I’m an avid follower of Brian Madden (www.brianmadden.com) and it’s great to see some current articles written by him on desktop virtualization addressing key questions in the market relating to Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Services (‘RDS’). A most recent article published by SearchVirtualDesktop.com written by Brian Madden May 4th, 2011 - ‘Do you need Citrix, or is Microsoft Remote Desktop enough?’ highlights many of the key issues businesses face when dealing with Microsoft’s bare bones Remote Desktop Services. And, considering the fact that many small to mid size businesses whose budgets are constrained and IT manpower is extremely limited, Microsoft’s bare bones Remote Desktop Services can bring more headache and cost than bargained for when considering the implementation of a desktop virtualization solution.
Here’s where key vendors, such as desktopsites, brings tremendous value to Microsoft’s RDS foundation for small to mid size businesses ('SMBs / SMEs'). Unlike large enterprise offerings, desktopsites Konect Elite is not a product that has been stripped of features and placed in a smaller footprint in order to lower our price. Rather, being a small business ourselves, we understand that SMBs face similar challenges to our enterprise customers, but have fewer resources. Therefore, SMBs need solutions that are affordable, simple to install, manage and deploy.
Unlike competitive products (as referenced in the above article) which promote, sell and support a multitude of third party virtualization offerings and protocols competitive to the Microsoft stack, which increases the cost and complexity once again, Konect Elite is specific to the Microsoft platform. As your business grows, Konect Elite provides a seamless migration path from Hyper-V to Microsoft's System Center portfolio. This, in turn, radically simplifies the overall management, support, certification, maintenance and costs issues associated with choosing the right desktop virtualization solution for SMBs.
Microsoft resellers can now be empowered with a complete Microsoft desktop virtualization solution, rendering 100% account control and retention, without the reliance of third party competitive solution offerings which brings added costs and complexity, in order to meet a client’s needs.
I’d encourage you to visit our website at http://www.desktopsites.com/konect.htm for more information regarding Konect Elite and how it can drastically simplify your RDS management and deployment business scenarios.
