What does the future of desktop virtualization hold? This was the topic of discussion at VMworld 2011 between Jason Langone, VCD at Microtech, Andre Leibovici, Senior vSpecialist at EMC and host Stu Miniman, Wikibon Analyst.
Miniman asked how disaster recovery fits into the desktop environment based on actual natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes that have plagued different areas in recent years. Langone agreed that this is a tricky area. He noted that SRM (Site Recovery Manager) has been adopted as a proper disaster recovery tool by many agencies and organizations, and a lot of those same groups are considering using VMware View as well. SRM has the ability to fail over mission critical applications, where VM View would enable their employees to still work from home in the event of a disaster.
Miniman asked how much the desktop and the cloud are merging. Leibovici believes there is a movement towards desktop as a service. He said he sees users moving to a consumption-based desktop. Miniman stated that service providers such as EMC, NetApp, and HP seem to be looking at desktop as a service as a way to overcome the slowness in the VDI market. Langone pointed out that sometimes customers are confused when they say they want desktop as a service, when in reality, they want to do published applications, not published desktops.
Miniman asked Langone's opinion on the competition between VMware and Ctirix. Langone said VMware is very strong from an adoption standpoint, and their federal agency customers have been happy with the performance of vSphere. He said VMware View comprises nine out of ten of his deployments in the U.S. Federal arena.
Miniman brought up that one of the main obstacles facing desktop virtualization today is that tools are needed to help understand the desktop environment, but unfortunately, nothing is standardized. Leibovici mentioned that when he was working as a consultant at VMware, he built an online calculator that helps administrators to size their VDI environment. The site receives more than one million hits per month and can be found at myvirtualcloud.net.
Miniman asked where the whitespace is in the marketplace and what's lacking that customers are asking for? Langone said that one of the main holes is a solution for a cross-domain of unsecured and secured networks.
Miniman said that from a vendor standpoint, one of biggest challenges in this marketplace is that it's highly fragmented and to put together a full end to end solution is very difficult. He asked where the ecosystem is maturing for this. Leibovici answered that in most VDI deployments, the biggest bottleneck is storage, but that's only because the storage not properly architected for the VDI solution. He said that EMC is not only selling storage arrays, but also educating customers on how to size and adjust storage for performance, since VDI has very specific performance requirements. He observed that his deployments are mainly VM View and Zen desktop.
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Jason Langone, Microtech and Andre Leibovici, EMC | VMworld 2011
What does the future of desktop virtualization hold? This was the topic of discussion at VMworld 2011 between Jason Langone, VCD at Microtech, Andre Leibovici, Senior vSpecialist at EMC and host Stu Miniman, Wikibon Analyst.
Miniman asked how disaster recovery fits into the desktop environment based on actual natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes that have plagued different areas in recent years. Langone agreed that this is a tricky area. He noted that SRM (Site Recovery Manager) has been adopted as a proper disaster recovery tool by many agencies and organizations, and a lot of those same groups are considering using VMware View as well. SRM has the ability to fail over mission critical applications, where VM View would enable their employees to still work from home in the event of a disaster.
Miniman asked how much the desktop and the cloud are merging. Leibovici believes there is a movement towards desktop as a service. He said he sees users moving to a consumption-based desktop. Miniman stated that service providers such as EMC, NetApp, and HP seem to be looking at desktop as a service as a way to overcome the slowness in the VDI market. Langone pointed out that sometimes customers are confused when they say they want desktop as a service, when in reality, they want to do published applications, not published desktops.
Miniman asked Langone's opinion on the competition between VMware and Ctirix. Langone said VMware is very strong from an adoption standpoint, and their federal agency customers have been happy with the performance of vSphere. He said VMware View comprises nine out of ten of his deployments in the U.S. Federal arena.
Miniman brought up that one of the main obstacles facing desktop virtualization today is that tools are needed to help understand the desktop environment, but unfortunately, nothing is standardized. Leibovici mentioned that when he was working as a consultant at VMware, he built an online calculator that helps administrators to size their VDI environment. The site receives more than one million hits per month and can be found at myvirtualcloud.net.
Miniman asked where the whitespace is in the marketplace and what's lacking that customers are asking for? Langone said that one of the main holes is a solution for a cross-domain of unsecured and secured networks.
Miniman said that from a vendor standpoint, one of biggest challenges in this marketplace is that it's highly fragmented and to put together a full end to end solution is very difficult. He asked where the ecosystem is maturing for this. Leibovici answered that in most VDI deployments, the biggest bottleneck is storage, but that's only because the storage not properly architected for the VDI solution. He said that EMC is not only selling storage arrays, but also educating customers on how to size and adjust storage for performance, since VDI has very specific performance requirements. He observed that his deployments are mainly VM View and Zen desktop.
