Business across Indian can now deploy graphics accelerated virtual desktops to their employees – cost effectively, anywhere and on any device with the adoption of Nvidia Grid technology by leading technology partners, Nvidia today announced.
“Nvidia has always believed that visual computing is the future,” reiterated Jen-Hsun Huang, Co-Founder, President & CEO, NVIDIA, at a press conference in Bangalore. “Today, we’re here to enable Enterprise Virtualisation 2.0”
Today’s enterprise scenario is characterized by two emerging trends: an increasingly mobile workforce, seeking the flexibility to work anywhere and anytime and a heterogeneous computing environment with the proliferation of a wide variety of devices and operating systems.
Servers from Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM and others are now incorporating Nvidia Grid into their desktop virtualization solutions. Combined with enterprise virtualization software from Citrix, Microsoft or VMware, these solutions can deliver GPU- accelerated applications and desktops to engineers, designers, architects, product design teams and special effects artists throughout India.
Nvidia Grid technology enables employees to use their own notebooks and portable devices to access all their office productivity and design applications virtually – just as they would at their desks, as long as they are connected via the internet.
Prior to Nvidia Grid, desktop virtualization technologies were limited by performance and compactibility constraints that severly compromised applications for building information managment, product-lifecyle management and video-photo editing. Even the user experience of Microsoft Window was limited.
In this context, it has been Nvidia’s endeavor to equip today’s mobile workforce with better access to information and apps that typically reside in central data-centres, while bettering performance. “Instead of moving data into the hands of today’s mobile workforce, NVIDIA has brought computing to the data centres,” Jen-Hsun Huang said, today, announcing the availability of Nvidia Grid.
Jen-Hsun Huang also acknowledged that it had taken an entire industry to perfect and deliver this technology into the hands of Indian enterprises. And, befitting the occasion, Nvidia’s ecosystem partners including Adobe, Autodesk, HP, Dell, Citrix and VMware were part of the conference, as various applications running on a virtual desktop were demonstrated.