Transforming Your Network Through Virtualization

Explore how Nexthink’s Desktop Virtualization initiative can empower IT teams with the control, visibility and actionable insight needed to successfully manage their virtualization lifecycle. By correlating technical metrics with employee sentiment data, Nexthink provides employee-centric visibility to measure, manage and improve employees’ virtualization experience.

While virtualization has provided storage pros with the ability to overcome the limitations of on-premises physical servers—gaining more flexibility and optimization for compute and storage utilization—the data protection strategy continues to be complex and expensive. With over 90% of organizations moving to the cloud, IT professionals are looking for a unified, scalable and flexible solution to protect their virtualized workloads on-premises and in the cloud, while freeing their applications from the limits of legacy infrastructure.

Unlike the traditional desktop environment, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides companies with access to corporate resources from anywhere, anytime, and has a variety of benefits such as greater security, simplified management, scalability, and lower support costs. With the promise and excitement of desktop virtualization, many organizations are rushing to pilot or implement a VDI-type solution. However, as with most IT challenges, the underlying IT architecture and implementation can add significant complexity.

5G and the applications it enables, including IoT, requires a significant upgrade and overhaul of carrier infrastructure beyond the radio networks (RAN). To support the diversity of applications, explosion in number and types of devices, capacity and scale of traffic, CSPs (communications service providers) are turning to adoption of data center innovation adapted and re-developed for telco networks. Virtualization, software-defined controls, distributed computing technologies in the form of NFV, SDN and MEC play key roles in the new telco infrastructure. One of the key technologies is SDN, which is important to creating flexibility in the network to support 5G constructs such as network slicing. SDN’s centralized management and distributed controls over complex software-defined networks across the mobile infrastructure is also a key element in 5G scalability.