Modern VDI
Without the legacy tax.
Six failure modes that anyone running enterprise VDI in the last decade will recognize. The pains aren't specific to one vendor — they're baked into the multi-tier appliance-and-broker model. Here's what we do instead.
Critical CVEs (8–10 severity) hit gateway appliances and storefront servers on what feels like a quarterly basis. Each one means out-of-band patching windows, mid-meeting outages, and a creeping sense that you're always one cycle behind.
What Canvex does differently
The control plane is one hosted service, patched continuously without operator action. The compute layer is short-lived containers and VMs, rebuilt from clean images on each provision. No 5-year-old NetScaler box at the edge of your perimeter waiting to ruin your weekend.
Multi-tier architecture sprawl
Brokers, gateways, profile managers, storefronts, license servers, monitoring agents, GPO endpoints — each one with its own upgrade cycle, its own failure mode, its own runbook. The integration map is half your team's working memory.
What Canvex does differently
One hosted control plane. Regional compute clusters speak directly to it over an encrypted mesh. Browser and RDP clients connect directly to the regional gateway nearest them. No middle tier to fail.
Endpoint agent management
Specialized clients to install on every employee laptop. Different versions across Windows / macOS / iOS / Android. Hours per device on imaging. A 0-day in the client means refreshing 5,000 endpoints inside 48 hours.
What Canvex does differently
Anything with a recent browser is a thin client. Same UX on a Chromebook, a corporate Mac, or a contractor's personal laptop. RDP clients still work for power users who want native — but we don't ship one, and there's nothing to push policies to.
Multi-year commits, escalating per-seat pricing, "core-pak" license bundles you have to buy to get the one feature you want. Renegotiate down to one year? "Commit to three years or go pound sand."
What Canvex does differently
Month-to-month platform fee. Daily compute meter on running workstations. Spending limits you set, alerts before you cross them. Cancel by closing the tab. No procurement review needed to grow or shrink.
Capacity planning means buying hardware for the 9am peak. That hardware is idle most of the day. Growing the deployment means a 6-month lead time and a new round of capex approvals.
What Canvex does differently
Container or VM per workstation, provisioned in a few minutes from a template. Auto-pause on idle so a 9-to-5 workstation bills like a 9-to-5 workstation — compute stops, the workstation's state stays. Add a new region by spinning up a new compute cluster.
The platform is a UI, not an API. Provisioning a new desktop for an onboarding hire is a ticket. Bulk-resizing the engineering org's GPU allocation for a sprint requires PowerShell wizardry against three different consoles.
What Canvex does differently
Every action in the UI is also a REST endpoint. Webhooks for workstation and billing events. Provisioning a 50-person class for a workshop is a for-loop, not a ticket. Same surface for the dashboard and for your Terraform.
Your first workstation, in five minutes.
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