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White Paper—Geographic Information Systems with Esri ArcGIS Pro on Dell Technologies VDI
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  • With the changing dynamics of the modern-day workforce, it has become challenging for IT teams to manage professional graphics platforms typically running on physical workstations.

    Traditionally, designers and engineers in the cartographic and mapping industry use high-end physical workstations. IT teams in these organizations find the deployment, upgrading, and maintenance of these workstations difficult and time-consuming. It is often challenging for IT to ensure interoperability among different components in a physical workstation with multiple ArcGIS software versions.

    Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with virtual workstations presents an opportunity to overcome many of the challenges involved in IT management and maintenance, collaboration, security, and flexibility. Virtualization enables IT teams to deploy and present multiple virtual workstations to a user’s endpoint device. The virtual workstations are in a data center that IT can manage and maintain centrally. Upgrading operating systems and applications as well as applying security patches is easier. Also, if an outage occurs, virtual workstations can be recovered more quickly than physical workstations.

    Virtualization is used in many industries and sectors such as oil and gas, utilities, and government agencies. Virtualized ArcGIS Pro instances are available in both on-premises and cloud-based offerings. ArcGIS Pro delivers exceptional user experience and provides the full range of functionality in virtualized environments using Dell Technologies PowerEdge servers and NVIDIA virtual GPU technology, wherever the user may be.

    ArcGIS use cases typically require visualization of complex datatypes, which includes complex vector data, aerial photography, and voxel and scene layers. Virtualized instances of ArcGIS Pro with VDI technologies provide users with a large range of tools to apply complex spatial and raster analytics on geographic datasets.

    As the volume and resolutions of spatial data continue to increase, so does the IT administrative burden. Dell Technologies PowerEdge servers or VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure combined with NVIDIA's vGPU technology provide a stable, robust ArcGIS Pro virtualization solution designed to meet the increasing needs of mobile users. Using this solution, IT departments can reduce costs and administration, increase provisioning times and security, and deliver high-quality GPU-enhanced user experiences.