VDI : A case for better security and manageability in the flat world
Here is an introduction.
Someone with more wisdom not so recently said "The playing field is being leveled. Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language".
My friendly neighbour CIO likes to swear at the notion of flat world. He claims that the flat world is only the people side of the picture. What about the data? Business works on information and even though people are mobile and spread all across the park the problem is that the data is still at the headquarters. He also claims that things will remain the same for quite some time to come.
Does the classic terminal server model solve the new problems of the flat world?
Can WAN acceleration technologies solve the data and applications proximity problem for all the cases. Do you still live in the world of legacy applications that run into problems with the classical server side application publishing model.
Are you worried about this.
Do you belive that new technologies can help dev/test teams across the different corners of the globe to work more efficiently? Can people working across different shifts in an offshore call center share the same hardware resources? Can servers in the finance market be used for hosting desktops in the day and for number crunching at night?
Manageability is an overused term but how do you plan to manage the 10k desktops in your enterprise. Are you trying to address the issues of application diversity, licensing, quick desktop provisioniong demands from the top of the hierarchy, application upgrades, patch management, internationalization and help desk calls.
How much time does it take to increase the resources (cpu, memory) assigned to a desktop in the real world. Do you think virtualization can help. Does current terminal server technologies allow server abuse. Do you want to have more control over the computing resources used by each user in your department?
We all know that G: is coming. How many people in your organization will survive on stateless desktops? I should rephrase that. How many problems will be solved if the desktops are stateless.
Next time the sales guy visits you ask him to do away with the old school application publishing ppt !
Someone with more wisdom not so recently said "The playing field is being leveled. Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language".
My friendly neighbour CIO likes to swear at the notion of flat world. He claims that the flat world is only the people side of the picture. What about the data? Business works on information and even though people are mobile and spread all across the park the problem is that the data is still at the headquarters. He also claims that things will remain the same for quite some time to come.
Does the classic terminal server model solve the new problems of the flat world?
Can WAN acceleration technologies solve the data and applications proximity problem for all the cases. Do you still live in the world of legacy applications that run into problems with the classical server side application publishing model.
Are you worried about this.
Do you belive that new technologies can help dev/test teams across the different corners of the globe to work more efficiently? Can people working across different shifts in an offshore call center share the same hardware resources? Can servers in the finance market be used for hosting desktops in the day and for number crunching at night?
Manageability is an overused term but how do you plan to manage the 10k desktops in your enterprise. Are you trying to address the issues of application diversity, licensing, quick desktop provisioniong demands from the top of the hierarchy, application upgrades, patch management, internationalization and help desk calls.
How much time does it take to increase the resources (cpu, memory) assigned to a desktop in the real world. Do you think virtualization can help. Does current terminal server technologies allow server abuse. Do you want to have more control over the computing resources used by each user in your department?
We all know that G: is coming. How many people in your organization will survive on stateless desktops? I should rephrase that. How many problems will be solved if the desktops are stateless.
Next time the sales guy visits you ask him to do away with the old school application publishing ppt !
posted by Puneet Chawla at 12:24 PM
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