Introducing new guy need not take forever

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Network-delivered computing company Teradici and Dell have collaborated to add Teradici’s PC-over-IP, PCoIP, technology to select Dell Precision workstations.

The PCoIP technology will be integrated with Dell’s Precision R5400 workstation and FX100 remote access product for engineering, product design, animation, and digital imaging.

With the addition of the PCoIP technology, Dell said its Precision platform will offer high resolution, full frame 3D graphics and HD media, with full USB interoperability and secure access for remote workstation users, to enable centrally managed access between the high-performance workstation in the datacenter and a stateless desktop device.

I remain a big fan of the Teradici solution, I saw a demo at the blade systems insight conference and it looks like a great solution for desktop virtualization. It will be interesting to see how Dell can utilize this in the desktop virtualization, trader desktop areas - could we see the Dell virtual trader workstation solution? The Dell blade pc?

The benefits of the virtual desktop in terms of security (hardware and software) as well as the operational benefits of a centralized solution can be very impressive. I wonder if this is the next big thing not just in the city (where we talk about the traders, the developers with their several pcs), but the small/medium business. Where adding a new team member, rebuilding that desktop might simply mean rebooting, deploying a new virtual machine, not the current physical deploy pc, install Windows image, configure for user and everything else. Where bringing a new user on stream might take 30 minutes rather than days - those conversations I’ve had with CIO’s, I can bring a new guy on site in days, but it might take me weeks to set him up, to get him a working computer and email account.

Could it not all be scripted, all part of the click to deploy new user function - deploy a new virtual machine, and run the configure user scripts?