{"id":247,"date":"2007-11-27T18:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T23:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=247"},"modified":"2007-11-27T18:23:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T23:23:32","slug":"desktop-virtualization-the-next-it-fad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2007\/11\/desktop-virtualization-the-next-it-fad\/","title":{"rendered":"Desktop Virtualization: The Next IT Fad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I wrote a couple of articles related to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (for the articles, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?cat=20\">VDI\/Desktop Management Category<\/a>).&#160; The main idea is that, by running desktops within VMs, you can solve a lot of IT management challenges.&#160; I&#8217;m not sold on the idea, and it appears that I&#8217;m not alone.&#160; Hannah Drake, Editor at SearchServerVirtualization.com, asks <a href=\"http:\/\/servervirtualization.blogs.techtarget.com\/2007\/11\/21\/client-side-virtual-desktop-technology-unnecessary\/\">Client-side virtual desktop technology: Unnecessary?<\/a>.&#160; The article quotes some interesting points from an IT consulting company.&#160; I added my $.02 in the comments section.&#160; Feel free to comment here, as well: Is VDI a fad, or is it a real solution for current IT problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, I wrote a couple of articles related to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) (for the articles, see the VDI\/Desktop Management Category).&#160; The main idea is that, by running desktops within VMs, you can solve a lot of IT management challenges.&#160; I&#8217;m not sold on the idea, and it appears that I&#8217;m not alone.&#160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vm-desktop-virtualization-vdi","category-vm-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}