BENEFITS OF VIRTUAL DESKTOP
INFRASTRUCTURE (VDI) AND
DESKTOP AS A SERVER (DaaS)
This brief paper was created to help educational institutions determine if Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Server (DaaS) from Logical
Front are a good fit for their organization.
VDI Benefits
- Reduce PC refresh costs
- Extend the life of end points
- Reduce desktop/laptop management burden
- Achieve greater utilization of computing assets
- Reduce energy consumption
- A viable long-term solution
- BYOD (”Bring Your Own Device”) policies leverage student-owned devices
Ease of Management
- Reduce the time IT spends deploying a device
- Simplify software deployment and updates
- Simplify OS and application patching
- Reduce time IT spends on break/fix
Security and Compliance
- Centralize and secure access to organizational data and applications
- Monitor data
- Simplify compliance requirements
- Recover from disasters
- Monitor risk
- Ability to integrate with Carbon Black end
point protection - Keep virtual desktops inside the firewall
Productivity
- Anywhere access to organization applications and data
- Enables Work from Home/Remote Learning initiatives
- End user device-agnostic solutions: allows any desktop/laptop, tablet, phone, etc.
- Access Windows® apps from a non-Windows® device Increases speed of deployment and upgrades
- Reduce time spend fixing issues
- Increase user collaboration
- Allow Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives
- Appropriate end-user experience
Desktop as a Service Benefits with Logical Front
- Logical Front deploys and maintains the network infrastructure
- Logical Front supports the virtual desktop infrastructure components
- Customer maintains control of desktop images through an isolated desktop pool
- Direct access to US-based Logical Front engineering team for assistance and issues
- Solutions are designed and personalized the way you would build it onsite
- No need to learn a new platform–managed by Logical Front
Desktop as a Service Benefits with Logical Front
- Site-to-Site VPN between Customer and Logical Front
- Trust relationship between Customer AD and Logical Front systems
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure designed, implemented, and maintained by Logical Front
- Solution will provide pools of virtual desktops for Customer end users