A Fresh Look at the Virtual Desktop Landscape with The 451 Group

Desktop virtualization:
A fresh look
Rachel Chalmers
The 451 Group

Agenda
The story so far
Notes from the field
The state of the art
The future of work

A long, long time ago
Citrix invents terminal services
VMware invents x86 virtualization
XenSource does it in open source
VMware introduces VDI
Citrix buys XenSource
IT’S ON

…but I still want this image as my desktop wallpaper

Here’s what I’d really like
Server virtualization
A connection broker
User AND application virtualization
A nice, fast graphics protocol
Maybe some storage I/O optimization
Can I have that hosted, please?
And how about a client hypervisor?
…and a pony?

Survey results
Users by size
Users by industry
Users by budget
Business drivers
Vendors
Survey monkey, April-August 2010, n=40

Users by size
0 5 10 15 20
Fewer than 50
employees
50-500
employees
500-5,000
employees
More than 5,000
employees

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 repurpose
PC refresh or other budgets
Less than $10,000
$10,000-100,000
$100,000-1m
Greater than $1m

Case studies
Cox Communications
Credit Counselling Society
Morgan Stanley
Severn Trent Water
University of North Texas at Dallas

Cox Communications
IT operations manager Dan Powers
1,200 enterprise end users
Mix of PCs, laptops and Wyse thin clients
Dell PowerEdge R900 servers, Dell/EMC FC storage arrays (iSCSI to
come?)
VMware View, AppSense Environment Manager

Credit Counselling Society
Director of IT Ovidiu Mot
5 HP ProLiant hosts running VMware ESXi
Gigabit Ethernet SANs
Kaviza VDI
HP thin clients
Citrix Systems HDX

Morgan Stanley
Windows engineering within Enterprise Infrastructure (EI) team
100 desktop virtualization users in production
Default deployment model by YE 2010
>7,000 PCs virtualized by YE 2010
Entire 100,000 fleet – including 20,000 from Citigroup – virtualized by
YE 2014

Severn Trent Water
CIO Myron Hrycyk
SI Computacenter
Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop
HP servers and storage
VMware server virtualization
5,500 users in second-stage rollout
HP thin clients, <10% laptops, iPads?

University of North Texas at Dallas
Network administrator Brian Walker
Doubling student population
Budget constraints
VMware vSphere for server virtualization
Unidesk virtual desktop management
Pano Logic zero clients

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?

The future of work
Big data and the information deluge
Knowledge work looks more and more like analytics
MapReduce, Hadoop and parallel processing
Platform as a service: everyone her own programmer
Roam 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
The 451 Group
The Uptime Institute is the leading
independent think tank and research body
serving the global datacenter industry.

Ask questions via the “Questions” tab – we’ll address them at the end.
Rachel.Chalmers@the451group.com
Thank You

The Management Platform
for Better VDI
Chris Midgley, Founder and CTO

Unidesk simplifies the VDI picture
Copyright © 2010 Unidesk Corporation. All Rights Reserved. www.unidesk.com
vSphere
Profiles & Persona
Application Delivery
Windows Management
Management
Infrastructure
Storage
Reduction
Broker Access
Client Devices
View XenDesktop
XenApp ThinApp

Our unique approach: change storage
C:

Layering addresses major challenges

Patch the Windows gold image once

Package, update, and deliver any application

Sustain all profiles and persona

VDI that is better than your PC

Realize massive storage savings

DEMO
Watch the Unidesk Demo on our website:
www.Unidesk.com

Innovation recognized by industry leaders
“Dynamic desktop composition represents an advance in
client management technology and can help accelerate
growth for virtual desktops where the ability to
personalize the user experience is needed. Unidesk’s
layering technology is an innovative example and we
look forward to collaborating to enhance the virtual
desktop experience for VMware View and VMware
vSphere™ customers.”
- Scott Davis, CTO, Desktop Virtualization, VMware
“Solutions like Unidesk help drive growth for virtual
desktops across the enterprise by giving users the ability
to personalize their desktops to have the same or better
experience than they had with a traditional PC. We look
forward to continued collaboration with Unidesk to
provide a powerful virtual desktop experience for our
customers.”
- Harry Labana, CTO, Citrix Desktop Division

Customers benefit from better VDI

Questions?
Ask them now using the “Questions” tab
Ask your questions now using the
“Questions” tab
Other ways to stay in touch:
www.unidesk.com
Twitter: @VirtualDesktop
Chris Midgley: cmidgley@unidesk.com

Thank you for attending!
Watch the a recording of the webinar on our website:
http://www.unidesk.com/webinar/the-451-group-11102010

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