Abstract: The current document is directed to methods and subsystems that instantiate and manage mobile-network computational infrastructure. The currently disclosed improved mobile-network-computational-infrastructure orchestration system employs several layers of containerized-application orchestration and management systems. For increased efficiency and security, mobile-network-specific operators are added to the containerized-application orchestration layers in order to extend the functionalities of the containerized-application orchestration layers and move virtualization-layer dependencies from the mobile-network-computational-infrastructure orchestration system down into the containerized-application orchestration layers.

Abstract: A system is described allowing a virtual desktop to be booted directly from a desktop image stored in a backup database without requiring content from the desktop image to be copied into the virtual disk of the virtual machine hosting the virtual desktop. The hosting virtual machine contains a synthetic virtual disk acting as a stub disk by redirecting read requests targeted for the synthetic disk from the guest operating system to corresponding locations of the storage where the desktop image is kept.