On 5/28/11, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
- Gain operational flexibility: Respond to market changes with
dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.
I have no idea how deploying VMs to a company's desktop workstations could possibly benefit the firm.,
- Improve desktop manageability and security: Deploy, manage
and monitor secure desktop environments that users can access locally or remotely, with or without a network connection, on almost any standard desktop, laptop or tablet PC.
Again, how is this accomplished and what are the advantages over a single OS install? None of the above claims have anything to do with VM per se as far as I can see.
Legacy applications support for example.I have plenty of SME customers who use software that are not really designed for a modern networked environment and still relies on some old style hardware-dependent licensing scheme. So if the workstations desktops these are on dies, and the vendor gone out of business, they are screwed. Virtualization eliminates this worry.
Then there is the security issue. You can fully isolate a user's Windows desktop and allow administrative access and not worry the user will find a way to re-enable USB ports.