The Virtual Desktop Mole

Following on from my recent “Chinwag” with Gabrie Van Zanten, this blogpost compares the relative merits of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop. It raises the issue that a VDI project does offer the tempting possibility of considering other virtualization vendors other than VMware. It also posits the idea that by diversifying your virtual portfolio to be more multi-vendor you might reduce your dependency on a single virtualization vendor, build the virtualization team out of the striaght-jacket of being a VMware-One-Trick-Pony – and although your organization to really play one virtualization vendor of against another from a licensing perspective.

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