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Cloud & Virtualization

VDI

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Hosting desktops on centralized servers and streaming them to users.

VDI hosts user desktops on centralized servers and streams the display to thin or standard clients, keeping data in the data center rather than on the endpoint. This centralization simplifies patching, eases recovery, and reduces data loss if a device is lost or stolen. It supports remote work and segmentation of sensitive environments. A consideration is dependence on network availability and server capacity, since an outage can cut off many users at once.

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