Harmonic Spectrum Media Studio vs. OCI Virtual Desktop

For large and mid-sized organizations utilizing massive virtual desktop deployments, Oracle VDI offers great value. It supports a wide range of operating systems like Linux, Solaris, Windows etc.

Incentivized

• Ease of Manageability. Accessing and managing multiple virtualized desktop environments is pretty straightforward.
• Great Options for Keeping Track of Logins. Detailed reports of who has been logging into which environment are easy to configure.
• File Systems Can Be Shared. You can set multiple desktop environments to be able to share data on the same file system.

Incentivized

• In our use of Oracle VDI, we have found there is a significant lag time when using the desktop environments through it, rather than the standalone virtual desktops.
• Real time reporting and statistics can be improved as well.

Incentivized

From the end user's perspective the usability is not impacted at all.

Incentivized

The easiest way to describe the performance is like this - when it is working, it works almost flawlessly. When it starts freezing, your day is going to get very interesting very quickly. As I have stated earlier, I used it for one purpose, and it did what I needed it to most of the time, but I did have issues with it.

Incentivized

VMware Horizon does everything that Oracle VDI is capable of doing and offers many more features, and unlike Oracle VDI, it is still receiving constant updates. Oracle VDI was a great solution for enterprise-level management of virtualized desktop when it was getting updates, but now that it won't be getting any, I would put it in the "outdated technology" category.

Incentivized

• When I used it full-time it worked for what I needed it - positive.
• When it crashed, it costed me in time to wait to get it back up - negative.
• Took up less space than using live machines - positive.

Incentivized