VDI, as a Enterprise Technology ,is one of the key growth areas I'm seeing.
Just catching up on some Industry News this evening...and not sure about all the readers here, but there is No Escape from the acronym VDI, i.e, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, in today's market space.
Big players are coming to the table folks and we are truly about to see a INFRASTRUCTURE REVOLUTION where I feel the non-virtualised infrastructure will be a thing of the past, both SME and Enterprise.
So who's got a place at the table?
The First 3rd Pary Connection Brokers:
First up, we've got Citrix's Desktop Broker. Read more here: Citrix Systems
(NOTE: I don't personally see VDI as a rival to Citrix and TS multi-user shared server environments, but rather an opportunity for Citrix to expand its already feature-rich "application delivery" architecture into VDI giving each user a virtual PC (a virtual session), and guess what, Citrix are already there with their Dynamic Desktop Delivery Solution "Desktop Broker for Presentation Server"...go Citrix...I know, I am slightly biased, but hey, I love the product offerings and the multitude of capabilities incumbent in the Access Suite range...so I gotta give a plug there.)
Then Zeus with their ZXTM VDB providing the middleware to link users at login with virtual Windows PCs running atop VMware's ESX Server or Microsoft Virtual Server.And now VMware have just announced a complete ESX integration with Propero’s workSpace virtualization platform.
And the open source player, XenSource.
So what is the DB service?
Essentially a Desktop Broker service is the key ingredient of the VDI end-to-end solution.
The ideas behind VDI:
1. centralization
2. access control
3. IP retention
all appeal to businesses.
All I can say is: get ready for the INFRASTRUCTURE REVOLUTION.
More VDI Players:
- ChipPC Virtual Desktop Center
- Dunes Virtual Desktop Orchestrator (VD-O) and Virtual Service Orchestrator (VS-O)
- LeoStream Virtual Desktop Connection Broker
- Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite (VAS)
Learn more about VDI here: msterminalservices.org and here: The best way to deliver Windows Desktops