7 Advantages of modern VDI solutions

VDI solutions offer your company more security and flexibility at lower costs - 7 convincing facts

Today we would like to show you 7 advantages of a virtual desktop infrastructure with which your remote work is significantly more productive.

VDI vs. VPN

This year in particular, remote access to internal networks has experienced a boom. To enable remote work, many companies, authorities and organizations have changed their IT structures. VPN was often used in addition. VDI (such as Windows Virtual Desktop) could be the far more efficient solution, as it offers many advantages in terms of security and flexibility.

Security and speed

If remote access is provided via VPN, the data is processed on the user's terminal device. If the computer capacity is insufficient or only a small bandwidth is available, the processing of large amounts of data becomes a time and cost problem. These 4 points are particularly restrictive when using VPN solutions:

Disadvantages of VPN solutions

The installation on the end devices becomes problematic when using different devices
A high bandwidth connection is generally required
Client side processing requires very good end-user hardware
All data is stored locally. This makes additional measures necessary to protect the company data.

WVD combines the advantages of VDI solutions

A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution such as Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), on the other hand, offers your employees easy access to all company data and applications. This works from any device (laptop, smartphone or tablet). Computing power and operating system do not play a role. The use of older hardware solutions is therefore possible without any problems. This in turn has a positive effect on cost planning.

Security through central access control

With VDI solutions, company data is not loaded onto local end devices. Instead, it is stored centrally on the virtual desktop and can also be edited directly there. This leaves one less gap in the system. If an end device (laptop or tablet) is stolen or lost, no confidential company data can be read on it by third parties. For the access itself, VDI solutions only use the latest encryption protocols as well as multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other high standards.

These 7 VDI advantages have convinced us completely

All data and applications are managed centrally
The latest encryption provides seamless access to all applications and data
More security: No data is stored on the computers of the employees - thus no company data is accessible to third parties even if lost
Use also possible with low bandwidth
Can be used with all possible end devices (tablets, laptops or smartphones)
Hardware does not have to be new: VDI processing is server-based - so older hardware can also be used
Windows applications can also be used by other operating systems like Mac and Linux