Huh? No, you don’t install VMware on anything. The VM is managed by MS Azure or AWS GovCloud on an IL5-secure server (actually, lots of these servers, that already exist around the country). You can use any machine to get into this environment. Imagine it like you are only bringing the monitor, mouse, and keyboard with
really long cords, and all your processing and data happems hundreds of miles away, on any one of thousands of machines. And these machines are redundant and invisible to you, so if one breaks you automatically get a free new one. If you want to see for yourself,
AWS commercial cloud actually offers a free account for you to play around with.
This would be completely solved. Everything would be faster. Everything would be easier to keep up to date and uncluttered. And, you can actually give Navy users a variety of desktop options when they log in, so they can choose the desktop they need for that moment. For example:
- Linux, 4gb, dual-core 2ghz, w/ a variety of up to date browers for general browsing, NSIPS, BOL, Navy webmail, etc.
- Win10, 8gb, quad-core 3ghz, w/ MS Office installed for doing Word, Excel, Powerpoint
- something higher end with specific model & sim software or other special software
- etc