The excitement around virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is being tempered
by the concern that VDI can't be cost-justified if it doesn't completely
transform traditional desktop management - and by the belief that the only
way to achieve this is with stateless desktops. The bad news is that truly
stateless desktops won't be commonly available for at least another five
years. But there is good news and that is, contrary to conventional wisdom,
deploying virtual desktops and achieving state separation in client operating
environments are not one and the same. In fact, although they will likely
cross paths, they are fundamentally different objectives and should be viewed
as separate endeavors. The reality is that enterprises can benefit from VDI
today without capital inv... (more)
Jeff Fisher's "Desktops as a Service" Blog
Generally speaking, DaaS is about transforming desktops into a cloud service.
However, there are already a number of different approaches to DaaS and they
vary considerably. To start, I thought it would be helpful to classify the
different versions of DaaS as they exist today.
Cloud computing has reached an absolute frenzy in the IT media. It seems... (more)
It's August 2007. VMware goes public and virtualization, in all its forms,
reigns as the leading IT infrastructure megatrend. Fast forward to the summer
of 2008 and virtualization is already giving way to the new king of IT media
- cloud computing. All of a sudden, the conversations about how
virtualization will transform existing enterprise infrastructure shift to
talk about how virtual... (more)
Those of you who track Desktone and this blog know that lately we've been
spending more time talking about cloud-hosted desktops. This is obviously due
in part to the incredible dialogue that's surrounded cloud computing over the
past year. However, it's also because we believe that cloud-hosted desktops
can and will fundamentally change enterprise IT's willingness and ability to
leverag... (more)
This post has been a long time coming. It’s basically one of the core
philosophies we live by at Desktone and it happens to run contrary to
everything else you’ve read about virtual desktops and state separation. At
the core of the argument is the premise that deploying virtual desktops and
achieving state separation in client operating environments are two
fundamentally different object... (more)