Cloud Computing: VDI technology has made progress – just not enough

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Todd Knapp.

Although the "year of VDI" never really came about, the desktop virtualization industry has seen many changes over the past year. Cloud computing, the consumerization of IT and improved graphics delivery have all contributed to a better virtual desktop experience — making virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) viable in more organizations. To help you get a handle on the big picture of VDI, we posed this question to five desktop virtualization experts:

What technologies or trends had the biggest impact on VDI in 2013?

Todd Knapp: The question itself supposes that something has, in fact, had a big impact on VDI in 2013. Sadly, I’m not so sure that’s happened yet. Nothing has had a big enough impact to make VDI see more adoption because there are still many obstacles to overcome…

I was told in 2010 that it was “the year of the desktop,” but there hasn’t yet been a mass migration to virtual desktops like there was for servers. VDI’s growth continues to be stunted because of I/O mitigation, departmentally installed apps (DIA), user installed apps (UIA), profiling complexity, and the fact that us nerds are often better at pushing buttons than we are at understanding how our users actually interact with technology…

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