Popularity Surges for Repurposing PCs as VDI Endpoints, with 80% Savings vs. Thin Clients

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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Computer Weekly News -- Organizations want to simplify endpoint management by switching to virtual desktops, keeping sensitive information off endpoints for greater security. "That's why we're seeing more and bigger virtual desktop deals in 2016," says Emanuel Pirker, CEO at Stratodesk. "Sales of our Stratodesk NoTouch software are 50 percent higher than the year before."

Organizations achieve a variety of benefits with NoTouch, Pirker adds. It enabled Clal Group, a leading Israeli insurer, to quickly repurpose 1,500 desktops as VDI endpoints, saving 80 percent compared to the cost of switching to thin clients. The IT team uses NoTouch to remotely manage VDI endpoints at five company sites, and the team has the flexibility to add thin clients, PCs or laptops from any vendor as needed. NoTouch is hardware-agnostic, avoiding vendor lock-in.

NoTouch is also a lean, Linux-based operating system, letting IT teams eliminate Windows on VDI endpoints and minimize cost and risk.

In Rhode Island, South County Health used NoTouch to repurpose more than 1,000 PCs as VDI endpoints at 15 sites. "Stratodesk reduced our endpoint replacement budget by 40 percent," says Ken Hedglen, manager of technology at South County.

NoTouch is easy to deploy. A leading retail chain used it to repurpose 7,000 PCs as VDI endpoints in just one weekend. This was timely, because a major desktop vendor's PC repurposing software had not worked as needed.

To see for yourself how simple, fast and secure NoTouch is in streamlining VDI endpoint management, get free demo versions at www.stratodesk.com or at Stratodesk booth #665 at VMworld, August 28 to September 1 in Las Vegas. About Stratodesk Stratodesk provides a one-for-all operating and management solution for Virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) endpoints. Organizations from small businesses to large enterprises and governments can achieve double-digit percentage cost reductions and dramatically improved security, while retaining existing hardware and being able to choose endpoint devices independently of VDI providers.

Stratodesk users include banks, governments, armed forces, hospitals, small and medium businesses and large enterprises in America and across the globe. Stratodesk is headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Vienna, Austria and Klagenfurt, Austria. Learn more at www.stratodesk.com. View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160829005186/en/

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