How Virtualized Graphics Improve the Win 10 Education Experience

November 29, 2017

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has evolved significantly in recent years, achieving unprecedented levels of mobility, capability, versatility and security. VDI has also become very popular in educational environments. Educational institutions value VDI for the cost-savings potential, but also for the rich user experience that VDI enables for teachers and students.However, the applications and technological tools integral to modern-day learning environments are becoming more graphics intensive. As a result, performance problems stemming from the use of graphics-intensive applications have become increasingly commonplace in educational environments. The typical approach of rendering graphics through the CPU diverts the VDI from enabling the top performance of the tools and applications upon which schools have come to depend. CPUs were not designed to process visual representations of objects efficiently.

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