Desktop Virtualization Solutions-A Comprehensive Survey

Virtualization has become apparent in the 1960s as a practice to enhance the use of expensive computing hardware. Virtualization targets to reduce the complexity associated with deployment and maintenance of client devices, which eventually helps IT Companies to reduce system management costs. In this paper, we propose the virtualization concept expanding into many aspects of IT world. There are various virtualization technologies which include storage, desktop virtual platforms, server consolidation, virtual desktop infrastructure and application virtualization. This is the basic prerequisite for cloud computing and its applications. This paper highlights the benefits of virtualization and provides a comparative study on the various products that have been derived from it. This paper also describes how to create a virtualization strategy introducing comprehensive desktop-virtualization solutions, thereby providing a high-level guidance to help develop a desktop-virtualization strategy.