Enhance IT Infrastructure

As virtual desktop and application technologies mature and come to market, Forsythe is testing and deploying these solutions for our clients within our Technical Evaluation Center (TEC).  Virtualizing desktops and applications will benefit all organizations by lowering operating costs, providing an easier platform for management, and introducing better controls for reducing risk.  Initially the virtual desktop was focused on financial and healthcare verticals, but it has expanded to take a highly individualized approach for any organization.

Learn how to best incorporate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) best practices.  

An Enterprise Desktop solution helps your company realize numerous advantages, including:

• Application virtualization: Forsythe recommends virtualizing applications prior to the desktop, so that both can be centralized within the data center for easier management, better recoverability and tighter security.

• Improved end-user experience: With users being the most critical of the end state solution, understanding their day-to-day experience helps shape the solution so performance and usability are prominently addressed.

• Single-image desk image: Many companies are choosing to build desktop images that get reused by any user to reduce costs and management cycles, or building a desktop for each user depending on the environment, cost and requirements.  

• Offline desktop: More organizations have increasing demands for a mobile workforce. With that, end-users want the flexibility to run their desktop from anywhere, but companies want to retain control and management responsibility to a centralized IT function. These are all options to be examined in a proof-of-concept and costing model.