Which solution meets the criteria for reducing the general IT costs for the Research and Training user group to access their applications?

VM Hosted applications, if implying individual virtual desktops per user, are generally less cost-effective than shared server OS machines due to higher resource consumption and licensing.

Streamed server OS machines, often implemented using technologies like Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH), enable multiple users to share a single operating system instance. This model drastically reduces the number of underlying virtual machines, associated licensing, and management overhead required compared to individual dedicated desktops, leading to significant cost savings.

Dedicated desktop OS machines assign a full virtual machine to each user, which is the most expensive option due to significantly higher hardware, software, and management costs per user.