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Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD)

HVD leverages the virtualization technologies developed for servers providing users with a true desktop environment where all applications function exactly the same as if installed on a PC on the desk without the cost of the PC.

Many businesses and organisations today come up against major limits with traditional architectures for distributed environments.

low usage rate of client desktop capacity

total cost of ownership (TCO) of client desktops for decentralised client architecture

inherent risks of loss of data hosted locally on client desktops

loss of employee performance

HVD machines are hosted in Connet secure data centre environment with high speed links for connection by your users. Built into the solution as standard, is the access anywhere functionality helping many organisations adopt a work from home or hot desk environment.

The additional benefit is HVD provides business continuity for users. If people cannot access their regular place of work they can either move to another location, Internet café or home to continue working.

Connet provides a low cost, simple and highly scalable hosted HVD solution to run proof of concept and user acceptance testing. HVD machines are created from a template that we build in conjunction with you to ensure all applications are installed for your users. Using Microsoft roaming profiles, each user will only have access to the applications they require to carry out their day to day work.

From an IT perspective, virtual desktops allow many benefits relative to traditional desktop delivery models (physical desktops and terminal services).

Rapid provisioning: Desktops can be centrally provisioned, maintained and de-provisioned as required.

Centralized storage and back-up: Entire desktop images can be centrally backed up using the enterprise's storage infrastructure.

Significantly reduced desk-side visits: Because a user’s PC is now a virtual machine or a file, it can be backed up and restored very easily. The ability to snapshot a virtual desktop and “instantly re-image” it significantly reduces the cost of support.

High Availability: In traditional desktop models, if a user’s hard disk crashes it leads to a significant amount of downtime. In the case of virtual desktops, hard disk failures cause no downtime and no support overhead for IT.

Power savings: Thin clients consume ¼ of the power compared to physical desktops.

Benefits for end-users

Improved productivity via access to a fully functional work desktop from anywhere

Improved productivity via significantly lower downtime

Computing power on demand: Power users can be given the functionality to provision additional machines for themselves, or go in and upgrade existing machines in advance of a compute intensive task