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You can always tell when a technology is about to go mainstream; the cutting edge starts to blur the lines with competing or related technologies. PCs become multimedia devices. Cell phones become … well, you name it.

The same seems to be happening with the highly praised virtual desktop. While it was once viewed as virtualization’s answer to the thin client, a new generation of systems is hitting the market claiming to usher in everything from fully centralized computing to the “virtualized workspace.”

There’s a lot of talk about virtualization, how people are deploying their virtual infrastructure, if it’s time to make the desktop virtual etc. What you need to decide within your environment, your business where the key benefits, key drivers are for you.

Virtualization of the desktop certainly is the way forward from a support standpoint, and possibly in terms of energy efficiency, but we need to establish what elements of the IT service we want, what we need and how far we want to go, Citrix everything? Or have virtual desktops for each user? Does each user need a pc? A virtual instance? Can we not do everything they need online in some way?

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