The University of Kingston is the second phase of a project desktop virtualization migrate to start off Windows XP. "Speaking at IP Expo, said Daniel Bolton, analyst within information services at Kingston University, the existing Desktop 7000 included dual boot Windows XP and Mac OS X machines.""We have a very old PC model wih 1,000 applications", he said.
The University that, would required on Windows 7, a project to migrate easier, concluded with a virtualized desktop. Bolton the older generation would are expected by users your scared PCs were no longer your PCs.Zu get around this, if a user needs to install software, it is loaded on your own device; otherwise the University used a managed desktop environment. Phase one provides the University at the top-as a service.Bolton said users given a standard desktop rather than their own custom desktop because IT management, allocated overhead of a persistent desktop image.
The University is now phase two of the project input that will provide a persistent desktop for users, by local store to the desktop image to DVD.This said local store of this way cheaper than using a storage area networks. The virtual desktop environment has boot times for PC users beschleunigt.Boot time of 15 minutes per user to 15 seconds for a Windows desktop has been cut, Bolton said. To the first quarter of 2011 Kingston have up to 3,000 Windows virtual desktops, Bolton said.
