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Re:The Windows desktop is dying by bb88 on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:23AM (#37030108)
What's funny I think is that if you are, in fact a multibillion corporation, the cost of a VDI vs a laptop for your employees is a rounding error.
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Re:The Windows desktop is dying by warrenm on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:32AM (#37033527)
If you're shortsighted enough to think the only "cost" is the device, yeah - it's a "rounding error"

But the TCO of employee connectivity is not merely "the device"

It's everything else that goes into it

Want a standard developer environment? Create an appropriate VDI instance

Want a standard CAD environment? Create an appropriate VDI instance

Want a standard xyz environment? Create an appropriate VDI instance

Then, based on the user role (at the moment of login), spin-up and connect to the proper image

This also allows someone who does two jobs to connect to multiple VDIs based off work needs, and do the 'proper' work on each one

Sure some of this is about data governance ... but most is about enabling end users to be as productive as possible

Updates? Done offline in offhours just to the master image(s)

New version of $OS$ needs to be deployed/trialed? Build/update one image at a time, verify, then push out as the new Golden Master

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Re:The Windows desktop is dying by bb88 on Saturday August 12, 2023 @09:12PM (#37105685)
Nothing you're saying is incorrect, but once they moved people to VDI's they then discovered they can cut costs by oversubscribing a cluster.

That CAD program that needs 16 threads for someone to be productive? But if the cluster is oversubscribed you'll get maybe 30% of the performance you need.

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