Faced with resource constraints and ever increasing user demands, today's IT organizations seek to better utilize IT infrastructure and more closely align IT services with business needs. Virtualization has been hailed as a means to accomplish these objectives, and after realizing significant benefits from server virtualization projects, many IT organizations are now expanding their virtualization efforts to address their desktop infrastructures.

This white paper describes the challenges IT organizations face when managing large numbers of user desktop systems and explains how Oracle's integrated desktop virtualization and storage solution can help. Oracle’s solution, which is based on Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, can radically reduce desktop infrastructure costs while delivering unmatched protection of desktop data.