How does it work?
Let's start with our typical virtual desktop environment. Although the desktop operating system has been abstracted from the underlying hardware, the applications are still tightly integrated into that operating system. The ideal virtual desktop solution is to deliver fully stateless desktops and have the user elements added on the fly, depending on the user's profile. The fully stateless desktop model provides the most cost-effective solution by being easier to manage and requiring less infrastructure.
Today, there are a number of tools that can take care of delivering the user personalization, user data, and user profile elements to the desktop; however, applications are still delivered either as part of the base operating system ...
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