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Desktop cloud technology has gone deep into the hearts of people since its birth, and more and more governments, schools, enterprises and other institutions have applied desktop cloud. Even so, desktop cloud still has a huge market potential:

Market scale Forecast of Desktop Cloud Industry in China from 2016 to 2022

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With the iterative update of desktop virtualization technology, from the traditional mainstream VDI to the rise of IDV, VOI and DaaS in recent years, this seemingly broad market space is hidden in the struggle between the dragon and the tiger. VDI and IDV have been hating each other since they were born.

What is VDI?

VDI (virtual Desktop Infrastructure) virtual desktop infrastructure: a more mature desktop virtualization solution, characterized by centralized management and centralized computing, user desktops are virtualized and placed in the data center, and users access the virtual machine through the thin client (ThinClient) using the remote desktop protocol provided by the manufacturer.

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What is IDV?

IDV (Intelligent Desktop Virtualization) Intelligent Desktop Virtualization: characterized by centralized management, distributed computing, out-of-band management through the virtual layer to achieve desktop management and control, with a better user experience, simple architecture.

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The essential difference between VDI and IDV is where the desktop operating system entity runs. The former is centralized on the server in the data center, while the latter is distributed locally on each client.

The feud between VDI and IDV, in addition to the indescribable hardware profits, but also the two sides dig each other to compete for users.

IDV: "you have poor performance, operation stutter, PS can not be used, over-reliance on the network, poor network or network outage will not have to work, in addition, the cost of building is still very high."

VDI: "you rely too much on the terminal, you can't access it anywhere, and the data is stored in the terminal, so you have no awareness of data security."

As an architecture upgraded from VDI, if IDV is to have a competitive advantage with VDI in a longer development cycle, what else can it do besides wrestling with VDI? This is a problem that IDV solution providers are facing.

If you take care of yourself, you will never be able to withstand the pressure of increasingly changing market competition. It is the right way to grasp market segments, change marketing strategies and win-win cooperation.

From the perspective of cooperation, the desktop cloud of IDV architecture can be combined with the private cloud of cloud box, taking advantage of the strong collaborative cloud disk of cloud box to save user data to the cloud, making up for the deficiency of IDV end-user data security, and taking advantage of online document sharing and collaboration of enterprise network disk to provide more valuable functions than VDI.

Advantages of cooperation between IDV and Cloud Box Private Cloud:

1. Seamless combination, single sign-on.

The cloud box subsystem has good compatibility with the mainstream IDV architecture, and it is connected to my computer in the way of K disk. Users can directly access the cloud box enterprise cloud in the desktop, which does not affect the normal operation of the desktop cloud system and does not change the network architecture and environment.

two。 Centralized control of data to improve security.

Users store the data centrally in the cloud box to form the data sharing center of the enterprise, and the terminal does not retain the data and share it with the whole staff in an authorized way to achieve automatic data backup and ensure the security and traceability of the data.

3. Match more application scenarios.

Cloud Box is tailored to the team's document collaboration, with rich collaboration features such as lock editing, reminder viewing, workflow, email crawling, file focus, collection, and so on. And has been complementary to the desktop cloud, widely used in schools, government units, such as the distribution of submittable assignments in class, without prior preparation, the rapid distribution of project materials in the conference room.

4. Mobile file exchange.

Use mobile terminals to access desktop cloud data, which perfectly solves the embarrassment of IDV without mobile APP. The pictures and files in the mobile phone can be uploaded to the cloud box at any time and accessed at the IDV terminal; go on a business trip and check the files using the mobile phone.

From the perspective of market share, VDI still has an overwhelming competitive advantage. In addition to wrestling with VDI, IDV can also use cloud boxes to make up for its shortcomings and surpass its competitors in an all-round way. We know that data resources have never been so important as today, and all aspects of production and operation activities of enterprises need corresponding data support for enterprises to make rational decisions. IDV can choose to cooperate with Cloud Box to provide users with virtualized and secure IT management and data management services, which is the best strategic choice.

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