VMware White Paper Sample

Providing IT resources to users in a way that satisfies the often divergent needs and wants of IT managers and end users has been a challenge since the advent of the computer terminal. Specifically, most distributed desktop environments suffer from the following limitations:

• Data security
• Fault tolerance
• Software manageability
• Physical support/management
• Scalability
• Power consumption
• Data loss

Organizations have largely accepted these limitations because of the lack of viable alternatives. However, a new group of technologies that make up virtualized client computing represent a way of providing IT resources to end users in a way that addresses many of these challenges.