MINICASE STUDY Create Manage RDSH Farms in Azure

MINI-CASE STUDY Create, Manage RDSH Farms in Azure to Offer Any Windows App as a Service from Anywhere “Our partnership with Microsoft has opened up new markets for our management software. We can now meet the needs of customers who want to deploy Microsoft VDI on-premises with Hyper-V or publish Windows apps from RDSH farms in Azure. ” – Don Bulens, CEO, Unidesk § SITUATION MICROSOFT AZURE ISV: Unidesk Corporation WEB SITE: www. unidesk. com LOCATION: Boston, MA, USA ORG SIZE: 110 MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE: Unidesk brings simplicity to cloud management of Windows desktops. More than 1, 100 enterprises use Unidesk to make on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and terminal servers more flexible for users and easier to manage for IT. Unidesk layering innovation makes it easy to create and manage scalable Remote Desktop Session Host farms. Read about other Microsoft Azure ISVs Providing remote access to Windows applications is on everyone’s shortlist to enhance employee productivity. But supporting bring your own device and offering 24/7 access to apps can be costly and complex for IT. Hard-to-use app packaging tools and image sprawl have made creating and updating multi-user remote desktop session hosts (RDSH) time-consuming and resource-intensive. § SOLUTION Microsoft Azure allows Unidesk to offer a complete provisioning, application delivery, and image management solution that makes it easy to publish any Windows app. Remote desktop session host farms can be built in the Azure cloud from the same reusable Windows Server and application “layer” building blocks that only need to be patched or updated once. IT workloads remain the same even as more remote desktop session host virtual machines are created. § BENEFITS Microsoft Azure enables organizations to offer users remote access to Windows applications anywhere at any time. Using Azure makes application and image management highly efficient for IT departments.