For the latest set of MVPDays events in Western
Canada, I had the opportunity to speak about VDI. The MVPDays team
was really on the ball this time around to record some of the
presentations, so I had the opportunity to have
my video posted to Microsoft's
Channel 9. It was a great time to reconnect with fellow
MVPs and customers in Calgary,
Edmonton,
and Vancouver. Hope to do it again next year.
The session looks at how new hardware, software and the cloud is
changing the world of VDI. Many smaller organizations have found
traditional VDI to be too complex and expensive to adopt while enterprises have
struggled to manage it. In this session, I have an overview of some of the
modern challenges facing VDI and the options you have to overcome it.
I will review some of the latest trends in hardware to create easy to deploy
VDI environments on-premises and look at how the cloud is simplifying the
design and operation of VDI. I also explore other technologies at the
software level that manage the VDI environment from the hypervisor all the
way up to the user data. It has been a long journey for VDI, but I believe
we finally see cost effective solutions that make a stronger case for
organizations to phase out traditional desktop computing devices.
