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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Chuck Hollis of EMC (VMWare) has written an article recently on where he feel</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is going. A VDI is an entire virtualized desktop that is run on the VMWare server that is accessed by multiple users. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">A good example of where it would be useful would be say like a training room where you could have multiple versions of desktops with different apps installed. This is</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">worth reading and definitely worth checking out the links he mentions in the article.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">A small library could leverage this technology</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">for example</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> keep their workstations longer</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and easily do change management for updates</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri"> Virtualization</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> hypervisors</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> going to be built into</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">servers with deals Citrix and VMWare have made with HP/Dell and Microsoft</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">making</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> HyperV for Server 2008. It will be important for administrators</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">to follow this technology. And don't be fooled, it's not just a "Windows thing" Linux desktops are being virtualized.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">EMC's Chuck Hollis on VDI.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A HREF="http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2008/03/vdi----the-red.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Calibri">http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2008/03/vdi----the-red.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Regards,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Jim Kenzig</FONT></SPAN></P>
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