Blade Watch

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112607-server-based-computing.html

Client virtualization and blade PCs are gaining popularity, especially at the largest enterprises, but server-based computing is still the most popular alternative PC technology, a new Forrester Research report finds. About 18% of companies have implemented PC virtualization software, and another 8% plan to do so in the next year, the survey of 565 PC decision-makers in North America and Europe finds. Blade PC adoption is at 16% and server-based computing stands tall at 32%, Forrester reports.

Enterprises with at least 20,000 employees are the most likely to adopt these alternative PC technologies. “Large enterprises are in the most pain when it comes to managing and securing the PC environment – from both internal and external workers – and are therefore more willing to be early adopters in emerging technologies,” Forrester analyst Natalie Lambert writes in “Virtualization On The Client . . . Finally!”

Blade pcs are certainly gaining interest in several banks having spoken with colleagues. There are a mixture of issues surrounding this. For some IT departments jumping ahead, virtualizing the desktop might be the clear way forward, abstracting the desktop function to a virtual machine and removing/virtualizing as many of the applications from the desktop to a web/citrix web front end is the target. For the traditional bank or trading house though, the liability part might be the issue, with the blade technology, all we’re doing is simply in effect moving the HP trader pc into a smaller form factor and putting it downstairs. There’s no great re-direction or reconfiguration of the platform, the ‘liability’ part, the who did this and it’s rubbish part from a new technology can make the blade pc seem a bit easier. We’ll have to see it will all depend very much on your budget, your data center space and where you see the desktop going in your business.

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