Virtually Broken: 3 VDI Deficiencies You Need To Know About…

Chances are you’ve had some experience with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). This desktop-centric service allows users to access their desktop from any location, without being tied to a single client device. It also provides IT managers a client environment that is easier to maintain than individual client devices.

Those features are great to have, but what you’ve likely noticed is that VDI also comes with a series of not-so-great characteristics. Things like storage that doesn’t scale and unnecessary security risks. These aspects of VDI can hinder both your user experience and your company’s bottom line. Read on to learn more about these VDI deficiencies:

VDI Deficiency: Storage that doesn’t scale.

As Margret Jones of TechTarget explains: “It’s easy to scale up from 50 users to 100 or maybe 150, but your VDI pilot has a ceiling, and you’ll hit it. Once you do, you may have to tear down your architecture and start over with a new one that can handle the workload.”

Wow. That sounds like a pricey pain in the ass.

Forget trying to plan ahead, either. Large VDI environments don’t scale down easily and are pricey to deploy.

To make matters worse, this lack of storage often becomes the root cause of performance problems. And, as a result, VDI can quickly become a money pit.

VDI Deficiency: Performance-limiting bandwidth demands.

Bandwidth has always been a limiting factor for VDI implementation. Although VDI vendors have tried to solve this issue by improving protocol performance and enhancing compression schemes, at some point, bandwidth ultimately becomes a limiting factor for successful VDI.

VDI Deficiency: Unnecessary security risks.

It’s been said before that VDI both enriches—and reduces—desktop security. How backwards is that?

Sure, VDI can offer top-notch desktop security. In fact, securing virtual desktops is often easier than security physical desktops. However, just because one option is more secure than a non-secure option, doesn’t make it secure.

As Brien Posey explains in his TechTarget article, one major security issue is external access. “These days, users want remote access to their virtual desktops from anywhere, on any device,” an expectation that can greatly complicate security, says Posey. “Not only must organizations ensure that remote access portals are secure, but they must also make sure virtual desktops and sensitive data remain secure, even when they are accessed through insecure end-user devices.”

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