Minimize the Cost and Disruption of Windows 7 Migration

Windows 7 will impose many challenges to organizations having to migrate to this new operating system. Ensure application compatibility of your mission critical desktop applications using desktop virtualization technologies to deliver applications and desktops to your end users. Then centralize and simplify desktop management to your complete desktop environment.

 

Fast to Deployment and Minimize Support Demand on IT

 

Migrating an entire desktop environment to a new operating system is a time-consuming and costly endeavor for IT and a disruptive event for end users. With desktop virtualization solutions, you can continue to deliver the same applications your end users are accustomed to along with their profiles to Windows 7 quickly and seamlessly. By first virtualizing the applications into single image files, then using the right technology to virtualize the desktops and isolating the desktop environment from the OS. The resulting combined stack helps IT to streamline deployments of both applications and virtual desktops to end point devices. The virtualized applications and desktop environments eliminate direct dependencies on the underlying Windows 7 environment. This helps to reduce conflicts and reduces demand on IT and helpdesk support.

 

Getting Started with VMware Desktop Virtualization

 

Get the benefits of upgrading to Windows 7 without endless testing and troubleshooting of integration issues.

 

IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of having to migrate their desktop environment to Windows 7 as Windows XP support approaches its end and Windows XP availability squeezed with impending complex licensing.

 

But upgrading 100s or 1000s of desktop devices is costly and time consuming. Windows XP applications will not automatically be compatible with Windows 7. For example Web-based apps that work great on Internet Explorer 6, may not run on Internet Explorer 8 with Windows 7. Additionally, many organizations have custom applications driving their businesses, recoding and recertification their applications for Windows 7 is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. Most of them will have to rely on external vendors to provide the new compatible applications. And the clock is ticking.

 

Start the transition to Windows 7 today by virtualizing your existing Windows applications with desktop and application virtualization. Application virtualization removes the dependency of applications from the underlying operating system so you can run a single application across multiple Windows operating systems. This helps to streamline application migration, ease the burden of cost and complexity for IT and create a seamless transition for end users.

 

Once your applications are virtualized, consider moving to a complete Virtual Desktop environment and further separate the operating system from the underlying hardware and deliver as a secure managed service from the datacenter.

 

Separate desktop environments from the underlying hardware and run a single image of the operating system on a variety of machines with desktop virtualization technologies. Desktop operating systems, applications and data can be isolated and managed independently in the datacenter.

 

A virtual desktop solution lets you: