solutions (DaaS). We also take an analytic look at cost of ownership to explore how NetApp VDS could reduce cloud infrastructure spending through advanced scaling and resource management technologies and IT administrative costs through automation and streamlining. This ESG Technical Validation examines the capability of NetApp Virtual Desktop Service (VDS) to deploy, manage, and optimize virtual desktop environments through a SaaS-delivered global control plane for hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
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