With RemoteFX becoming more of a reality, it got me thinking in to the way VDI is misunderstood and hyped.

As has been proclaimed before, VDI is seen as the silver bullet for IT’s desktop management woes. IT reclaims control of the desktop and therefore decreases opex whilst increases customer satisfaction/perception and everyone lives happily ever after. Almost. It’s only part of the puzzle.

To really make a virtual desktop solution sing, you need to concentrate on the user. Initially ignore the broker, ignore the hypervisor, ignore the infrastructure…. look at your applications, user profiles and user data and work backwards.

What is the point of having an elastic infrastructure that can weather the most demanding of user scenarios if your apps are still provisioned in an antiquated way.

What is the point of having the best protocol, so your user’s can enjoy YouTube during their lunchtimes if it takes them 30 mins to log on in the morning because their profiles are huge.

Not a lot…