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Scott Alan Miller
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Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.
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Terminal servers and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

Unlike the Windows world, remote GUI access in the world of Linux based operating systems is relatively rare. This is just not part of the Linux wheelhouse in a self-fulfilling situation where customers do not demand it, so vendors do not specialize around it, leaving customers feeling that little is available for it and the cycle continues. But that is not to say that both terminal services and VDI (which stands for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure but is more meaningful and known simply by its acronym) options cannot or do not exist for Linux based systems, they most certainly do.

Understanding terminal services and VDI conceptually

It is not uncommon for terminal servers and VDI architectures to become intertwined, this mostly has happened because of marketing departments trying to sell VDI where it does not apply and because overlapping technologies are often used. That VDI was presented as the hot, new technology as...

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Published in: Mar 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800568792

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Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.
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