Design and Implementation of a Desktop Cloud System for Multinational Corporations Operating in the Yangtze River Delta Region
Wen Zeng, Wenxuan Wang, Yu Qi, Bofeng Zhang, Carlos Molina-Jiménez · 2024
We discuss a practical implementation and performance evaluation of a desktop cloud environment that enables international corporations to make their data available to their staff members transparently, regardless of the location of the data and the staff members. It has been implemented for the benefit of the European and American multinational retail companies that operate in the Yangtze River Delta region, these companies normally collect large amounts of sensitive data that demand protection. It is meant to be used as an alternative to off-the-shelf solutions that companies cannot import due to restrictions that the Chinese government has currently in force. As such, it must comply with both local and international regulations imposed by the government. Notably, it is expected to comply with the data security and data protection regulations imposed by the Chinese government and at the same time with international regulations such as the GDPR followed by European countries. Our implementation takes advantage of the functions (e.g., deployment of virtual applications, desktop control management, and secure network access) provided by Citrix — a technology that we have selected after evaluating it against other well-known virtualization technologies. We have divided the implementation and discussion of our system into two parts: network virtualization and virtual architecture. In the end, Login VSI is used to test the performance of our system.