For me as a Sales Engineer, I cannot tell you how important it is to believe in and stand behind the technology you sell. In the past, I worked at a company where they were good at marketing their products, but couldn’t deliver on what they sold. It was hard to go to work, and I felt that my individual integrity was at stake every time I talked with a customer. In contrast, my first week at V3 Systems was quite exciting and inspirational, and it brought a fresh outlook on my career. Everything I read about the company before I started was overwhelmingly positive. 

As the world rushes into the Cloud and IT Professionals drool over its capabilities and inevitable future, Cavemen like myself who ultimately write checks (or should I say execute online transfers) to catapult ourselves into this wispy future pause and say – What the hell is the Cloud and what does it do for me anyway?

Desktop Replacement Virtualization (DRV) enabled me to be as productive as ever while moving my household to a new location.

Last month Microsoft published a white paper titled “VDI TCO Analysis for Office Worker Environments“.  They concluded, VDI with Windows 7 as the desktop has an 11% higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than a traditional PC desktop. Another prevalent assertion throughout the whitepaper was the finding that VDI users complained of “a diminished user experience.”   We at V3 Systems are NOT seeing the same numbers or experience.

As I look at the landscape, both emerging and deployed for virtual desktop deployments, I find myself measuring virtual desktops against their predecessors: the physical desktops.

For my first blog post ever I wanted to focus on the pieces and parts which are used to make up Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Generally I hear these pieces and parts of virtual desktops referred to as building blocks. As I read recommended architectures out there from the consortiums leading the way for us, I see one troubling trend. That trend is using the same architectures which have worked for virtualizing servers being used for virtual desktops.