5. 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
10. …but I still want this image as my desktop wallpaper
11. 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?
15. Survey results
Users by size
Users by industry
Users by budget
Business drivers
Vendors
Survey monkey, April-August 2010, n=40
16. Users by size
0 5 10 15 20
Fewer than 50
employees
50-500
employees
500-5,000
employees
More than 5,000
employees
17. Users by industry
0 2 4 6 8 10
Energy
Research
Wholesale distribution
Retail
Financial services
Manufacturing
Government
Healthcare
Technology
Education
18. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
25. 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?
26. 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
28. 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?
32. 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
33. 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.
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Rachel.Chalmers@the451group.com
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