Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises ‘IT utopia’ by eliminating one of the biggest operational costs in the enterprise, supporting end-user desktops. But to reach this nirvana two major requirements need to be met. First, the cost per virtual desktop has…
VDI makes sense, at least from IT’s perspective. It can provide some cost savings in hardware and software, can improve operational efficiency and deliver better control over the company’s data. For these reasons the IT manager and the CIO love…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises to reduce IT operational costs, improve endpoint data protection and increase endpoint usability. But for a VDI deployment to be successful, it must provide the user an experience that is better than the physical desktop…
How do you make the VDI experience better? That’s the subject of a webinar available right now On-Demand on storageswiss.com with Rawley Burbridge from IBM and Seth Knox from Atlantis Computing. George Crump from Storage Switzerland led the webinar. The…
VDI can be one of the toughest projects an IT organization has to implement, due in a large part to the expectations of the groups involved. Replacing PCs with virtual desktops creates expectations with users that have to get their…
When IT planners are asked to list their top challenges with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) they often come up with a variety of answers, like gaining user acceptance, delivering an experience similar to that of a stand-alone desktop or driving…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) promises ‘IT utopia’ by eliminating one of the biggest operational costs in the enterprise, supporting end-user desktops. But to reach this nirvana two major requirements need to be met. First, the cost per virtual desktop has…
The news a couple of weeks ago that IBM had sold its server business to Lenovo set off a flurry of speculation about what IBM would do with the rest of its hardware offerings. While no one outside of IBM…
Texas Memory Systems was a personal favorite of mine so I had concerns when IBM acquired them in August of 2012. With cautious optimism, I’ve been watching IBM to see what they did with their savvy investment. The first step…
At Storage Switzerland we have been covering the move to memory channel storage for the last six months. It is the next logical upgrade from drive-attached and PCIe-attached flash storage. By putting the flash directly on the memory bus traditional…
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