VDI News Roundup: Week of June 26
June 30, 2017
In case you didn’t have time to keep up with this week’s virtual desktop headlines, here are a few of our favorites for the week of June 26, 2017.
AI and Machine Learning Enhance VDI, But Cost is Still a Hang-Up
IDC’s Robert Young shares his insights into the VDI market in this TechTarget Q&A. Mr. Young follows the virtual desktop industry as an IDC research director and discusses the trends he’s been seeing, including a move away from in-house VDI and towards DaaS, as well as the role AI and machine learning might play in the future.
Favorite quote:
Where the growth seems to be moving toward is DaaS. It makes sense because we already run so many things from the cloud today, like modern [software-as-a-service] apps. Now, you are just running your legacy apps in a SaaS-like way. It makes sense for enterprises and smaller businesses.
Become an Office 365 VDI Licensing Pro
This high level quiz from TechTarget lets you test your knowledge of how Office 365 works with virtual desktops. See if you have a pretty good handle on the topic or if you need to brush up a bit more.
Want to Please Students? Going Virtual May be the Answer
Virtual desktops are a good fit for higher education for a few reasons:
- It gives students easier access to must-have applications for their programs of study
- It makes desktop management easier for small IT teams
- It’s an ideal way to account for fluctuating seasonal and class size demand
This article by eCampus News details how several colleges and universities are using the technology and where it comes in particularly handy.
Favorite quote:
The main driving factor for adoption was that I’m sort of a one-man show … Being able to consolidate everything that we offer into a VDI solution makes my world a lot easier to manage and also makes me a lot more effective overall.
While some universities are implementing in-house VDI, desktop as a service (DaaS) might be a better fit. Learn more >>
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