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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/desktop/news/index.cfm?newsid=3871

Large PC users are increasingly looking to VDI – virtual desktop infrastructure, which uses VMWare to host virtual PCs – as an alternative to current server-based computing approaches such as Citrix and Windows Terminal Server (WTS), says thin client developer Igel Technology.

Igel has added VDI support to its thin clients and also to a PC conversion card, which it claimed allows old PCs to be redeployed as diskless workstations. The supplier said this means that customers can deploy virtual PCs to the desktop for as little as £162 a user – or £95 if reusing an old PC.

Check out this article, the interesting thing with this is that a phased approach can be used to successfully virtualize the desktop, that I can make the existing desktop pc, my thin client, and as the pc reaches the end of life stage, deploy a new thin client/pc as appropriate.

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