How Inuvika OVD Enterprise reduces the cost of delivering apps in your virtual desktop environment
Whitepaper by Peter von Oven
Digital Workspace Consultant and SME and author of (2024) âLearning VMware Workstation Proâ , New York: Apress
VDI vs App Virtualization
The way in which we work today has changed. That change was always coming. Slowly but surely, we were headed in the direction of working from wherever we chose to work from and using a multitude of different devices. Then the unthinkable happened. We found ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic. Covid had hit!
With almost the entire worldâs population being sent home to work overnight, organizations, from corporate enterprises, schools, colleges or even healthcare all had one thing in common. They had to accelerate their remote working capabilities in order to survive and to continue delivering services to their customers or their students.
Organizations had to provide remote services to satisfy their two most important assets: people and data. Data is king in any organization. So, how do you now deliver that data to the people that need it? And how do you provide them with the applications they need to work with that data?
We have, for years, often jokingly, talked about it being the year of the virtual desktop, or the year of VDI. Instead, we now talk about the digital workplace or digital workspace, end-user computing, or digital experience.
Put simply, these all equate to one thing: People enablement. Enabling employees, students, and customers alike (the people) to have access to data and apps. Thatâs it!
No more, no less. However, the reality is that the old way of delivering this through VDI or VPNs was complex. But it doesnât have to be.