Research Reports: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market Trends

Published on Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Categories: Client Devices | IT Infrastructure | IT Operations | Management Automation | Research Reports | Thin Client Computing | Virtualization Management |
Authors: Bill Lundell | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight | Mark Bowker |

ESG recently surveyed 480 North American and Western European IT decision makers responsible for overseeing their organization’s desktop and mobile computing strategies in order to better gauge their current usage of, interest in, and familiarity with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology. The survey these respondents completed was designed to answer the following questions:

• What is the average profile of corporate desktop computing environments in terms of the number and type of client access devices, number of corporate applications, and the staff time and resources necessary to manage them?
• What are the biggest challenges facing IT staffs with respect to managing their organizations’ desktop computing environments?
• How pervasive is the use of thin client computing technologies as an alternative to traditional desktop computing?
• What are the adoption rates for and interest in virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology specifically?
• What factors are driving VDI interest among early, planned, and potential adopters of the technology?
• What impact has VDI technology had on both data center infrastructure (i.e., servers, storage, networks) and client access device plans and preferences?
• How widespread will the deployment of VDI be within organizations, in terms of both the number and type of employees using the technology?
• What benefits have early adopters derived from the VDI implementations?
• What are the biggest challenges that early adopters have experienced with their VDI deployments?
• What are non-adopters’ greatest concerns surrounding VDI technology?
• What would cause non-adopters to reconsider their current position on VDI?
• ... and much more!

This comprehensive report is 47 pages in length and includes 55 figures and tables. For more information on the contents and findings of this report, please download the executive summary below. ESG Research Report VDI Market Trends Executive Summary

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