New Blog: Easing the Pain of Creating Anywhere (EdgeVDI)
The Covid-19 pandemic forced most members of the university community to work from their homes and other locations with highly variable last-mile connectivity. Since access to campus was limited, they also became more dependent on Virtual Andrew to perform their academic and administrative work. The change from on-campus LAN-access to off-campus WAN access exposed limitations of VDI as a remote service. These limitations led to a three-way collaboration between VMware, the CMU Living Edge Lab, and CMU Computing Service to investigate how Edge Computing could enable a better VDI experience. This blog introduces our recently published technical report, Deploying Edge-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, details this collaboration (so far).