The Why of VDI

 

"If you don't know where you're going, you will wind up somewhere else."
- Yogi Berra

 

Virtualizing a data center is much more straight-forward than virtualizing desktops. The huge savings resulting from server consolidation are readily apparent. In addition to the overwhelming economic advantages, additional benefits abound including reduced staff time managing virtual machines, high availability, enhanced testing/patching/migrations, superior disaster recovery, and more effective green initiatives. Users are not impacted other than by faster performance and fewer or no downtime.

 

Virtualizing desktops entails significant technical challenges, an uncertain (and certainly much less apparent) ROI, and hundreds or thousands of users with differing expectations and perceptions. Without a very strategic plan for successful enterprise VDI deployment, virtual desktop initiatives are likely to stall at low levels of penetration.

 

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