30. September 2008 by Tony.

Brian Madden has recently posted his VDI Product Smackdown as presented at BriForum this year.

If your on the fence regarding vendors for a Virtual desktop initiative this is a Must See!

VDI Product Smackdown

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25. September 2008 by Tony.

Paul Venezia, senior contributing editor of the InfoWorld Test Center, recently posted a review of Citrix XenDesktop. Paul writes “The future is bright for VDI and, thus, for XenDesktop”. He goes on to say “Citrix has married VDI to its existing stable of application and desktop delivery mechanisms, and it continues to leverage the stellar ICA protocol to assist in speed, user experience, and manageability” (emphasis mine). The review evaluates Citrix XenDesktop on five categories - Management, Performance, Scalability, Setup and Value. Overall, Paul rates XenDesktop solution as “Very Good”.

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25. September 2008 by Tony.

Desktop Virtualization: VMware Adds To VDI Protocol Collection
— VMware is collecting protocols. Last week it made Teradici’s day and announced that it had licensed the software implementation of the Canadian start-up’s PC-over-IP display protocol technology as a key piece of its so-called PC-replacing vClient initiative.

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24. September 2008 by Tony.

 Microsoft was present in a booth on the VMworld show floor, Microsoft claimed it had been largely shut out of presentations and other in-person marketing opportunities at VMworld . So it sent flunkies out to hand out as many as 4,000 cards and US$1 casino chips to VMworld conference attendees touting Microsoft’s virtualization solution and a web site called VMwareCostsWayTooMuch.com

More HERE

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10. September 2008 by Tony.

How it works:

This unique assessment is designed specifically to help organizations determine the TCO and ROI benefits of a Server and/or Desktop Consolidation via Virtualization Technologies

The results of the report include expected Capital expenditures, as well as ROI and TCO metrics that can be refined by the customer to allow for geographic differences

Some interesting facts we discovered during pilots a four different hospitals:

Averages:

Number of Beds in the Hospital:           580

Assessment size:

2592 PC’s

334 servers

TCO results for Desktop Virtualization

• Based upon the information provided for the 2,592 user desktops being planned for virtualization, the projected outcome of this proposed VMware VDI solution over the 3-year analysis includes:

–        Virtualize the desktop infrastructure for 2,592 desktops, reducing capital costs by $ 3,675,292 and operating costs by $ 2,125,376 over the next three years, $ 72.82 per desktop in savings on average.

–        Achieve an ROI of 10.4% from an investment of $ 5,254,512 in virtual desktop infrastructure solution, and projected savings of $ 546,156.

–        An NPV savings of $ 286,307 and a projected payback period of 12 months.

If you’d like additional information of t eCON (enterprise consolidation) assessment please contact me here: info@centriserv.com

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