VMware is looking to create new standards for building virtualized desktop computing.
The Palo Alto, Calif., virtualization vendor is launching new
services May 19 that are geared toward helping IT departments design,
create and eventually deploy an entire virtualized desktop environment.
This group of services will be offered under VMware Professional
Services and is meant to work with the company’s Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure suite, which creates a virtual environment in the data
center, where administrators can manage an entire fleet of corporate
desktops.
The VMware service offerings come at a time when IDC found the interest in creating a virtualized desktop environment
growing among IT departments; however, the costs and complexity of such
the changes, such as concerns about operating system licenses, mean
that that many are only experimenting with the technology in a limited
way.
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