HP have introduced a solution that eases the management of desktop environments and lowers costs by reducing the need to over-provision IT resources.

The HP Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides customers with a cost-efficient desktop environment by consolidating many physical desktop PCs onto a single server that is centrally hosted and managed within the data centre. The solution combines HP hardware and management software with services and partner components, such as VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

HP’s desktop virtualisation solutions offer centralised manageability, efficiency and reliability through server-class hardware and virtualisation software. These solutions also secure application and data centrally while saving power and cooling costs for under-utilised PCs.

HP VDI complements other HP client virtualisation offerings, including the HP Consolidated Client Infrastructure and Citrix solutions that extend the reach of virtual desktops over longer distances.

“HP is bringing advanced desktop virtualisation capabilities into the reach of mainstream IT for cost-effective management of desktop environments,” said Nick van der Zweep, director, Virtualisation, Technology Solutions Group, HP. “By pooling and sharing computing resources for desktop infrastructures, businesses can use computing resources that would otherwise be wasted.”