By: Tom Rose

Tom Rose — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:18:33 +0000

Great post. Not only can single image management make VDI more cost-effective operationally, but sharing of single images (e.g. Windows, Office, Firefox) can significantly reduce the costs of storage to make VDI more affordable. If you have the ability to dynamically composite personal desktops from these single images and deliver them through existing connection brokers, VDI becomes more appealing to organizations who want to extend virtual desktops to knowledge workers. Granted, the off-line use case still needs to be addressed, but the new Type 1 client hypervisors will make it possible for a new genre of CLI tools to provide unified management of both VDI and virtualized PCs and notebooks. Pano Logic's zero client platform and Unidesk's just-released virtual desktop management platform are examples of products seeing strong customer acceptance for VDI environments that are based on VMware vSphere (often being deployed together). On the client side, MokaFive and Wanova are innovative products that, like Unidesk, use "layering" technology to create many desktops from single images.

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