Simplicity & Flexibility

Desktop Virtualisation takes an organisation’s PCs or laptops and de-couples the operating system and applications from the processing requirements and data storage. It becomes a flat file, stored on a Physical server, with processing and memory resources allocated to it via a centralised dashboard and pointing to a SAN (Storage Area Network) for access to the user’s data.

Power User

As the resources and data are being provided centrally, it means that the PC or laptop requires only minimal on-board processing power and memory. This allows organisations to replace their PCs and laptops with Thin Client machines. Thin Client machines typically utilise 10% of the power consumption of a PC.

Asset Longetivity

As they are only processing the screen refreshes from the server, they last longer, because they don’t need to keep pace with increasing resource requirement of applications.

Centralised Management

Users can be provisioned centrally, or deleted as staff leave an organisation. As new applications come, go and are upgraded, all of this can be achieved through a central dashboard and automatically rolled out, without the need to physically attend each terminal.

Security

All data is accessed centrally on from SANs. This means that sensitive company information is no longer stored on the hard drives of PCs and laptops throughout the company, access to data can be better controlled through centralised user security and the SAN technology is much more robust, minimising any data losses in the event of a disaster and preventing data losses in the event of a malfunction of a PC, Laptop of Thin client terminal.

Taking the First Steps

Castle provides a Virtual Desktop Readiness Assessment. This aligns your IT infrastructure, business goals and organisational structure with the respective technologies to deliver a fully documented overview and pathway.