One thing has become clear due to the coronavirus: work is no longer a place, but a space where employees work flexibly, securely and with the devices of their choice.
What do we mean by a mobile and flexible workplace? The goal of a flexible workplace is to meet job challenges safely, efficiently, and comprehensively – regardless of the current work location (e.g., home office, meeting room, etc.). Particularly due to COVID-19, more people are working from home – many for the first time. This presents a new challenge not only for the employees themselves, but also for employers and their infrastructure.
Traditional IT architecture approaches often fail to meet the required flexibility. This is due to established client/server architectures, where the application's backend is hosted on the server, while the frontend is traditionally run on the client (i.e., the user's workstation). This, however, requires significant bandwidth to smoothlyagdata between the backend and frontend. Especially with performance-intensive applications, such as those in CAD, healthcare, or R&D environmentsagthe traditional architecture quickly reaches its limits.
The following solution scenarios fully cover the needs in this area while maintaining the classic application architecture. However, they guarantee complete flexibility for the workplace.
Terminal services based on the Virtual Data Center(vDC)
Low-performance workstations with standard office applications can often be easily provided entirely via terminal servers. During user interaction, only the screen output is transmitted between the data center and the user – the data itself remains in the data center. Thanks to the seamless scaling (and subsequent reduction) of the Virtual Data Center Service (VDC) , challenges canagand flexibly, ensuring a fast and easy way to work from home.
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) based on the Virtual Data Center (vDC)
For performance-intensive applications or workstations, we recommend VMware VDI Services (VMware Horizon). Here, the entire workstation is encapsulated in a virtual machine (VM), which continues to operate in the Virtual Data Center and, if necessary, is supported by GPUs (professional graphics or compute processors) for graphics or computing power. This allows specific use cases such as CAD, image editing, 3D data, development scenarios, etc., to continue without restrictions from a home office. Here, too, any scaling or reduction of the workload can be implemented at any time for maximum flexibility.
