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Virtualisation Explanation
With a consumer world turning to the promises of cloud computing, why am I writing an article on 'user virtualisation'? Well, though cloud computing is a great technique virtual storage is going to be even bigger as it is the step above it when it comes to work based it storage.
Virtualization in IT or technology terms describes, when something is being separated from the physical. It is the creation of a virtual occurrence of something like an operating system, desktop sessions, applications, storage devices, networks, or in this case, the user and running of the virtual instance separately as a decoupled occurrence on top of or in adjacent to other computing platforms. It's all rather confusing but it is helping to revolutionise the way we store and interact with our desktop in a manner we never thought possible before.
To best understand what User Virtualization enhances, it's useful to define what the default option is. If your users have a workspace within any windows desktop environment (be that PV, VDI, blade PCs or traditional desktops) each user will have their own settings that express how their applications work and what resources they access. They'll also work within a security framework that grants or denies them rights to change these settings and resources and with User Virtualisation we see a different kind of approach because with this new user state possibility it does away with all this configuring. The core issue is that each time a user logs on to a device it is as though that device is being used for the first time. Reconfiguring settings each logon instance is time consuming and wasteful.
The goal to User Virtualization is to provide consistent and seamless working environments across a assortment of application delivery mechanisms, allowing the user session to traverse across multiple Desktops, Operating Systems versions and application delivery methods, runs as a virtual instance on top of the underlying desktop components, separate from the desktop assets, making the working atmosphere predictable and responsive, simplifying IT administration and reducing costs dramatically.
Another side note about this ability is that how it allows other aspects of work to become easier like training can be cut down as the system runs one way and can only be done that way, allowing people to follow the practises a lot quicker and efficiently.
With this in mind, User Virtualization is recognised by many as being potentially bigger than the VDI market itself. Time and time again we see organizations embrace these new-fangled ideas without much consideration and it flops but with User Virtualization it is changing the game. It is going to be massive, so make sure you get your head around it sooner rather than later.
Jeffrey Nevil writes on a number of subjects including user virtualisation.
Article submitted Tuesday, February 14, 2012 & read 4 times.
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