Dell EMC And VMware Driving Potential Inflection Point In VDI Adoption

In all of Dell's announcements of Dell EMC and VMwareVMW -0.63% in Dell, EMC World exemplified the synergy of Dell's acquisition of EMC and closer collaboration with VMware: Dell EMC VDI Complete. We note this in our event coverage, but we want to come up with an offer that could drive a turning point in a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) market that has performed very poorly in comparison to its technical merits to allow cost savings of IT and strengthen security control.

Dell EMC VDI completes the entire stack of hardware and software into a simple purchase, deployment, management, and scalability solution supported directly by a single enterprise OEM. As much as that may seem like an obvious supply structure, Dell EMC is the first to offer a distinct end-to-end solution. In addition to that, it is now offering a monthly cost per user consumption model as an alternative to the existing prepaid prepaid model. I will cover the key points and implications. We write a more detailed product analysis in an article here.

VDI Adoption Barriers and Implementation Challenges

To understand why these supply enhancements might be so shocking, it is worth reviewing what VDI has had again for so long. VDI moved through the hype cycle of textbook technology culminating in the 2009-2010 time frame with more adoption of enterprise technology than the technology was mature enough to support. Among the biggest challenges, it was difficult to plan costs and capacity, challenge implementation, suffer performance bottlenecks that plagued users and was difficult to manage with distributed support across a variety of vendors. The entire effort was a challenge for the customer by uniting the spectrum technology of infrastructure and software vendors for a workload with an unknown performance profile. There were strong swings in resource utilization during the workday that needed to be handled without any part of the pile becoming a performance bottleneck or administrative pain point.

Given the technical complexity of the implementation and the risk of impact on user productivity that could drive additional resource purchase requirements and / or force the reduction of the addressable user base, the resulting business problem was that it was difficult to project Reliably return on investment and achieve Once implemented. This delay in adopting a decade of a clear opportunity to improve the control of IT resources to operate more safely and cut a large amount of cost wastage.

Single Vendor Simplicity

The first key to addressing each of the challenges has been a reliable and consolidated offering of VDI batteries. EMC Dell VDI Completes pre-packaged, packaged computing, storage, networking, and software packages to facilitate deployment planning and management through the VDI application stack using standard VMware management tools. There have been OEM VDI packages around for years that purport to absolve IT from having to solve the riddle of the purchase and configuration of an optimal stack of components, but even for those that were tested between vendors at a profiled performance level without Allow customization, no OEM supplier of the company could be behind what was implemented.