Azure - Commoditizing enterprise services
Part 01, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.
Microsoft Azure has been in the industry for some time, and it is spreading its services to all areas. Azure is impacting businesses all over the world, especially taking the competitive edge from big businesses and giving the same advantage to small businesses.
Running a full-featured VDI environment or setting up and maintaining a high-performance computing environment for fluid dynamics analysis was unimaginable for small businesses till the last few years. It required large capital investment and infrastructure.
Now, if you are a graphics authoring company demanding 512 GB RAM, a high-end processor, and graphics cards, but do not have the capacity to invest upfront, you can move your entire workload to Azure, enabling you to operate your business at the scale and performance only a large consulting company can afford. But still pay just for your usage.
With its large catalog of computing and flexibility to run either Linux or Windows, for small and medium businesses who have the specialized know-how but lack the infrastructure for high-end processor-intensive or memory-intensive computing Microsoft Azure has become the go-to place. Azure enables them to start with zero investment.
With data centers spread across the globe, Azure also ensures a critical aspect of successful VDI, a low latency VDI environment. This ensures a seamless interaction with the desktop.
Pay as you go Azure subscriptions are what enable you to a quick start and pay as your usage.
Azure VDI scale sets also ensure scalability and reliability as your work demands while ensuring the same desktop environment for remote workers. It helps to simplify data protection and security.
For simple use cases like monitored graphics rendering or a large graphics-intensive engineering model, a simple remote desktop solution can be used instead of VDI.
Azure VDI and cloud service were a great help during the pandemic situation. Many SMEs have adopted VDI for small and large workloads. It helped them to onboard new employees quickly irrespective of their location and continue existing work without disruptions.
In a nutshell, tangible benefits of VDI include
- Remote access, productivity, and device portability
- Enhanced security
- Improved compliance
- IT cost savings and lower hardware requirements
- Datacenter features and capabilities
- Simplified IT management and easy desktop provisioning
Unique Golden Sands specializes in setting up small and large Azure environments as your business demands. UGS has vast experience in setting up and maintaining most of the Azure infrastructure services.