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Create agile, efficient workplaces with virtualization services

DXC Virtual Desktop and Applications Services


Improve employee experiences, streamline IT management, reduce costs and increase workplace efficiency

DXC Virtual Desktop and Applications (VDA) Services give employees a better way to work. They can access their desktops and applications securely from anywhere, using any device, for a consistent, agile and more seamless user experience. Deploying our virtualization services for desktops and applications also delivers value to IT by centralizing device, applications and security management, decreasing management complexity and reducing hardware costs. When you choose DXC to design and build your virtual desktop and application (VDA) infrastructure and systems, you will gain the benefits of a flexible solution tailored to your requirements, whether deploying our virtualization services on-premises or in the cloud. 


What's included

hybrid work model

Advisory services

Explore opportunities to optimize investments and assess applicability to your needs.
cloud consulting

Cloud choice

Discover expertly architected hybrid cloud options.
VDA

Bundled design, implementation and management

Select services that span the VDA lifecycle.
device management

Access using any device

These include Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, HTML5 browsers and thin-client devices.

Features

 

Fluidly scale the workforce with automated user onboarding and expertly designed VDA infrastructure. 

DXC can deliver server-based applications and virtualized desktop operating systems from the cloud. DXC virtualization services offer end-to-end encryption, on-device service from secure data centers, centralized data storage, multi-factor authentication and regular security updates.

Manage all endpoint devices and software centrally and simplify IT protection and maintenance. Use aggregation features to combine all applications, SaaS and data into one view.

Automatically right-size the environment for current user volume with intelligent provisioning/de-provisioning to optimize costs while providing superior performance and a seamless user experience to employees.

DXC offers competitive pricing thanks to our global scale and purchasing power with Dell, HP, Citrix and Omnissa, with the option to scale up or down as needed. You can reduce hardware and maintenance costs by purchasing only the resources you need and avoid overprovisioning or underutilizing your infrastructure.

Employees can connect to their work environments from home or while traveling from almost any device. They can securely access their desktop, applications, files and more. 


1 million
users under management
110K+
virtual applications managed
30%-50%
Virtual desktop infrastructure as a service (VDIaaS) cost savings

Who can benefit

Consider DXC Virtual Desktop and Applications Services for your business if:

  • You are a global enterprise with a large workforce and complex IT infrastructure across hybrid and remote environments, and must fulfill requirements for flexible, scalable, secure and cost-effective computing. DXC helped a manufacturing company implement a digital workplace in which VDA was a major contributor to cutting its annual IT budget in half.   
  • You are working in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare and government that have strict compliance requirements, where data security and privacy enabled by desktop and application virtualization services are critical for avoiding violations and possible fines, or loss of customer trust. With DXC virtualization services, for example, a European bank became the financial industry’s first “PC-free” bank to improve data security and secure access to key corporate applications.
  • You need to manage the challenges of IT for mergers and acquisitions. Using virtualization services, DXC helped a healthcare corporation split from its parent company ​ahead of schedule, effectively ​reducing its tax rate ​from 26% to 23%.
  • You want to promote sustainability by reducing high-volume PC turnover, and the corresponding carbon emissions that result from manufacturing and shipping new devices.
  • You are an IT leader in an educational institution, and have to provide students and faculty with cost-efficient access to educational resources and software from any location.


Why DXC


Leading businesses choose DXC for our global partner ecosystem, ability to lower customers' costs and improve their productivity with flexible services, and relentless focus on delivering value fast. Here's what you can expect when you work with us:

Flexible infrastructure 

DXC provides VDA services that will align with your cloud strategy to create and manage multiple workplaces.

Optimized costs

DXC enables the efficient sharing of IT resources so you pay only for the resources you use. We extend device lifecycles to reduce hardware investments.

Improved productivity 

DXC ensures a high level of workforce productivity with streamlined IT support by providing users a consistent experience across devices.


DXC Technology is recognized by Gartner® as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Outsourced Digital Workplace Services 

 



Partnerships


DXC delivers Virtual Desktop and Applications Services alongside leading partners and key collaborators:

Anticipate and respond to change effortlessly with industry-leading workplace, IT and business modernization solutions.
Redefine the workplace using best-of-breed technology to engage and inspire your people.
Modernize and achieve tangible cloud and modern workplace business results with DXC and Microsoft.
Transform from data center to cloud-to-edge with DXC and VMware by Broadcom.
Connect, collaborate and innovate anytime, anywhere on any device with modern workplace solutions.
Employees seamlessly shift to remote working with a virtual desktop environment

 

DXC implemented a fully managed solution to virtualize desktops and applications for a United Kingdom-based defense subsidiary company, and enabled seamless access to core business applications across corporate and personal devices.  



Commonly asked questions about Virtual Desktop and Applications Services

Our virtual desktop solution is highly scalable, enabling organizations to effortlessly add or reduce resources based on demand. This scalability allows for efficient use of IT resources, optimizing costs through a pay-as-you-go model. Organizations pay only for the resources they use, promoting cost-effectiveness and resource efficiency.

DXC takes a vendor-independent approach, supporting your choice of hardware to ensure that you're not locked into a single vendor. We quickly deploy your thin clients with minimal disruption and configuration. Robust security will be at the core of your thin-client computing environment, including BYOD endpoints. We ensure that your sensitive information will be safe, your IT policies will be adhered to, and your compliance requirements met. We do it all while providing a flexible user experience for your employees.  

Companies tend to hesitate to adopt VDA because of cost and complexity. DXC makes it affordable and simple by managing your investments in infrastructure, including minimizing cloud consumption. We have decades of experience in helping customers leverage the technology, and certified and dedicated VDI engineers. DXC is Citrix' largest partner, as well as one of the top two VDI vendors in the world — so you can be assured of best-in-class design and performance in a low-cost, user-friendly environment.      

DXC supports all key facets of the virtual desktop sustainability model:   

  • Users access centralized servers from thin clients that are lightweight and consume less power than traditional desktop computers. These servers can handle the compute-intensive tasks of many virtual desktops, leading to more efficient use of computing resources.
  • Centralized servers in modern data centers use advanced cooling and energy management technologies that are more efficient than the cooling systems required for individual desktop computers.  
  • Following traditional 3- to 4-year PC refresh cycles ups the number of PCs that companies purchase in relatively short time frames. In a virtual desktop infrastructure, device life is significantly extended, which helps to minimize the carbon footprint produced by manufacturing and shipping new PCs. Also, extending device life minimizes e-waste.