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How to use two-factor authentication in Horizon View
Two-factor authentication is an important security layer for VDI deployments that helps to prevent breaches. Discover the ins and outs of implementing 2FA in VMware Horizon View.
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VDI options from smaller vendors can help organizations simplify and save money on implementation. Here are three cost-saving VDI alternatives to major vendors.
- How to use PowerShell to track VDI resources
It's never ideal to have underutilized servers in a VDI environment. Here's how IT pros can create a PowerShell script to track VDI resource utilization.
- Dell Unified Workspace could make life easier for IT admins
VMware's integration into Dell devices and services as part of the newly unveiled Unified Workspace product could be a boon for IT admins.
Definitions
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for several specific features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.
- Parallels
Parallels is an application and desktop virtualization software vendor that offers management and delivery platforms for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows desktop deployments.
- Goliath Technologies
Goliath Technologies is a performance monitoring software vendor that offers tools to monitor and analyze data centers, back-end servers and network performance for on-premises and cloud deployments.
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Applications
Application virtualization can reduce application installation time, minimize security vulnerabilities, improve disaster recovery and reduce system bloat. You can use application streaming to deliver software on demand to PCs, Macs or terminals, and it is often combined with application virtualization. But administrators have had difficulty determining costs and return on investment because of complex licensing and pricing schemes, and also get lost in the confusion presented by different approaches to virtualization. Citrix, VMware, Symantec and Microsoft, as well as other vendors, offer varying mixes of client-side and server-side capabilities.<br><br> This section helps you sort through application streaming technologies and determine which is best for your environment. It offers news, expert technical advice, definitions, and reference and learning content to help with virtual desktop management and application virtualization. This section also helps you determine the total cost of ownership for application streaming and how to choose the best tools for your environment.
Recent Definitions
- Microsoft UE-V (User Experience Virtualization)
Microsoft UE-V (User Experience Virtualization) is a tool that enables users to move from one Windows device to another and maintain the same operating system (OS) and applications settings.
- Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is an application-level network communication system that transfers real-time data from multimedia to an endpoint device by communicating directly with the server streaming the data.
- Liquidware
Liquidware is a company that provides monitoring and management software for physical, virtual and cloud desktop deployments.
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- Virtual application delivery methods to know
- How app layering can overcome app virtualization challenges
- GPU use gains traction in VDI deployments
Management
Virtual desktop management can empower a mobile workforce, simplify desktop deployment and improve endpoint security -- but only when you create a virtual desktop strategy that suits your environment. This section helps you identify the best virtual desktop tools that enable IT to centrally manage and secure desktop images while still allowing for personalization of desktops. Administrators can run guest operating systems such as Windows or Linux beneath or on top of virtualization software, and users can use thin clients to access applications hosted on consolidated servers. This section outlines how to deploy virtual systems with a hypervisor for easier backup and more secure endpoint devices and helps you identify the best desktop virtualization software for your environment.<br><br> Our virtualization news coverage, tips and expert technical advice can help you determine how to best manage virtual desktops.
Recent Definitions
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for several specific features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.
- Parallels
Parallels is an application and desktop virtualization software vendor that offers management and delivery platforms for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows desktop deployments.
- Goliath Technologies
Goliath Technologies is a performance monitoring software vendor that offers tools to monitor and analyze data centers, back-end servers and network performance for on-premises and cloud deployments.
Highlights
- How to use PowerShell to track VDI resources
- Citrix SaaS products gain traction, a sign of IT's push to modernize
- How to fix 5 common remote desktop connection problems
Virtual desktop strategies and architecture
Before investing the time and effort to configure a virtualization infrastructure, you need a virtual desktop strategy and architecture. This section can help you determine the levels of control, security and returns on investment required by your environment. You'll have an easier time gaining user acceptance if you can explain how virtual desktops offer more efficient management, higher levels of security and lower costs from reductions in the amount of hardware needed. In addition, cloud computing can provide flexibility in the number of users, but the industry still needs to agree on definitions and standards before it can be widely adopted for storage, processing or provisioning virtual desktops.<br><br> This section includes tips, news and learning content on how to devise a virtual desktop strategy and manage a virtual architecture. Also, learn about virtual desktop infrastructures and cloud computing.
Recent Definitions
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for several specific features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.
- eG Innovations
eG Innovations is an end-user experience and infrastructure monitoring software vendor best known for its eG Enterprise product.
- ControlUp
ControlUp is a monitoring software company that sells tools IT professionals can use to manage, monitor and analyze virtual desktop and application performance.
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- Consider VDI alternatives to major VDI vendors
- Dell Unified Workspace could make life easier for IT admins
- How to fix 5 common remote desktop connection problems
More Virtual desktop strategies and architecture Topics
- Cloud-hosted virtual desktop and application strategy
- Desktop virtualization on mobile devices
- Virtual desktop infrastructure and architecture
Tools & Technology
This section can help you choose among virtual desktop tools that Citrix, VMware, Microsoft and other vendors claim make it easier to provision and manage virtual desktop infrastructures. Learn why end-user participation is vital in determining requirements for role-based virtualization, and read tips and expert advice on the latest technology. For example, Microsoft's Terminal Services, renamed Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, provides virtual desktop sessions for scalability or virtual machines for environments that need to be isolated.<br><br> This section provides information about developments in virtual desktop tools and technology. Follow the latest news about software and services, and figure out which products best suit your needs.
Recent Definitions
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for several specific features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.
- Goliath Technologies
Goliath Technologies is a performance monitoring software vendor that offers tools to monitor and analyze data centers, back-end servers and network performance for on-premises and cloud deployments.
- PCoIP (PC over IP)
PC over IP (PCoIP) is a remote display protocol that Teradici developed for delivering remote desktops and applications to endpoints.
Highlights
- How to use two-factor authentication in Horizon View
- Dell Unified Workspace could make life easier for IT admins
- Citrix SaaS products gain traction, a sign of IT's push to modernize
More Tools & Technology Topics
- Advanced VMware tools
- Citrix virtual desktops
- Microsoft Windows desktops
- Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Services
- Virtual desktop software and vendors
- VMware virtual desktop software