by Administrator
2. April 2010 17:23
The launch of Windows 7 has led to a growing number of firms taking on various VDI programmes, according to new figures.
Microsoft's senior product manager for virtualisation Ian Carlson has said that the "VDI revolution" has now commenced because it gives more agility to mobile workers and more business continuity to companies.
“A year ago, desktop virtualisation would have been a narrow conversation around VDI, but we are beginning to see this broaden out," he said.
Ian claims that Microsoft, which spends around $8 billion every year on research and development, has now begun to invest heavily in virtual desktop technology. In particular they've been focussing on solving virtualisation issues, enabling one-to-one mapping for shift workers and enabling technologies which suit a wide variety of industries.
“Virtualisation is a critical and strategic investment area for Microsoft. We think of virtualisation as a management technology," Ian said. "Is it an infrastructure technology? Absolutely, but it really is the ability to manage disaster recovery, performance, and workloads dynamically."
He says that businesses are now keener than ever before to have a system where they can deploy one application centrally instead of from machine to machine. One of the biggest issues which is believed to be holding some companies back is the fear of application compatibility if they move to a new OS, however with the huge growth in virtual desktops in the last few months it looks like this could soon turn out to be an unfounded fear.
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