What is VDI, and How Does It Work?

VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is an advanced architecture that provides complete and personalized desktops hosted on centralized servers. This solution allows users to access their work environments through virtual machines (VMs).

This centralized virtualization approach enables simplified management, scalability, and a consistent user experience, regardless of device or location. By running desktops on dedicated servers, VDI ensures high levels of security, control, and efficiency. Additionally, it minimizes the risks associated with storing data on local devices.

Technical Functioning

A VDI employs several key components to operate effectively:

1. Virtualization and Hypervisor: Virtualization is the foundation of VDI and allows multiple virtual desktops to share a single server. The hypervisor, a critical software in this process, manages these virtual desktops by separating the operating system and applications from the hardware, ensuring each VM operates independently.
2. Connection Broker: This component acts as an “intermediary” that connects the user to their assigned virtual desktop. It identifies and authorizes the user, ensuring a smooth connection between their device and the virtualized environment.
3. Desktop Pools and Application Virtualization: Desktop pools are sets of identically configured virtual desktops that optimize management and facilitate scalability. Application virtualization allows software to run independently of each VM’s operating system. This reduces application conflicts and simplifying software updates.

Types of VDI

1. Persistent VDI: Each user has a unique desktop that is maintained between sessions, ideal for those who need personalization in their work environment.
2. Non-Persistent VDI: Here, users access a generic desktop, with no changes saved between sessions. This reduces costs and is useful in environments such as call centers or shared labs.
   
   

Applications and Advantages

A VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offers multiple business applications: it enables Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies, allows rapid scalability, and facilitates disaster recovery by centralizing data storage and quickly restoring desktops from backups. It is also ideal for industries that handle sensitive data, such as finance and healthcare, as it reduces the risk of data leakage by not storing information on local devices.

Endurance: A new paradigm in cybersecurity.

Endurance is a shielded work environment that combines a VDI, a secure remote desktop, a PAM, and other high-performance security components. The integration of these solutions into a single tool provides organizations with critical assets key benefits for their security.

Additionally, thanks to Endurance, companies can simplify and reduce the number of applications needed to ensure a secure workspace.

This complete integration of solutions ensures that both data and access are highly controlled, protecting not only virtual desktops but also the company’s critical resources, with the flexibility of a virtualized environment and the robustness of a multilayered security factor.