Maybe companies will own their own clouds ?
So they will be in TOTAL CONTROL.
A retro wording for this scenario is that the company will have it's own mainframe.
At the end of the day ... the world is getting faster and faster.
A mainframe could update every person's workspace instantly.
A rollout of a windows change to 100,000 PCs might take months.
To me .... I think the connectivity is what will fuel the centralization of computing groups. People say the desktop could have "web services" but I just don't see that as practical.
In the end , a centrally controlled desktop grid isn't even an option unless every home is capable of being hardwired @ 10 Gbits/s ...at that point I would concede my berating of this idea and consider it a viable option worth half an argument at that time.
1. BS. That streaming video clip performed like it was a local desktop. At least be honest.
2. SATA2? Thats going away too. Besides, your storage wouldn't be local either. You'll have however much storage you need and can afford. Remember, video is rendered between the client and the monitor just like a PC renders to a screen. The only difference is that the network is transmitting the change pixels. The backend computer has the CPUs and GPUs (yes, can be more than one, also virtualized). The key difference is where your PC and monitor have a constancy video stream, the desktop server transmits changed pixels only into the video stream between your client and monitor. Its incredibly efficient.
3. No, not at all. I'm not going to get into a detailed discussion about caching, network accelerators and compressed data streams. I can tell you that there is a top 5 defense contractor who used this technology to support 3D modeling of entire aircraft carriers. You can virtually walk every deck, every catwalk, see every part of the carrier from tower to interior keel and its all done using VDI workstations. Nothing you do on a home computer will ever be as complex as this and it works, even for their remote users.
4. They use it because it saves money and increases productivity. It cuts their desktop budget by 90%. When you have 500,000 employees and a $800 per desktop, that is real money. And remember, the entire computer industry knows this is the direction of the industry, including the hardware and software vendors you use now. They are planning and developing to this direction. You either evolve or you will find that everyone has left you behind. Technology is not going to stagnate to anyone's comfort level.
1. Word to my country I was being honest. 1:1 desktop capture or it is crap, and I want to see that environment getting some exercise, I want to see the video being re sized in real-time, I want to see at random, movies from a library being started in real-time and then half a second after opening of the file seek to an hour in. I want to see how many tasks can be executed while that movie is playing and have the virtualization feel transparent by looks in said video. This video did nothing to prove any point in my eyes having experience with virtualization and thin clients a lil bit myself.
2. I need my personal data here and only here (here being the where in reference to my location) and that is non negotiable. Many people agree with me. I also don't want to have all my movies on a remote server so that I go over my isp's 250 gig a month fair usage policy in two weeks just from people in the house watching tv and listening to their music. There is nothing I can do about that as far as raising a cap. I would need a buisness class internet connection at home and for the speed I am connected at up and downstream currently it would be around $300/month + for that.
3. How much would it cost for me to 'rent' contractually that resource pool he required. And for that matter how much would it cost me to have an average of 12 gigs of ram allocated per machine for all 10 machines that I simultaniously run currently in my house @monthly for this virtualized desktop service.
And I also work in 3d on some of my computers so an aircraft carrier is not really anything different than the parts explosion for a machine which is complex and exact and also has to be able to be simulated in all modes and aspects of operation which which is resource heavy regardless. Creating a spline and a camera path is what it is and rendering is rendering no matter what the item in question is. Bigger size and higher density of detail raises the needs for rendering resource pool and that is obvious but what I am saying is how much is it going to cost me to replicate a beast pc with 64gigs of ram and a board powered by 2 Xeon E5-2690's? let alone the other machines I own.
4. On the matter of companies and computers and blah blah and all that....if companies purchase
x-to the-
y factor amount of computers, then it is safe to assume there is close to
x(y) users that work with those computers who also own at least one pc or mac and a laptop or mobile device otherwise. If you add in all of the rest of the people
(not included already in our tally) who use them for entertainment, gaming, design, photo finishing, coding, hacking, and just plain old screwin' around...you already have more computers than cooperate. I didn't even include people who use them for business be it on the internet selling a making and or selling tangible goods or the manufacturing industry utilizing computers in their workflow including mechanical control of individual apparatuses to piece tracking, quality inspection, office report generation, time-clock, payroll, inventory, and shipping. Yeah I think there is a couple of pc customers out there for a good while to come so it being built isn't even a question. VDI as a takeover of technology is pure hype for now in general for most people like many things in the past. People will still want and need computers at a high enough demand to have the need for companies to manufacture components for them.
