When deciding to change careers from health and fitness to technology, I was looking for a product that I could really stand behind and that would change the lives of people for the better. One of the main reasons people get into health and fitness is, “to help people.” By continuing to help people through innovative technology, I wouldn’t be straying too far from my core beliefs as a personal trainer.

I recently accepted an offer to be Product Manager at V3 Systems, not only because I would be able to geek out with some seriously cool hardware and hang with some of the best and brightest in the VDI community— but more importantly to be part of a team that likes to build great things.

Think of your own image. It’s probably required years of careful focus and dedication for you  to emerge as the well-balanced individual you are today. One’s image tends to be the result of a lot of attention, refinement and scrutiny. With the growth of virtual desktops, another kind of image has emerged -- the image used in a virtual desktop environment. 

If you have seen V3’s latest campaign titled, “Drop into Desktop Cloud Computing” you might be asking yourself, what the heck does “drop in” even mean, and what in the world does skateboarding have to do with VDI?

Since we at V3 Systems began our journey to the cloud, many roadblock statements have been made by multiple groups as to why one should not adopt VDI or any of its relatives like virtual desktops, remote desktop technologies, or DaaS. I wanted to write to address this as well as draw from a Harvard Business Review article which proposed that we not let the minimum win over the viable (Harvard Business Review Magazine; David Aycan May 25, 2012, “Don’t Let the Minimum Win Over the Viable.")

A lot of people are confused about the components of a complete VDI solution and where exactly different products and companies sit. Case in point, back in August, Jack Madden wrote an article and mentioned that V3 competes in a crowded space with competitors such as Whiptail, Xtremio, and STEC,  not to mention “big boys” like Cisco, HP, and Dell. Yes, the “big boys” mentioned are competitors to V3, because they offer the complete VDI solution as a whole, but the first three are not and I would like to explain why in the following paragraphs.