We performed a comparison between Cisco VXI and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, Citrix and others in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)."The initial setup of Cisco VXI is straightforward."
"The solution is now stable."
"The most valuable feature is the remote application access."
"In terms of the valuable features, I like the profile, the new version is really good."
"The most valuable part of RDS is that it allows you to work from any location and check the server through a VPN connection."
"I've had good experiences with Microsoft customer support."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is the ability to remote into a system that is not on-premises."
"It is a stable product."
"It's largely stable."
"When using Cisco VXI in virtual environments there tends to be a lot of bugs with files you have to deploy across the virtual environment. You configure for hours, and then there is a bug that stops you, and you notice that you wasted hours."
"The product is not very scalable."
"We encounter challenges with portability, especially for users of iOS devices."
"In the next release, I would like to see better performance over slower networks, and integration with Linux, but this is something that we're going to get out of Microsoft in terms of a unified solution."
"The solution should have better security."
"The performance of Remote Desktop Services could be better."
"The price is too high."
"My customers are worried that the RDP protocol can be easily compromised and would like the option to use an alternative like Blast."
"Microsoft Remote Desktop Services needs to improve its security."
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Cisco VXI is ranked 14th in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is ranked 1st in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with 69 reviews. Cisco VXI is rated 7.0, while Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco VXI writes "Straightforward implementation, scalable, but performance could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services writes "Easy to set up and reliable, but needs an additional control panel". Cisco VXI is most compared with VMware Horizon View and Userful, whereas Microsoft Remote Desktop Services is most compared with TeamViewer, VMware Horizon, VMware Workstation, Citrix Workspace and Parallels Access.
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