VDI - The Next Big Thing?

In our wanderings we're always asked; What's the next big thing? In the infrastructure arena circa 2007, it may just be VDI -- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. There are already about a dozen companies positioning themselves for what could be a land grab opportunity. The basics of VDI is to use modern virtualization platforms to move the desktop computing back to a virtualized server farm and use connection broker technology to project onto distributed client systems. The organizational ownership benefits are huge -- simplified desktop management, reduced desktop refresh cycles and reduced operational support. And the technology may be perfect for doing things like moving to Vista without having to change out desktop hardware. VDI market opportunities have the potential to be on the same scale as Citrix (Citrix has something like 20M users at over 180,000 organizations), so the opportunity potentially can be enormous. Looks like good stuff for one of our upcoming reports -- interested? jkatsaros@irg-intl.com