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A PDF (Portable Document Format) is indeed considered a digital product. It's a file format developed by Adobe that presents documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of software, hardware, and operating systems. Here's an in-depth exploration of why PDFs qualify as digital products: What Constitutes a Digital Product? Digital Nature: A digital product exists solely in digital or electronic form. PDFs meet this criterion as they are electronic files created, viewed, and shared using digital devices. Intangible Asset: They lack a physical form and are intangible assets stored on computers, servers, or other digital storage mediums. Ease of Distribution: PDFs are easily distributed through the internet, email, or other digital means. They can be downloaded, shared, and accessed worldwide within seconds. Functional Value: PDFs provide various functionalities like text search, hyperlinking, multimedia integration, and password protection, en...
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No longer just for servers: desktop virtualization and more

Our first article in our new article series on virtualization describes the evolution of this technology while highlighting the importance of hardware and availability.

We tend to think of virtualization as a solution to reduce IT dependency in growing data centers and server farms. It's true - virtualization can be an extremely effective way to increase flexibility and reduce overall costs. Though, this is not the only advantage that virtualization can provide. Companies today are increasingly turning to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to create customized desktop environments on virtualized servers running in the data center or the cloud. In this example, virtualization can reduce costs, improve performance and security, and help IT regain control of the entire enterprise.


Critical Components for a Successful Deployment

VDI provides connection brokers who act as guards, directing user requests to the right place in the virtual infrastructure to access their personal devices. The connection broker and other core VDI components are important parts of the overall virtualization strategy.

They are so important that any organization must have a robust availability solution as part of their virtual desktop infrastructure deployment. To understand why, consider the implications of failing host servers that support virtual desktops. Many (if not all) users will be affected and the business will inevitably stop. Failure is simply not an option.

Expect the unexpected

VDI is changing the way we think (and act) about hardware. In the past, companies had some business-critical applications that required highly available hardware. Then these companies decided to run "less important" software on shared servers.

However, in a virtualized world, these types of applications are becoming business critical. Why? Because they are assembled on these physical servers dedicated to multiple virtual machines. So now their loss will have a much greater impact on the business.

Worse, any downtime can impact virtualized environment management tools, preventing IT professionals from creating and managing virtualized machines — wasting valuable time, energy, and money. All of this demonstrates the correct availability strategy that properly aligns the overall infrastructure with the existing mix.

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