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Slide 1: Virtualization Desktop- Improving Workspace Lifecycles Agility in business is the need of the hour. The techno-savvy world today, has given rise to a number of solutions to help business houses and corporate sectors be agile to the changing customer demands. Virtualization solutions and integrated service management systems consolidate resources, manage workloads, automate processes and optimize delivery, thus giving these organizations an edge over the others. Virtualization is defined as using or creating a virtual version instead of a physical one and today’s techno savvy world relates to any aspect from the hardware platform to the network resource. Designed for both small and medium enterprises and large corporate houses alike, Virtualization solutions may include modules such as Infrastructure Consolidation, Desktop Virtualization, Data Center Management and Automation solutions. Whereas virtual desktop is using virtualization to run desktops through a centrally managed location that is delivered to the user on demand. In other words, a virtual desktop is an individual user's interface in a virtualized environment, stored on a remote server rather than locally. Virtual desktop infrastructure is a popular technology used to manage and deploy virtual desktops. The operating systems, applications and user settings are stored on virtual machines in a centralized server and made available to everyone in the network. Most of the organizations have realized the benefits of using virtual desktops. It improves security of data, provides for application upgrades and helps to remotely troubleshoot software problems besides reducing desktop and hardware related cost by nearly 40%. With the ability to house more than one operating system, virtual desktops provide the freedom of hosting many applications both remotely and locally, thus freeing the organizations from the geographical barriers and physical limitations. The virtual desktop solutions used in the industries can either be server hosted or client hosted desktops. Though server hosted virtual desktops can be accessed over network, client-hosted virtualization solutions are more established. Changing over the existing workspace lifecycle brings with it issues such as large-scale infrastructure requirements, the turnaround time and productivity and efficiency issues. Most enterprises thus look for a reliable and scalable centralized desktop management platform. Virtualization desktop is such a platform that would enable service providers to deliver and streamline the lifecycle of virtual workspaces swiftly and efficiently and a simple desktop virtualization approach will help organisations empower their mobile workforce and meet the delivery challenges in a cost–effective way.