The downside of this is of course the initial purchase of those all those extra thin clients. An option, of course, would be to replace those client PC’s with devices likes thin clients. For a reasonable amount of those users, a fully blown desktop OS locally is not a requirement anymore. With the desktop being hosted in the datacenter the next useful step is taking a look at the devices that end-users use to connect to the central environment. “…Some analysts predict that Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) may become a 1.7B market in 2014, with around 16M seats of VDI deployed at enterprises…” A statement from Microsoft taken from the WinTPC whitepaper: Many organizations are exploring and implementing the possibilities of centrally storing their desktops and are using Microsoft techniques like VDI or Session Virtualization (Remote Desktop Services). Desktop Virtualization is becoming (if not already) more and more proven technology.
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