What's Best for Remote Workers: VDI or VPN?

VPN serves to create a secure tunnel between an endpoint device and the company network allowing secure remote access to company network from an internet location. When granting VPN access, administrators need to carefully allow access permissions to required systems, allowing users only to access designated systems.

VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) generally transmit virtualized hosted desktop environments and/or business applications. VDI is device-agnostic and it doesn’t rely on the end-user hardware. If required, own dedicated Windows-based system can be provided to each user so that they can be customized. Each machine can be configurued to work independently of the others.

With VPN, the processing is done on the client machine whereas VDI processing is  done at the server side. Further VDI can be configured to restrict data from leaving the corporate network. However with VPN, data can still be moved to client devices unless extra  measures have not been configured to prevent such attempts.

Both VPN and VDI are used for gaining secure remote access. Even though VPN is  more suitable for smaller businesses as it is cost-effective, easy to implement, and simple to use, Companies with the increased number of work from home users consider  VDI as more effective in enabling WFH arrangements.