VDI Versus Server Based Computing Desktops: Desktop Delivery Options
Tuesday, 13 February 2007 by Michel Roth
This is the next article in the series of six articles written by Brian Madden on the subject of VDI and related matter(s): "While virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as a concept is not new, it's new that so many people today are thinking about how and where it can be used. In particular, they're evaluating how it compares and contrasts to other methods of delivering desktops to users, namely server-based computing and traditional local desktop architectures.

In this article, we'll look at VDI versus server-based computing (SBC) technologies such as Citrix Presentation Server or Microsoft terminal server. In part one of this series, I presented an overview of VDI.

The SBC approach to delivering a desktop is kind of interesting now, because in many ways SBC technologies have been delivering SBC-like solutions for over ten years. In fact, Citrix didn't even introduce seamless application publishing until 1999, so everything before that was full remote desktops. Of course, we didn't know to call it "VDI" back then, but that's what it was."

Be sure to read the rest here.

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Brian Madden Interviews Citrix's Brian Nason And Sumit Dhawan About VDI And Project Trinity (21 December 2006)
SBC,VDI And Application Streaming (26 March 2007)
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VMware Virtualization And VDI Webinars (26 September 2006)
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Providing Desktops To Users: Centralized Virtual Machines Or Terminal Server Desktops? (25 October 2005)
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