One of the problems with VDI has always been RDP. Especially when connecting over a WAN. Key with VDI is, like Paul Maritz just stated in his keynote, is user experience. VMware just announced an alliance with Teradici to achieve a greater user experience for a true remote PC.
The protocol will be incorporated into a future release of the newly announced VMware View set of products that extend VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to include both server hosted virtual desktops and client virtual desktops that can run on any laptop or desktop computer. VMware View will provide a personalized view of users’ desktops from any device, anywhere, while providing centralized management of desktops in the datacenter.
For more info on Teradici’s PC over IP check their website.
That sounds interesting, but how is that going to solved the WAN issues, Teradici’s performance over low bandwidth and high latencys links is woeful
I don’t get it… what’s so new or different about this? take a look at HP RGS (hp.com) or the video demo of VDIWorks Video Over IP (vdiworks.com)
This has been done by VDI vendors previously. VMware seems to be behind the curve on this one.