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HPC ace grills vendor over virtual desktop flavours: What about the POWER USERS?

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HPC blog The idea that you can run a bunch of user desktop sessions on servers isn’t new. The benefits promised by desktop virtualisation are pretty profound, including large reductions in enterprise tech costs, better support for users, improved security and even increased user happiness.

That last promise, the increased user happiness, has been difficult to keep – particularly when you’re dealing with "power users" who use a wide range of demanding applications. Data centres would also run into trouble when trying to scale virtual desktop infrastructure efficiently and economically.

However, times change, and new technology has come along to make it possible, and much easier, to deliver solid quality of desktop service to any users – regardless of their demands.

At the GPU Technology Conference 2014 (GTC '14) in San Jose, I spent some time on the show floor with Geoff Murase (VMware group product manager), on VMware's approach VDI.

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In the video, we talk about the firm's "desktop in a cloud" DaaS service and its plans to roll it out to public clouds. It now has a new mechanism that supports NVIDIA GPUs to provide full 3D graphics to users, whether they’re in public or private cloud environments.

It’s only a quick video chat, but if you want to dive into the guts of VMware’s VDI solutions, you can check out one or both of its GTC’14 sessions.

You can either stream or download these sessions for free here.

There’s plenty more VDI-oriented content from GTC’14, just scroll down the page on the link above to see it. ®

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