Driven by the development of mobile internet and application virtualization, in recent years, the VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) have been widely applied in the terminal construction and management projects in many industrial scenarios, including financial outlets, online education, E-reading room, the multi-terminal management of hospital consulting room, nurse station and laboratory, large retail chain outlets, call centers, etc, and have achieved great results;

Seeing that relevant technologies and facilities are getting increasingly matured, and the resonating effect of multiple factors, e.g. the rising non-contact business need in the post-pandemic era, enterprise IT managers started to put higher requirements on the performance of Cloud desktop VDI products;
 
The Cloud Desktop refers to the solution of running applications on a remote server desktop with a Cloud terminal via a network. The key point of this solution is centralized operation and management on servers, while free the Cloud terminal from burdens like software running and data storage. In short, it is a ‘Desktop as a Service’ product that allows employees to access their personal Desktop via any computer connected with the internet.

Put it in other words, the Cloud Desktop is characterized by ‘heavy Clouds and light terminals’ and focuses on achieving, based on a VDI solution, the standardized and centralized management of desktop OS and higher level data security.
 
To enterprise CIOs and IT managers, the Cloud Desktop’s (VDI) attraction or value mainly come from the following two aspects:

Rapid Deployment of Enterprise Mobile Applications

As all know, the VDI can support PC-based mobile office. But the greatest selling point of VDI is that it could enable enterprise users to achieve cross-platform compatibility and transfer enterprise applications or new value-added business to mobile equipments, e.g. using iPad to access hospital HIS system and electronic medical records. In addition to that, the VDI could enable users to access, via a smart phone and/or similar equipments, enterprise management information system, including OA, ERP, CRM, etc.

Improve Enterprise IT Security Management and Information Governance

When working with a traditional architecture, IT staff is like firemen, putting out all sorts of ‘fires’ during daily system maintenance, data backup, hardware troubleshooting, etc. And the IT department itself has to spend a lot of resources on solving endless infrastructure operating and maintenance problems. With a VDI product, the IT staff is now able to complete the management or configuration of dozens or even hundreds of virtual desktops within 20 minutes while sitting in a data center by a few clicks of mouse. In times of application upgrading, the IT staff only needs to create single system images and distribute them all at once, without even leaving seats. In addition, the VDI products can make it much easier for an enterprise to achieve overall improvement of its IT security management and information governance.

These two features of Cloud Desktop laid a great foundation for users to improve the management of digital assets.
 
IDX CLOUD Desktop
Support hierarchical management of enterprise digital assets, with an extensive range of office ports for fast application;

The IDX CLOUD Desktop
Combines desktop virtualization technology with IDX CLOUD architecture;
Turned desktop resources into a kind of software that can be easily distributed to end users;
Help desktop virtualization products evolves into a kind of information service, i.e. the Desktop Cloud;
 
IDX CLOUD Desktop, a carrier of all the advantages that SDS Cloud Service Platform could offer,
Combined with another high-quality product, Horizon, the leader in Desktop Virtualization market,
Equipped with full-time professional support services;

 
Synergy of professional advantages, excellent effectiveness and experience;

IDX CLOUD Desktop Architecture 

IDX CLOUD Desktop Structure 

What you can benefit from SDS IDX Cloud Desktop:
1.Mobile Office Cloud
With any equipment, anywhere, anytime, anyone could efficiently and effectively access his/her private Cloud Desktop;
With all the different equipments, the user will access to the same desktop environment and enjoy the same excellent user experience;
All data and desktop processes are done in a data center, so that a user can switch to any terminal equipment he/she feels like without experiencing any interruption;
User-machine separation: any user could access to the same desktop with any type of terminals at any seat, in any office room or meeting room, at home or on road, and enjoy the same experience;

2.Higher Data Asset Security
In traditional designs, the desktop OSs and applications have to be deployed at the terminal end, and, the information has to be stored and processed locally. As a result, the OS glitches sometimes could directly lead to application failure, making it very difficult to recover from a disaster. Other than that, sometimes, such weakness would make the OS very vulnerable to virus attack and lead to information leak.

With a Desktop Cloud, the terminals and information are separated. Specifically speaking, all data transmission and operation are done in a data center. And terminal equipments are merely used for showing App icons, volumes of changes, transmission progress, and for inputting instructions with mouse and keyboard. In all, it can help users easily keeps data from leaking.

Non-leaking data; Desktop Cloud enables data computing, storage, management and backup all in the Cloud;
Recover from any disaster from the Desktop within minutes;
Complete audit, back-tracing, logs, watermarking from the Desktop;
 
3. Higher Data Asset Management Efficiency
As IT administrators are freed from time-consuming travelling, the user can achieve greater management efficiency and faster problem-solving. Even at the end of end-users, people will also enjoy an obvious improvement in efficiency: Zero-waiting in an office, self-help problem-solving, higher mobility, higher business continuity, etc.

Using Traditional PC Using IDX CLOUD Desktop
Long deployment time
Time-consuming tasks like hardware replacement, system installation, application deployment, maintenance, etc;
Uncontrollable individual behavior makes it difficult to ensure data security;
The PC installation requires a wide range of security measures, leading to greater structural complexity, management difficulty and more costs. Thin client terminal and zero maintenance need;
Unified management, centralized and real-time maintenance at the Cloud Desktop backstage;
Image-based unified management enabling fast batch updates of software, application and drives;
Minute-level delivery of office desktops, ready for use;
Automated desktop deployment; Enable new staff find the desktop they need without the help from an administrator;

4.Enjoy Cloud Watermark
On the IDX CLOUD Virtual Desktop Screen, there are watermark images that are invisible to naked eyes. More importantly, the watermarks are dynamic creations. That is to say, it can be customized by the user’s IDX CLOUD Administrator. For example, the watermark can contain some carefully selected information, e.g. user’s name, email address, dates, machine names, IP addresses, etc. It must be stressed that such watermarks will never by covered by any windows. It always stays on the top of all windows.

Picture 1: A virtual desktop snapshot that’s been leaked (with invisible watermark)

Picture 2: After a development process, the watermarks are now visible;

5.Great Compatibility with Peripheral Devices
The IDX CLOUD Desktop supports an extensive range of USB devices, including not only conventional USB devices e.g. USB flash disk, mobile hard drive, the U-keys from all banks, scanner, Android smart phone, iPhone, printer, scanning gun, but also industrial USB equipments, e.g. high speed scanner, ID scanner, USB digital certificate authentication, POS machine, etc.

The SDS helps users build desktop virtual environments with one-stop solutions.

The SDS helps users build desktop virtual environments with one-stop solutions.

IDX CLOUD Desktop Users

In today’s world where the data is everywhere, the information technologies have become the engine of fast iteration of innovation. IDX CLOUD Desktop, a one-stop service enabling hierarchical management of enterprise digital asset with an extensive range of office ports for fast application.

Contact us and we will help you assess your business needs and then offer you a proven centralized architecture options and/or new distributed architectures, together with a wide variety of versions and functions that the Horizon may offer, to deliver a tailored exclusive desktop solution for you!