Krishna Subramanian

Today's Wall Street Journal had a nice article on the growing customer interest in virtual desktops. It did a great job of summarizing the key benefits of virtual desktops: lower PC operating & management costs, better security, and lower power consumption. Gartner was quoted as saying, "desktop virtualization is the hottest trend among our customers". All of this is wonderful, and very exciting. And, we completely agree.  But...ok, you didn't really expect there to be no 'but', did you?... the article went on to say that adoption is still largely at the pilot stages.  Why?  Cost was cited as the reason: "Vendors say customers won't save much initially buying thin clients instead of PCs because they still have to buy just as many software licenses and need to spend more for servers and storage. The biggest savings for most companies come in ongoing operating costs."... (more)

Why VDI will take off in 2010: is it about servers or desktops?

I was recently asked by CRN magazine to comment on whether I agreed with VMware that VDI is poised to take off in 2010.  I said yes, but for different reasons than VMware. You can read the article here. As a server virtualization vendor, VMware sees VDI as an extension to server consolidation, which is why they believe VDI will be driven by companies that have already adopted virtualization. But we see a much larger opportunity for VDI - it addresses a desktop problem that every desktop IT administrator is interested in solving, assuming they can make the math work.  Desktop IT wan... (more)

Study: Most VDI proof-of-concepts fail, cost cited as key reason

There is a lot of speculation about whether 2010 will be the year VDI hits its stride.  We all know intuitively there is a huge market for desktop virtualization given the large installed base of PCs that need to be refreshed - the questions are, how quickly will this market adopt desktop virtualization and is the technology addressing needs sufficiently  to drive broad market acceptance? Our point-of-view, from having worked with VDI over the past decade, is that the demand for virtual desktops is real, but for widespread adoption two things are needed: the technology needs to b... (more)

Kaviza Takes Investment from Citrix

We announced last week that we took an investment from Citrix. You can read about the investment in our press release and the media articles that covered it.  Why did we choose this investment?  Quite simply, because we felt this would help us best serve our goals of  leading the market in making desktop virtualization affordable and simple. The investment by Citrix validates Kaviza's business model and architectural design.  Our grid architecture fundamentally changes VDI economics by eliminating the expensive infrastructure costs that make current approaches tough to digest.  ... (more)

What Lies Ahead in Desktop Virtualization: 2011 Predictions

We recently wrote a piece for VMBlog's series predicting what lies ahead in 2011 for Desktop virtualization. Here's an excerpt of the article - what do you think? Are we on the right track? 2011 - Predictions of what lies ahead in Desktop Virtualization The year 2011 is going to be very exciting for desktop virtualization. Why? Because several trends that have been building steam in the last couple of years are joining forces to create a big splash.  While no one knows exactly what the future holds, here are my predictions, derived directly and indirectly from numerous real user ... (more)