
Standing up a full VDI solution usually involves acquiring hardware, installing VDI software, creating virtual desktop images, and then deploying those virtual images. To further complicate things, corporate governance may dictate that the hardware or the data on an employee's desktop computer cannot leave the company premises.įor years now, I along with other proponents have been stressing the benefits of using virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for situations such as this as it allows users to work from any location as long as it has network connectivity. For some individuals, working from home is as simple as taking their laptops home, but others may have specialized PCs that are not as easy to transport back and forth between a home office and workplace.

Due to the recent COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, many companies are having to come up with strategies to allow their employees to work from home.
