Virtualization Review

Partner's Guide to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

An RCP Solution Spotlight on a joint effort by Microsoft and Citrix to bring a VDI solution to the market. By Scott Bekker.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a special subset of desktop virtualization, itself a subset of virtualization in general. While virtualization separates hardware from software, Microsoft's overall virtualization approaches fit into four broad buckets:

• server virtualization
• desktop virtualization
• presentation virtualization
• application virtualization

One of the biggest areas of emerging virtualization opportunity appears to be desktop virtualization. Research firm IDC forecasts the desktop virtualization market will be worth $1.7 billion by 2011.

Analysts at Gartner Inc. project that 50 million desktops will be virtualized in just a few years. Microsoft and Citrix Systems Inc. are working together on a joint go-to-market strategy for partners to take VDI solutions to customers.

Find out more about the strategy and how to take advantage of the opportunity in this special report.

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