The cloud has come to stay. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , during Q3 of 2014 total cloud infrastructure revenue for the quarter grew over $6.5 billion, 16 % higher than that in the same dates of 2013.
These data highlight the rise of the cloud phenomenon. In fact, the consultant explains in its report that during the last months of the year one third of the budget spent on “infrastructure of servers, storage on disk and Ethernet switch” was intended for cloud computing.
In our post today we go back to VDI adoption and its involvement in the lifecycle management of the virtual desktops. A few days ago we talked about the planning phase and today we focus on the acquisition one. This is approximately 50% of the total cost of the desktop lifecycle.
At this stage, negotiations will be conducted for the purchase of the server platform that will host the virtual desktops and the unpacking of the platform will also be carried out. The IT department will work on the physical installation and connection of the components, the installation of peripherals and image creation (OS and applicationinstallation).
Later, there comes the moment to deploy the new fleet of desktops, a topic that we will describe in next articles.
If you still need to buy some of them and you are evaluating the possibility of giving technology, we advise you to follow the recommendations of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and choose those products, software or subscriptions which do not have restrictions, give freedom to the user to share them and don’t force him to pay any license.
Adopting virtual desktops greatly affects the desktops’ lifecycle in each of its stages, improving operations and providing better customer service and updates management as well as desktop security.
Today we begin a series of posts dealing with each one of the desktop lifecycle stages and the resulting improvements that come from implementing virtual PCs.
First of all we are going to talk about Planning. During this stage, the server platform, shared storage and software that will manage the virtual desktop fleet are defined. In this case, calculations are made to determine which shared resources are needed to host the virtual desktops. Making a pilot or concept test is essential in this phase.
Are you a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 Pro user? In this post we explain how to enable the Hyper-V hypervisor in this operating system to deploy virtual desktops or to perform a dynamic allocation of RAM or to compact, extend and reduce volumes or use volumes of dynamic allocation of space.
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