VMware’s vSphere: Will all desktops move to vSphere? I think so!

The struggle around recognizing the nature of desktops goes far beyond trying to categorize the desktops as VDI only and hoping that everything will be done with View. Maybe it wil land maybe it won’t. I say: It will and it won’t! Here’s how –

• For the first time we can talk about an end-to-end Fault tolerance. This is a value-add that VDI weren’t able to provide
• Desktops will be added to the vCloud Readiness Assessment Services ,as part of the whole value-chain, no more servers only kind of work [Atos Origin is working hard to achieve that, I will be driving this effort personally]
• Desktops will be recognized as part of your Data Center and not just some ownerships that servers suffered from.
• Desktops will eventually show the true savings that were once poorly calculated by bid teams across many parties. Many hardware vendors have been desperately trying to push their gear into the enterprise whereby messing up the whole TCO/ROI. I have shown the TCO/ROI to companies on their desktops by presenting the “Undocumented Desktop TCO/ROI”. My audience is always shocked to see what they are spending in terms of intangible dollars/euros. Forget the tangible ones that you show on your typical TCO/ROIs.
• Desktops that are more ISO compliant will move faster than the traditional desktops and will be the first ones: My visits to India tell me a simple thing. These boxes are ripe for the Cloud! IT industry in India is looked to adhere to stringent ISO regulations and those boxes are contained and can be measured. As more and more regulatory compliances bind workers to their desktops and even mobile devices such as Blackberries and Laptops, more standardization will ensure your data will be virtualized, no matter how mobile you are. So your end of the device will be yours, but the other end will belong to the data center.
• Client hypervisor that will have full automation and workload management capabilities will surely attract consumers to re-visit the desktop virtualization.
• A typical and optimal desktop landscape will be managed by a single vSphere console but will have different vendors supporting different desktop workloads (Blade PCs, Variety of connection-brokers etc). Don’t worry the costs will be sustained as more and more of the trained staff will be moving towards the data center buildings. All you’ll do is provision desktops from those Cloud Portals

So I think desktop virtualization will benefit a lot more from the vSphere than teh current disconnect that it suffers, even within mature virtualized environments.

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