a fresh look at the virtual desktop landscape with the 451 group
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Desktop virtualization:A fresh lookRachel ChalmersThe 451 Group
Agenda
The story so farNotes from the fieldThe state of the artThe future of work
The story so far
A long, long time ago
A long, long time ago
Citrix invents terminal servicesVMware invents x86 virtualizationXenSource does it in open sourceVMware introduces VDICitrix buys XenSourceIT’S ON
Persistent virtual desktops
Call my broker!
Now virtualize my apps!
…but I still want this image as my desktop wallpaper
Here’s what I’d really like
Server virtualizationA connection brokerUser AND application virtualizationA nice, fast graphics protocolMaybe some storage I/O optimizationCan I have that hosted, please?And how about a client hypervisor?
…and a pony?
Notes from the field
Survey results
Users by sizeUsers by industryUsers by budgetBusiness driversVendorsSurvey monkey, April-August 2010, n=40
Users by size
0 5 10 15 20
Fewer than 50employees
50-500employees
500-5,000employees
More than 5,000employees
Users by industry
0 2 4 6 8 10
Energy
Research
Wholesale distribution
Retail
Financial services
Manufacturing
Government
Healthcare
Technology
Education
Users by budget
0 2 4 6 8 10
No budget
No new budget; must repurposePC refresh or other budgets
Less than $10,000
$10,000-100,000
$100,000-1m
Greater than $1m
Business drivers
Vendors
Case studies
Cox CommunicationsCredit Counselling SocietyMorgan StanleySevern Trent WaterUniversity of North Texas at Dallas
Cox Communications
IT operations manager Dan Powers1,200 enterprise end usersMix of PCs, laptops and Wyse thin clientsDell PowerEdge R900 servers, Dell/EMC FC storage arrays (iSCSI to come?)VMware View, AppSense Environment Manager
Credit Counselling Society
Director of IT Ovidiu Mot5 HP ProLiant hosts running VMware ESXiGigabit Ethernet SANsKaviza VDIHP thin clientsCitrix Systems HDX
Morgan Stanley
Windows engineering within Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) team100 desktop virtualization users in productionDefault deployment model by YE 2010>7,000 PCs virtualized by YE 2010Entire 100,000 fleet – including 20,000 from Citigroup – virtualized by YE 2014
Severn Trent Water
CIO Myron HrycykSI ComputacenterCitrix XenApp and XenDesktopHP servers and storageVMware server virtualization5,500 users in second-stage rolloutHP thin clients, <10% laptops, iPads?
University of North Texas at Dallas
Network administrator Brian WalkerDoubling student populationBudget constraintsVMware vSphere for server virtualizationUnidesk virtual desktop managementPano Logic zero clients
The state of the art
The state of the art
What if you could combine user virtualization, application virtualization and storage optimization?
What if you could combine the desktop connection broker, the fast graphics protocol and the thin or zero client?
From this…
…to this
The future of work
The future of work
Big data and the information delugeKnowledge work looks more and more like analyticsMapReduce, Hadoop and parallel processingPlatform as a service: everyone her own programmerRoam if you want to (and compete globally)Smartphone as the remote control for the cloud
Analyzing the business of Enterprise IT Innovation
Unique Analysis of the Hosting, Managed Service, Third-Party Datacenter and Internet Infrastructure sectors
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