Virtual Linux Desktops, Real Security

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"Because information is classified according to security level - and can only be accessed by networked devices cleared for each security level - the department had to give many users two, three, or more individual desktop PCs of varying security levels.

"The result was an administrative and productivity nightmare that not only ate up desk space for paperwork and family happy snaps, but kept users jumping between PCs depending on the task at hand."

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