VDI Market: Huge, But Stalled Due to Costs

Kaviza eliminates VDI cost and complexity

  • $65B+ Market. Desktop Virtualization is estimated by Gartner to reach $65.7B by 2013, representing over 40% of the overall PC market. It is easy to see why the analysts are optimistic about this space – VDI addresses the management issues with PCs, and there are over 1.1B PCs worldwide.
  • But VDI adoption has stalled, cost cited as key reason. Despite high customer interest, the VDI market has not yet hit its stride. Customer surveys and analyst studies from various sources point to cost as a major barrier to adoption. “Price is still a significant barrier to [VDI] adoption,"says Chris Wolf, analyst at Burton Group in Computerworld, November 2009.

    “Most VDI proof of concepts are failing – the high cost of hardware and software infrastructure to run VDI is often given as a reason. From the IT perspective, customers must invest in new data center server clusters, storage, and software to provide the equivalent of the total desktop computer power they want to serve. In fact, customers must replace cheap desktop computing and storage with expensive data center computing cycles. This is a major upfront capital expenditure that is difficult to justify in a tough economy.” – Randy Eckel, March 2010.

  • Kaviza's grid architecture eliminates the VDI cost barrier. Kaviza eliminates the cost and complexity of VDI with its patent-pending grid architecture. All the functionality needed to provision and manage virtual desktops is contained in the Kaviza VDI-in-a-boxTM virtual appliance that can be run on a grid of inexpensive commodity servers, and scaled as needs grow. Kaviza delivers immediate ROI on deployments of as little as 25 desktops and up. Since desktops are often bought in phases, Kaviza delivers ROI at every phase while fitting within customers' existing budgets.

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