Comments on: Key questions for VDI http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/key-questions-for-vdi/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Richards http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/key-questions-for-vdi/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Steve Richards Sun, 03 May 2009 12:34:56 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/key-questions-for-vdi/#comment-932 It's almost a year since I made this post and I've learned a bit since then. The key additions being: 1. Whilst there are lots of alternatives presented in my post, one thing the physical desktop PC had going for it was it was one technology that met most needs. VDI is maturing into that one approach that meets most peoples needs with only limited compromise. 2. I still think the best route for enterprises is to build an infrastructure for OS streaming, App Streaming, Configuration Streaming and User Personalisation. This infrastructure can be used for VDI and Terminal Services today and for the next generation of physical desktops and client side virtual machines tomorrow 3. Take care to select vendors for this infrastructure that share your vision of one infrastructure to support many different desktop delivery technologies 4. When you deploy VDI, make sure you don't think of the Infrastructure as VDI specific 5. Don't rush into large scale change unless you need to, there's plenty of opportunity to deliver business value solving the hard problems of desktop and application delivery (branches, offshore, customers and suppliers) right now It’s almost a year since I made this post and I’ve learned a bit since then. The key additions being:

1. Whilst there are lots of alternatives presented in my post, one thing the physical desktop PC had going for it was it was one technology that met most needs. VDI is maturing into that one approach that meets most peoples needs with only limited compromise.
2. I still think the best route for enterprises is to build an infrastructure for OS streaming, App Streaming, Configuration Streaming and User Personalisation. This infrastructure can be used for VDI and Terminal Services today and for the next generation of physical desktops and client side virtual machines tomorrow
3. Take care to select vendors for this infrastructure that share your vision of one infrastructure to support many different desktop delivery technologies
4. When you deploy VDI, make sure you don’t think of the Infrastructure as VDI specific
5. Don’t rush into large scale change unless you need to, there’s plenty of opportunity to deliver business value solving the hard problems of desktop and application delivery (branches, offshore, customers and suppliers) right now

]]> By: Jason http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/key-questions-for-vdi/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Jason Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:42:30 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2008/06/10/key-questions-for-vdi/#comment-698 When it comes to improving Virtual Desktop Infrastructure performance, and offloading and removing servers from the edge a company called Expand Networks provides a unique combination of technologies to overcome many deployment challenges. http://www.expand.com/Products/Free-Evaluation.aspx When it comes to improving Virtual Desktop Infrastructure performance, and offloading and removing servers from the edge a company called Expand Networks provides a unique combination of technologies to overcome many deployment challenges.

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