I just got through reading Brian Madden’s blog entry about the unsaid, unmentioned, and unseen cost that Enterprise’s incur by going down the path of VDI. Here’s a really good article he wrote about the things “folks don’t tell you about VDI costs”.
<taken from Brian Madden’s blog>
How VMware is misleading everyone about the cost savings of VDI
I just got out of my first breakout session here at VMworld Europe 2009. It was a session about the cost savings of VDI. The presenter was good and the content was basically good. In the session, the presenter walked step-by-step through a comparison of a traditional fat-client desktop computing model with a VMware View 3-based VDI model. She covered capex and opex expenses and looked at all the reasons customers could save money (both hard and soft costs) by going with VDI.
I agreed with MOST of the content of the session. However, I think VMware left out two very, very important things. In fact these omissions are so great that they would "break" VMware’s VDI cost savings model. But instead of addressing them, VMware just ignored them. (They weren’t even mentioned!) Most of the audience was new to VDI (as evidenced by the number of hands that went up when the presenter asked how many people had heard of VECD and who had used ThinApp.)
This is a big problem. After this presentation was over, 200 people walked out of that room thinking that VDI is great and provides great savings, but VMware mislead them all by not providing the complete picture.
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