Desktop virtualization pioneer runs into early bugs

摘要

For the past six months, our offices have been part of the brave new world of virtualization. Not of servers, storage or networks, but of the next-generation desktop. The rationale for the decision to virtualize the desktop was to offer the staff operating system and application flexibility while maintaining governance, manageability and control of the corporate environment. In hindsight, our intent was correct, but our timing - to say the least - was a little off. If one were to look up the definition of desktop virtualization in Wikipedia, one would assume I am addressing a server-centric or thin-client-computing model in which we host and centrally manage desktop virtual machines in the data center while giving users a full PC desktop experience. Wrong!