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PALO ALTO, CA, Jun 09, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — VMware, Inc. (VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that healthcare providers are using VMware View(TM) to furnish medical staff with reliable access to their desktops, applications and information as they roam from room to room and floor to floor within hospitals to care for patients. Healthcare organizations including Norton Healthcare, St. Vincent’s Catholic Hospital and Riverside HealthCare are using VMware View to help deliver cost-effective, flexible, highly available IT services, ultimately improving patient care. Healthcare provider “follow me” desktops from VMware deliver the medical information they need to care for patients, while giving IT staff the ability to easily provision, secure and manage desktops and applications from the datacenter.

VMware View lets businesses run virtual desktops in the datacenter which are then accessed using thick or thin clients. End users see a familiar desktop environment with all their productivity and clinical applications available in a single view. In healthcare environments, where minutes or seconds can make a difference in patient care, it is crucial for staff to be able to quickly and reliably access medical information. VMware View enables healthcare organizations to host virtual desktops on servers in a central location, protecting valuable medical information, while providing secure, mobile desktop environments for medical staff as they care for patients throughout a hospital. Administrators also benefit from being able to manage, provision and update desktops from a central location saving valuable time and resources.

Desktop virtualization is going to be the next big thing and already is for many businesses. Crucially with health care and other sectors where we need to access and update data remotely, being able to stream down the desktop, to abstract that operational activity from a local laptop or desktop with a local disk, can be a tremendously freeing activity for the end user and IT operationally and in terms of data protection. If I can have a thin client which connects to my desktop when I need the information, to have everything stored centrally and securely, I can prevent those data loss issues, and improve IT’s ability to perform, the traditional barriers to getting a desktop might not be the best part of a day or two, I might just configure a new thin client to connect to desktop 7 which is then duplicated and mounted for use. An interesting read, do check it out.

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