In a regulated environments like health care, data theft such as patient related can be a costly ordeal. Disk encryption helps to safeguard the data when it reaches wrong hands.
In Windows environment, bitlocker enables full volume encryption. When coupled with TPM, it's almost ensured that the data will be accessible on the same hardware.
Software Applications in regulated domains such as health care use customised OS based on an embedded OS.
Such application software installations are time consuming and older releases require CDs subjected to wear and tear.
A Virtual Hard Disk or VHD is a flat file on the host PC that can be mounted as a Hard disk on the system. Further a VHD can be made bootable by adding an entry to the boot menu.
Desktop virtualization enables running different releases of the hospital software even with different OS without installation.
Installing Hospital software uses various types of media such as CD/DVD or USB. This is mainly because of deployment of custom Operating system. These type of installations cannot be automated because of need of manual operations such as boot options, bios password etc.
A bootable Virtual Hard Disk( VHD) provides a perfect solution.
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