Emerging Technologies - Virtual Desktops


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Summary: 

Virtual desktops provides a host of services to users to add in access to applications and desktops.  Virtual desktops increase the flexiblity and security, while greatly reducing the resources and costs associated with maintenance of the desktop environment.  Desktop systems can run out the the data center, provision physical machines, ro run on top of existing operating systems in a hosted locally mode.  New systems and applications are able to deploy within a fraction of the time required to support physcial workstations alone in the traditional way.  Applications and Operation systems are packaged and deployed with the same mechanism once to many different deployed scenarios.

 

 

Start Date: 
October 12, 2009
Current Milestone: 
12/4/2009 - installation of POC hardware, XenServer, and host templates completed
Stage: 
Research - Project Vetting Assessment
People
Sponsor/Champion: 
Adrian Sannier, Vice President and University Technology Officer
Project Manager: 
Greg Alcorn
Contact for more information: 
gregory.alcorn@asu.edu
Associate VP University Technology: 
Max Davis-Johnson
University Technology Director: 
Robin Manke-Cassidy
More Info
Source: 
Internal
Department: 
UTO
Priority: 
none
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