Unidesk Desktop Layering Technology Transforms VDI
Unidesk's patent-pending desktop layering technology takes VDI to a new level by giving IT administrators the management simplicity and storage efficiency of non-persistent, stateless desktops, while offering end users a persistent, stateful user experience. Here is how Unidesk combines the best of both models to eliminate VDI cost and complexity and expand virtual desktop use cases.
We Change Storage
Unlike other approaches, we don't try to modify the behavior of Microsoft Windows. We change the storage that is presented to Windows. By living between the hypervisor and the operating system, we're able to manage all desktop components - operating system, applications, and persona - with one, seamless solution.
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Without Unidesk, desktops boot off of a C: drive that is a mishmash of Windows itself, IT-delivered applications, user-installed applications, user data, and user profiles. As end users and desktop administrators both make changes to this monolithic image, desktops gradually degrade and become more unstable. They also become much harder to patch, personalize, and repair. | With Unidesk, desktops boot off of a synthetic C: drive made up of independently managed layers. IT creates single pristine layers of Windows and shared applications. End users are free to do whatever they want in their personalization layers. Unidesk dynamically composites these layers at boot time into unified storage. Desktops become easy to patch, personalize, and repair. |
Simple Concept, Sophisticated Implementation
It's a simple concept, but one that requires tremendous innovation and expertise to implement. That's why we've filed patents on our two enabling technologies:
Next step: Learn more about how our hypervisor-independent layering engine and layer replication and delivery system work together to create a new, simpler paradigm for desktop management and user personalization.
