[THIN] Re: Desktop

Nice layout of the pros and cons.

Stephanie

Joe Shonk <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:        v\:* 
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st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }           I?m not sure I agree with 
this?  If you?re just looking to deliver an XP Themed desktop then a 
conventional SBC solution is still the way to go.
   
  Here a few reasons why companies are looking at VDI:
   
  Simplification of workflow (a VDI desktop looks, functions and can be managed 
in the same exact way (or little change) that a traditional workstation is).  
SBC is traditionally a Server Team responsibility.  VDI is/will become a 
Desktop Team responsibility.  Virtuozzo add complexity by changing the 
deployment workflow tools and methodology.  It also grays the area of 
management responsibility.  (Who manages it?  Server team or Desktop).  A 
Virtuozzo based will require companies to hire highly skilled administrators to 
implement and maintain the system.  Much like they have to do with SBC 
solutions.
  Hypervisor based technology is easy to understand and explain
  Hypervisor based technology is better overall at isolating the user?s session 
and application.
  Hypervisor based technology allows for multiple OS?  Customers still have 
Win9x\Win 2000 only apps.
  Along the same lines, some application will only run on XP and not Windows 
2003.
  We?ve been find a lot of applications (for on reason or another) that use 
kernel mode drivers.  Something that Virtuozzo doesn?t deal with very well.
   
  Virtuozzo does fit well with a SBC solution simply it allows for better 
efficiencies for LMGs (Silos).
   
  Joe
   
      
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  From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Mads Sørensen
 Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 10:32 AM
 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 Subject: [THIN] Re: Desktop
  
   
    Now we are talking VDI products, I think one of the best VDI products out 
there right now is "Parallels Virtuozzo 4.0", The beauty is that it uses the 
container technology on a Windows Server 2003 and with almost no overhead. So 
with a Windows Server 2003 Datacenter license and the XP Theme service, you can 
start as many desktops as you want or twice as many as you could with some 
other VDI software on one server :-).  It has a really good management 
interface and I could go on. But as Rick also writes it may not be the place to 
discuss this.. so I'll stop her.. but it's really worth taking a look at.
  
     
  
    /Mads
 
  
  
    2008/3/30, Rick Mack <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>: 
    Hi Steve,
  
     
  
    I think I've pushed the bounds far enough. I've always felt that this 
wasn't the forum for commercial exploits, but I couldn't resist a little dig. 
Sorry.
  
     
  
    Besides, would you really appreciate my giving you the complete spiel on 
Provision Network's VAS?
  
     
  
    Provision do have a great VDI product that's only getting better, but if 
you want to find out about it contact me offline, rick.mack@xxxxxxxxx, I'll be 
happy to oblige.
  
     
  
    regards,
  
     
  
    Rick
  
     
  
    -- 
 Ulrich Mack
 Quest Software
 Provision Networks Division 
  
  
      On 3/30/08, Steve Greenberg <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
      Rick,
   Tell us more about that VDI product?.!
    Steve Greenberg
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
     
  
  


Wishing you a wonderful day!

Stephanie
       
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