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Last updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009

VMware said its VMware View has become the world’s leading desktop virtualization client for enterprise applications, with more than one million seats estimated across 7,000 customers. By moving from a device-centric to user-centric computing model, VMware said, IT departments can embrace diverse user requirements and still maintain strong security and compliance while lowering overall costs. VMware View has been widely adopted in the financial services, health care, education, manufacturing and telecommunications industries, where organizations are benefiting from strong total cost of ownership (TCO) savings, said VMware Vice President Jocelyn Goldfein. “The first wave of virtual desktop adoption came from customers driven to address security and compliance requirements, followed by a second wave focused on TCO,” Goldfein said. “The next wave of adoption is being driven by the shift from device- to user-centric computing — where users have freedom of access to their applications and data from any device and location and IT can deliver desktops as a managed service.” Wave of the Future A virtual desktop means the traditional desktop environment is not installed on or coupled to the device the user is interacting with, said Forrester Research analyst Natalie Lambert. “More generally, desktop virtualization is defined as a computing environment, consisting of an operating system, applications and associated data, that is abstracted from the user’s PC,” Lambert said. “After speaking to organizations looking at desktop and application virtualization, we know that client virtualization is not just an emerging trend, it’s the future of the corporate PC.” Virtual desktop offerings come in two flavors. With local desktop virtualization, the desktop executes in a protected environment on the user’s PC. By contrast, with hosted desktop virtualization the desktop environment executes in a protected environment on data-center servers, Lambert said. “The virtual-machine bubble runs directly on a data-center server alongside other virtual-machine…

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