Dell Research Report Sample

While Taneja Group has been cautious to date on the pace of desktop virtualization adoption, recent hypervisor and storage technology innovations strongly suggest that in 2011 and 2012 we will see a rapid acceleration. Other contributing factors include strong enterprise confidence in compute and storage virtualization, the Windows 7 adoption cycle, an improving economic climate, and an increasingly mobile workforce. Nearly 20% of CIOs report that desktop virtualization projects are underway, and we expect this to grow to 30% by mid-2011.

It makes sense: desktop virtualization holds an even greater promise for both capital cost (CapEx) and operational expense (OpEx) savings than server virtualization, given the vast numbers of deployed desktop PCs and the steady flow of new flavors of mobile devices. Key to this momentum has been increased interest in one type of desktop virtualization, namely server-hosted virtual desktops (often called “virtual desktop infrastructure,” or VDI). VDI has often promised more than it delivered, however, due to complexity, performance and cost challenges.