(Source: 3PAR) The advent of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) holds great promise in corporate, government, and service provider environments. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, such as VMware VDI, enables end users or their hosting providers to provision and manage hundreds of individual, virtual desktops from a set of centrally administered, consolidated servers. This approach delivers a number of potential benefits, including lower administrative and maintenance costs, higher levels of security, and increased user mobility and flexibility. 3PAR has introduced Thin Copy Desktop for VMware VDI, a storage solution designed for virtualized desktop infrastructures. This offering meets all the requirements for a VDI Optimized Storage solution, which we have outlined in this document. 3PAR Thin Copy Desktop significantly decreases physical disk space requirements for virtual desktop images and enables the rapid, simultaneous booting of hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines (VMs).