a fresh look at the virtual desktop landscape with the 451 group

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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