Improving the Virtual Desktop Experience

Desktop virtualization deployments are growing dramatically as enterprises look to reduce costs, improve ROI, increase both mobility and agility, tighten security, and manage a much more flexible workforce.

However, a positive virtual desktop experience is critical to a successful desktop virtualization project. Many well-intentioned desktop virtualization projects have stalled because end-users complain that their "new" desktop "isn't the same as their old one". Slow rendering of graphics, poor quality of multimedia presentations, and meager USB device support are some of the issues that can spur user resistance. You need to consider these "last-mile" issues when planning for your desktop virtualization project.

vWorkspace can help organizations achieve greater desktop virtualization success by providing a positive - user experience. It ensures that virtual desktops perform as well as - or better than - local desktops, by supporting a host of protocols such as RDP, RGS, TCX and Quest EOP.

vWorkspace when coupled with Quest's Experience Optimized Protocol (EOP), supports:

• Graphics for bitmap, browser, and flash content
• Multimedia content – for recorded webcasts and Web-based training
• Bi-directional audio – for dictation, collaboration and VOIP applications
• Universal printing – for driver-independent production regardless of printer make and model
• Multi monitors – for stacking monitors vertically or horizontally
• Universal USB devices – for allowing nearly all USB-connected devices to be used in a hosted session
• Profile management – for accelerating logon/log off times as well as profile stability
• Latency reduction – for instant local keystroke echoing regardless of network latency

• Connection Brokering
• Enterprise-Level Management