Posted in E-Week on September 1st, 2010 by E-Week
VMware, Microsoft, Citrix and others have forged ahead in making virtual desktop infrastructure a viable choice for centrally managed, highly configurable use cases. Here are “three Cs” to consider when testing a virtual desktop product: components, capacity, capability. Components include both the services and underlying physical components, capacity is the number of virtual desktop instances that can be supported by your host systems and capability now includes feature-rich graphics and peripheral device support along with the usual desktop and line-of-business applications. -
1. License costs
In addition to the “three Cs” one of the most important testing criteria is
licensing costs. None of the competing vendors make it easy to do an apples-to-apples
comparison, so youll need to do some noodling to get a price per-desktop, per-year
figure. It makes a difference ho...
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