Everything new is old again - VDI
January 14th, 2009 by p1, Filed under: Commentary, Culture, OT
Argh! YASMA! (Yet Another Stupid Marketing Acronym.) VDI pops up in my email. And when I search for it (using two kettles worth of carbon emissions), what do I find? “Virtual desktop infrastructure.” In other words, thin client, or cloud computing, or just plain virtualization.
It is to weep.
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Nah. VDI is more than just thin clients under virtualization, possibly in a cloud.
I’ve been running LTSP with FreeNX in a Xen guest for 3 years. That’s not VDI.
VDI adds some new functionality, such as a connection server (services brokerage) and linked clones (differencing disks). That’s just the beginning.