Cloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a service that provides the ability to access Windows and Linux desktops hosted in the cloud from nearly any endpoint device and from any location. Cloud VDI is referred to as Desktop as a Service (DaaS) by many vendors although it represents a range of different architectures and capabilities. While vendors' implementations differ, in a Cloud VDI solution some or all components of a VDI architecture are hosted in the cloud. This gives your organization the ability to easily scale up and down an environment, reduce the administrative overhead and create a global platform with virtual desktops closer to the end users.