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The success of server virtualization in AdCom as well as across the industry has spawned a movement to extend these successes to the desktop PC environment. We are excited about the many potentially far-ranging benefits of such an environment, and have begun examining its feasibility here.
Possible benefits include:
- Security (stored data, working session, physical, etc.)
- Disaster recovery (at the individual, or more importantly, enterprise level)
- Scalability (adding users, changing workloads)
- Reliability (What pieces can potentially break?)
- Availability (What's affected if a piece breaks?)
- Compatibility (Will it work with software/hardware/processes already in place and going forward?)
- Upgradability (Is it possible/how difficult would it be?)
- Performance (Is it equal/better to what exists?
- Remote accessibility (work-from-home/travel, pandemic planning, etc.)
- Manageability (How much support complexity does it add?)
- Limiting changes to user experience (People don't like change!)
- User session continuity (Will users always get their familiar experience?)
- Energy savings
- 65w net savings per user
- 110BTU/hr heat dissipation decrease
- (long-term) Capital cost reduction
- Disposal (packaging, electronic waste)
- e-waste: 15lb per unit
- packaging: 3lb per unit