Individual users in the Radiology group want to install a variety of third-party tools to analyze the images they use. They also need to be able to analyze a centrally stored image database that they

Hosted shared environments do not allow individual users to install applications freely, as changes would affect all users sharing the same server instance.

Hosted VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) provides each user with a dedicated virtual machine, giving them full administrative control over their desktop environment to install custom third-party tools and maintain their specific configurations, while still being able to access remote resources from the datacenter.

Streamed VHD is a method for delivering virtual disks, not a FlexCast model that defines the user's ability to install applications on a dedicated desktop.

Local VM implies a VM running on the user's client device, which may not align with the requirement to access a centrally stored database remotely within a managed datacenter solution.