Whitepaper: Client Aware Cloud with RES Virtual Desktop Extender
The service-oriented architecture of cloud computing lends itself very well to hosting client computing environments and can ease the deployment and management challenges associated with traditional endpoint architectures. However, the current generation of users requires more than basic application and data access. Today’s users require a high performance, rich experience with complex interfaces as well as access to an array of external peripherals such as webcams and USB storage devices. This reference architecture presents a solution to enhance the experience and overall usability of virtual desktop sessions while maintaining the advantages of a typical Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment. The paper discusses today’s standard VDI architecture and points out some of the user experience challenges, introduces RES Virtual Desktop Extender* and its architecture and benefits for VDI environments, and finally lays out performance benchmarks showing the raw numbers generated when executing both a synthetic as well as a more realistic HTML5 Web page workload.
Jeff Wettlaufer
Sr. Director, Product Marketing, RES Software
