![]() HPcalled to get me up to speed on how their blades could contribute to desktop virtualization projects and confused the hell out of me before I realized they weren’t saying blade-based PCs were better than desktop infrastructures from VMware or HP. That can mean running a whole session on a blade PC in a data center, running dozens of PC OSes as virtual machines on a server, running dozens of application sessions on a server and piping control for each out to a desktop, or any of half a dozen other interesting permutations. “Desktop virtualization” just means separating the machine on which the user works from the software s/he uses. And the problem is, in many cases, they’re right. ![]() Desktop virtualization -which I dissed in a previous blog entry as being applicable in only relatively limited circumstances-is showing a lot more resilience and adaptability that I gave it credit for.ĭesktop virtualization vendors have come out of the woodwork to talk about how their particular product sets -many of which have not traditionally been described as virtualization of any kind-are actually contributors to desktop virtualization.
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