IDC ignores IBM, Citrix in its Desktop Virtualization report
By Tarry Singh at 5 December, 2008, 2:34 pm
IDC says its study, Virtualizing the Desktop Part 2: Client-Hosted Virtualization Leadership Grid, “compares the solutions of the top vendors providing desktop virtualization solutions, executed directly on the client. Solutions are ranked in an IDC Leadership Grid, and extensive information is provided on solution capabilities and vendor market positioning.”
Terrific, but just four vendors products are evaluated and they are VMware, RingCube, MokaFive, and Sentillion. Don’t bother looking for Xen Desktop in the study. It isn’t there. Nor is the IBM virtual desktop. Just in case you think that VMware is it and you can forget the other three vendors in the study, IDC says: “from a technological perspective RingCube offered some of the best features currently available, while VMware held the strongest marketing position and ecosystem. MokaFive delivered a strong product with excellent management features and Sentillion provided a solution with a high degree of security.”
Matthew McCormack, a client computing consultant in IDC’s European Systems Group, said: “2009 will be a developmental year for desktop virtualization technology with lots of pilot activity. From 2010 we’ll see the technology begin to enter the mainstream.”
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