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Supporting virtual desktops: the back-end infrastructure

Supporting virtual desktops: the back-end infrastructure. Presented by John Abbott, Chief Analyst, The 451 Group. Session reference 2B6 for your feedback forms. Supporting virtual desktops: the back-end infrastructure - SNW Europe, October 2011. The 451 Group.

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Supporting virtual desktops: the back-end infrastructure

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  1. Supporting virtual desktops: the back-end infrastructure Presented by John Abbott, Chief Analyst, The 451 Group Session reference 2B6 for your feedback forms

  2. Supporting virtual desktops: the back-end infrastructure - SNW Europe, October 2011

  3. The 451 Group • 451 Research is focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely insight into the competitive dynamics of innovation in emerging technology segments. • Tier1 Research is a single-source research and advisory firm covering the multi-tenant datacenter, hosting, IT and cloud-computing sectors, blending the best of industry and financial research. • The Uptime Institute is ‘The Global Data Center Authority’ and a pioneer in the creation and facilitation of end-user knowledge communities to improve reliability and uninterruptible availability in datacenter facilities. • TheInfoPro is a leading IT advisory and research firm that provides real-world perspectives on the customer and market dynamics of the enterprise information technology landscape, harnessing the collective knowledge and insight of leading IT organizations worldwide. • ChangeWave Research is a research firm that identifies and quantifies ‘change’ in consumer spending behavior, corporate purchasing, and industry, company and technology trends.

  4. 451 Research • What do we analyze? • Competitive dynamics of innovation • Funding and formation • Product development and go-to-market strategy • Competitive landscape and business development • M&A scenarios and exits • End-user adoption • Inhibitors and accelerators • Trends and patterns • Vendor selection • Specific deployments (case studies)

  5. A bit of history From physical to virtual 1970s - the desktop metaphor: Xerox, Mac and Windows 1980s - X Windows, X-terminals and rise of the thin client 1990s - Unix Common Desktop, Citrix WinServer 1999 – VMware establishes X86 server virtualization 2002 – Customers experiment with desktop virtualization 850 offshore service centre employees provided with full Prudential desktop – including 100 applications – by adapting VMware ESX to serve desktop images

  6. A bit of history 2003 – Microsoft buys Connectix (now Virtual PC) 2004 - EMC buys VMware for $625m 2005 – VMware Connection Broker demonstrated 2006 – VDI alliance formed, 50 members, including Citrix 2006 – Microsoft buys Softricity (now App-V) 2007 – VDM 1.0 launched, VMware acquires Propero 2007 – VMware goes public, Citrix acquires XenSource 2008 – VDM 2.0 and View 3, Citrix XenDesktop 2.0 2009 – PCoIP challenge to RDP and Citrix’s ICA 2010 – View 4.5, XenDesktop 5 2011 – XenDesktop 5.5, View 5

  7. Market Monitor “We project that the total market for the desktop virtualization ecosystem will grow from $737.4m in 2010 to $3.7bn in 2014, a compound annual growth rate of 47%. Desktop virtualization is expected to see solid, double-digit growth due to growing traction across enterprise within various verticals” 451 Group Market Monitor, July 2011

  8. Market Monitor

  9. The Next Big Thing?

  10. High-end deployments Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi 20,000 seats - plans to scale up to 50,000 • ING 10,000 seats – plans to double to 20,000 next year

  11. Justifying ROI – For and against For: Easier to manage Increased availability Improved utilization Better security lower operational expenses Against: business case is less clear-cut than server virtualization Value is realized over time rather than immediately Performance can be hard to predict Functionality may be restricted in some use cases

  12. The Storage Problem Cost Storage is by far the most expensive element of infrastructure Performance Data access speed and I/O requirements must be understood Sizing Modeling the required resources is complex and must be tested

  13. Pain point - the Boot Storm

  14. Storage strategies for VDI Storing images Provisioning Caching Integration Convergence

  15. Vendor approaches VMware (and its partners) Citrix (and its partners) Alternatives

  16. The future - new clients

  17. The future – virtualized infrastructure

  18. Questions? Email: john.abbott@the451group.com

  19. WELCOME + = Please remember to complete the feedback forms (also available online) Copies of presentations will be posted on the conference website for downloading after the event. #snweurope Please switch off or set to silent all mobile devices Please observe the no-smoking rules

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