Comments on: Virtual Desktops Are Hot Again

By: What Comes After the Storage M&A Gold Rush : Cloud «

What Comes After the Storage M&A Gold Rush : Cloud « — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:01:52 +0000

[...] and incessant search for reduced costs has led to a VDI resurgence. We looked more closely at why Virtual Desktops Are Hot Again and see this area as a storage-centric deployment that will catch the attention of the tech giants [...]

By: Jon Deliz

Jon Deliz — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:21:04 +0000

I guess everything does come full circle, with going virtual gaining momentum…again. How many smb’s are really going to follow a public cloud model? My customers have mentioned they don’t like the idea of anybody holding their data completely. I like the hybrid models but are they cost effective?

By: How VMware Plans to Control the Cloud

How VMware Plans to Control the Cloud — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:02:20 +0000

[...] attempt to own more of the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) arena, an area we profiled in Virtual Desktops are Hot Again. Another piece of the end-user pie is ThinApp, a technology VMware acquired from ThinStall to help [...]

By: Vinay

Vinay — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:26:55 +0000

Having said which, does anyone know of the financial health of the companies mentioned here?. Many of them have been around for over 5 years - Atlantis, Panologic, Moka5, etc.

By: Vinay

Vinay — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:20:07 +0000

A new technology cannot replace the incumbent so easily, especially in a mature market, when the incumbent is getting better all the time (Read Alienware machines with Dual i7s).

In an emerging market, where PC (and broadband) penetration is still in the single digits, cloud computing offers an interesting option. A Virtual Desktop with local/ natural language interface and everything else residing on the cloud, would mean the availability of a new platform for important services. And would enable the creation of cheaper devices as well.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:16:41 +0000

Gary, you make some good points about VDI. However, Terminal Server is not going away so fast. The fact is that Terminal Server has advantages over VDI, while VDI also has advantages over Terminal Server. That’s why most organizations are best served by adopting a hybrid approach, with an optimal mix of Terminal Server (for task-oriented users), VDI (for power users), and Blade PCs (stock traders, graphic designers, etc.) which delivers the most benefit and platform flexibility to the organization.

Ericom Software’s PowerTerm WebConnect facilitates this hybrid approach by managing access to Terminal Server, VDI and Blade PCs, all with one management tool, one product.

Download a free white paper about this hybrid approach at:
http://www.ericom.com/hybrid_VDI_SBC.asp?URL_ID=708

Adam

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By: Kate deBethune

Kate deBethune — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:09:59 +0000

Securing data in a centrally-located data center is one of the fundamental use cases for hosted virtual desktops. This is one of the main motivations for early adopters of this technology, and many of these users are in industries where compliance and security demands are especially rigorous, e.g., financial services, healthcare, and government. In all of these sectors, there are real advantages to getting data off "the edges" of the network and providing policy-controlled access to desktops that are hosted centrally. While there is a range of endpoint devices that can be used, those used in a virtual desktop infrastructure can be quite stripped down, with little to no local memory or processing power required (e.g. thin clients). In addition to mitigating the dangers associated with storing data on the physical endpoint, this model provides the added benefits of longer device life (no moving parts) and fewer service calls at the desk-side (desktops are patched and maintained in the data center).

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:22:28 +0000

If I may contribute... I think definition is key in strategy, and 'protecting systems' is a little vague in light of the fact that we are seeing many large companies who would rather lose their employees' physical systems than their critical business data. And desktop virtualization isolates the 2 from each other where the data is not stored on a laptop's hard drive but rather on a remote server. A lost PC may cost them productivity, but lost data could put them out of business for good!

By: techoba

techoba — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:01:38 +0000

I wonder how systems can be made secure with virtual desktops?

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:02:39 +0000

Unless it exists already, can you imagine A Windows/Office Virtual Desktop as a service with you smartphone's data plan provided by your Phone Service Provider? "Gimme a green 'slider' with Win7 and Office Pro 2010 data plan, please!"

By: Videocon Mobiles

Videocon Mobiles — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:21:06 +0000

Nice article

By: Vivek Kumar

Vivek Kumar — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:44:37 +0000

Novatium has quietly been creating a wave in India with their computing as a service model. The company already has 5% of the home computing market and tie-ups with most of the large telcos for widespread reach.

Vivek