All Things Virtualization 
There is plenty of marketing speak about the cloud, but when you hang around the offices of the CIO and IT operations, you will find plenty of finger pointing. Who owns what? How the concept of a cloud construct will be embraced? The conversations we have with technology leaders share these common steps:
Develop a special [...]
Fujitsu’s recent win of 140,000 desktop devices in the UK proves again that with desktop virtualization:
Partnering is key to success
Desktop virtualization is business driven, not technology driven like server virtualization
VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) is not the only solution and, in fact, may likely end up only being deployed for corner use cases. Notice that VDI [...]
ESG’s 2010 IT spending intentions data shows that increased use of server virtualization is at the top of the IT priority list. Drilling into the data further indicates that further consolidation and expansion of the number of application running on virtual machines is where IT will be focused this year. A critical part of this [...]
For those of you who think that the storage and I/O paths in a virtualized environment have already been solved by VMware, think again. VMware created VMFS as a necessity in its ESX environment to be able to share a common disk pool, enable the mobility of virtual machines between physical servers, and balance the [...]
I just read Harry Labana’s blog VDI alone is not Desktop Virtualization, WAKE UP! Harry is currently VP and CTO, XenApp Product group and has plenty of real world experience to lean on.
VDI may be the right fit for certain scenarios, but successful desktop virtualization implementations view VDI as one of many deployment models.
There are [...]
Is there a correlation between desktop virtualization and Windows 7 upgrades? There sure is, but it may not produce the results Microsoft is looking for.
OS upgrades are cumbersome and costly. In most cases, Windows 7 upgrades from XP require a clean install. So what drives companies to perform operating system upgrades on the endpoint?
Hardware refresh [...]
When it comes to desktop virtualization, ESG data consistently indicates lot of interest but not nearly as much implementation activity. In general this is true with one notable industry exception: health care.
Why is desktop virtualization penetrating the health care industry?
Mobility of workforce
Security requirements driven by regulations
Simplified access to multiple systems without being tethered to a [...]
I first saw F5 demonstrate long distance VMotion at VMworld 2009. A couple years ago, you were considered the cool kid on the block if you threw out the term ‘VMotion.’ Today it has become part of our everyday language and IT administrators consider it one of the best features of server virtualization. Now F5 [...]
Is desktop virtualization part of your plans for 2010? It should be: 18% of IT decision makers we recently surveyed consider it to be a top priority for 2010. You can see further details, trends, and analysis in my brief, 2010 Desktop Virtualization Trends. There are plenty of gaps in solution and technology maturity, market [...]
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