Virtual Desktop Delivery

Virtual desktops are gaining adoption due to advantages in centralized management and flexibility in providing desktop environments any time, any place. Array desktop delivery solutions are capable of extending both physical and virtual desktops from a single platform to scale workforce productivity, mitigate business disruptions and enable mobile access.

Providers of virtual desktop and server-based computing software often have solutions for securely extending those desktops to remote devices, including tablets and mobile devices. Often times these solutions are also expensive, do not scale and also do not address the organization's need to also deliver physical desktops.

DesktopDirect Remote Desktop Access

DesktopDirect is an innovative, remote desktop access solution. Unlike VPNs, Array's DesktopDirect enables employees to get to their physical or virtual office desktops from any remote location — whether they be at their home office, at a customer or partner site, at a public Internet kiosk, or even from their iPhones and iPads. DesktopDirect uniquely leverages proven and scalable technologies to deliver the industry's most secure enterprise-class solution for remote desktop access and control.

Physical & Virtual Desktop Delivery

With DesktopDirect, either physical or virtual desktops may be registered for users, a process that can be accomplished by the administrator manually or via a database, or by end-users using Array Registration Technology. For organizations that need to deliver physical desktops – which often account for the large majority of office PCs – as well as virtual desktops, deploying a solution that supports both provides a single point of control for management as well as security and can provide significant savings over solutions that support only virtual desktop delivery.

Scalable & Cost-Effective Architecture

Available on Array's SPX Series appliances, DesktopDirect has the performance and capacity to support up to twelve thousand concurrent users on a single system. Solutions supporting only virtual desktop delivery may suffice today, but as deployment expands, the need for platforms capable of scaling performance, management and security without multiplying costs will become increasingly important. With Array DesktopDirect, enterprises gain a solution that not only provides the performance, capability and capacity to cost-effectively scale delivery of virtual desktops, but also a solution capable of supporting delivery of physical desktops and creating a seamless migration path towards greater investment in data center virtualization.