Client Virtualisation, Coming Up Fast
Ovum, April 2009, Pages: 12
Introduction
Virtualisation is coming to the desktop via a range of fast-developing architectures, promising to lower both direct and indirect costs, improve application flexibility and increase security.
Scope
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Highlights
Ensuring that technology investments drive competitive advantage, and that technology spend is not all absorbed by routine and non-differentiating technology, is more important than ever. Developing repeatable assets, new approaches to service innovation and moving into adjacent segments are all being tried - as are many other approaches. What is clear is that selecting the right markets to focus on is more important than ever.
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Executive summary
In a nutshell
The Ovum view
Recommendations
Start from the goal
Explore the architectures
Keep an eye on bare-metal client hypervisors
Terminology
Desktop virtualisation
Presentation virtualisation
Application virtualisation
Hosted virtual desktops (HVDs)
Bare-metal virtualisation
Is it worth it?
Comparing costs
HVD faces a hardware rap
Presentation virtualisation
The originator
Application virtualisation as a peacemaker
Resolving conflicts
Application virtualisation inside presentation virtualisation
HVD brings it all home
Server-based computing with customisable desktops
HVD moves up a gear
HVD competition will heat up
Bare-metal client virtualisation sails into view
Server-style virtualisation for clients
Free from metal dependencies
Touching metal for security
Mixing bare-metal into HVD
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