Azure Virtual Desktop Crash Course: Pros, Cons and Caveats
Date: Tuesday, October 24th at 9 a.m. PT / 12 p.m. ET
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), including cloud-based services like Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, are vital to IT and data center modernization and business digital transformation. Cloud-based VDI or Desktop as a Service (DaaS) has evolved to meet today's applications' different performance, availability, capacity, and economic needs and the mobile needs of a dispersed workforce.
Join Greg Schulz, Author and senior analyst at Server StorageIO and Microsoft MVP Cloud Data Center Management, as he discusses the issues, challenges, and opportunities for using Azure Virtual Desktops in your environment. Greg will discuss industry trends, Azure Virtual Desktop initial and recurring management, cost considerations, and how you can level up your virtual desktop game.
What you will take away from this discussion:
- What is Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and how to get started
- Who should use AVD, when, where, why, and how
- Initial and recurring management and cost optimization
- Is your data infrastructure, including connectivity, ready for AVD
- Best practices, tips, and recommendations
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Azure Virtual Desktop Crash Course: Pros, Cons and Caveats
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About the presenters:
Greg Schulz, Author and Senior Analyst, Server StorageIO and Microsoft MVP Cloud Data Center Management
Greg has worked as the customer in various IT organizations in different roles, as well as a vendor, consulting analyst and author of several books including “Software-Defined Data Infrastructure Essentials” (CRC Press). Greg brings a diverse background with real world perspective across applications, data infrastructures, hardware, software, and clouds. Greg is a Microsoft MVP Cloud Data Center Management and previous ten-time VMware vExpert.