Comments on: Why iPads might be desktop virtualization’s greatest threat

By: Ecorro

Ecorro — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:55:52 +0000

I think this is very interesting specially because VDI manufacturers are not really thinking that there is a trade off between the adoption of VDI and the adoption of tablets by the enterprise. I think that in certain circumstances tablets are mutually exclusive with virtual desktops especially is the tablets gets empowered by SaaS aps, then there is no need for windows, therefore there is not room for VDI (at least the VMware’s and CTX implementations of VDI). It’d be great if Michael could write an update of this article by the end of Q4FY11 to see what happened at the end in this year.

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Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:19:17 +0000

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By: Is desktop virtualization in trouble? A Follow-Up. - Enterprise IT Watch Blog

Is desktop virtualization in trouble? A Follow-Up. - Enterprise IT Watch Blog — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:32:00 +0000

[...] while back, Michael Morisy posed the question: Are iPads desktop virtualization’s greatest threat? When we posed the same question to the Cloud Computing, VMware, Virtualization and Enterprise 2.0 [...]

By: 14ALL

14ALL — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:04:32 +0000

Imagine a virtual desktop that can recognize the particular device you are on at the moment and display accordingly! Perhaps even have the ability to incorporate local PDA apps within the virtual offering! That would put the smart phones and tablets in their place for sure!

By: Penicks

Penicks — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:04:10 +0000

You have to take the “desktop” out of the Virtualization. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a laptop, netbook, notebook, desktop…what ever… we will continue to implement virtualization of these “access devices” because it is so much easier to support the software centralized and virtualized as well as storage is organized and secured thru security profiles. A user downloads the applet that allows them to get to the supporting software that they need to assess/use… for business the activity may be in a private or public cloud, for personal, right now it’s public clouds, but I believe as threats/security issue increase for all these devices, even public personal users may contract with Private hosts to keep all their activity from prying eyes….look for this next on the horizon.

By: Michael Morisy

Michael Morisy — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:42:22 +0000

Thanks for the comment Shilpa. Sounds like a great topic for a follow up post!

By: Shillu13

Shillu13 — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:37:38 +0000

Nice post. Desktop traditionally was where everything was stored: applications, personal documents, data contacts, etc. But with smart phones and tablets, some of this is already distributed. With cloud you can still store this and more and access it from anywhere. So the real question is how much of your stuff can float in the cloud? What are the risks?