The US Army Medical Command has reduced the time it takes to log in to a virtual desktop to about 30 seconds, according to a report at ComputerWeekly.com. Logins had taken about three to five minutes in MEDCOM's 11,000-user virtual desktop infrastructure.

Read the full report at ComputerWeekly.com.

The MEDCOM project included six hospitals on two continents.

Thomas Sasala, CTO of the Army's IT Agency, will provide an update on DoD's virtualization efforts in a special free webcast on March 10. Click here for more.

MEDCOM made the improvement with flash caching software, according to the article.

The Army has been virtualizing desktops aggressively. Thomas Sasala, CTO of the Army's IT Agency, told C4ISRNet in December that 18,000 of the Pentagon's more than 50,000 desktop computers had been virtualized.

"From a desktop perspective, we think it is a game-changer for us," Sasala said at the time. "There are really two fundamental reasons for that, which revolve around patch management, as well as the larger management-monitoring-maintenance perspective."

Thomas Sasala, CTO of the Army's IT Agency, will provide an update on DoD's virtualization efforts in a special free webcast on March 10. Click here for more.

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