You got 2 points spot on.
1) Global end users
2) Cost effective

VDI for 10 users is first generation virtualization solution. Here the company assembles all the components like Hypervisor, brokering agent, load balancer and then builds a composite solution. It is pretty tedious and the management overhead is also pretty huge.

The VDI solution i am talking about is one full fledged solution which is easy to setup, easy to scale, easy to manage and that which has an intelligent load balancer.

An ideal VDI solution would scale to thousands of users, each desktop supporting 100s of applications and would have have offline capabilities when they are not connected to the network.

The technology is not there yet but it is just a matter of time that we get there.

Thanks for your post!!!!!!!!!

Arun.PC

VDI has been in existence for more than 3 years now… I remember deploying VMWARE Servers and create Virtual Desktops for end users… VDI is a very cost effective way of deploying Desktop infrastructure if you have end users all across the globe… You can run minimum 10 virtual desktops all running different OS using one single console…. VDI is fun and organizations should adopt it more when it comes to offshore developers and end users….

Nice post BTW…. keep updating it