Virtual desktops at the cost of Terminal Services
Greater flexibility, manageability at similar costs
Want the affordability of Terminal Services without its limitations? Kaviza gives the benefits of full virtual desktops without high upfront costs, within your current budgets.
Some of the benefits of Kaviza virtual desktops over Terminal Services:
- Full access to all applications Users have full access to their desktops and all the applications on them — with Terminal Services, applications have to be ported.
- No application licensing limitations. Some application vendors restrict usage or require special licenses in a Terminal Services environment. Since Kaviza runs full virtual desktops, there are no such restrictions.
- Customized to user requirements. Applications presented to the user based on their needs, adds to security versus one desktop for all users.
- Better fault isolation, lower support costs. In Terminal Services, an error affects all users, whereas in Kaviza since each user has a full desktop, faults on a desktop are isolated from others. When a desktop has problems, you can simply regenerate a pristine desktop in Kaviza, which is not possible with Terminal Services. Kaviza also provides the ability to cap and manage resources per user.
- Lower desktop management costs. In Kaviza, you manage desktops and users, a paradigm familiar to desktop IT. Terminal Services is a separate environment to learn.
- Desktop updates less intrusive. Can provision or upgrade system while in production, wheras Terminal Services would need to be offline when updates happen. ereas Terminal Services would need to be offline for upgrades/changes
- Comparable costs. The drawback of VDI is its high upfront cost. Kaviza eliminates this and provides VDI at a cost that is comparable to the cost of using Terminal Services. In fact, over 60% of our customers upgrade from Terminal Services to Kaviza for the flexibility and the benefits it offers.