Past, Present and Future of VDI: A Discussion with Citrix and Microsoft

Podcast Summary:

Length: 25:32

• Introduction
• Sumit Dhawan, Citrix VP of Product Marketing for Desktop Virtualization Products & Manlio Vecchiet, Microsoft Director of Product Management - Windows Server Marketing Team (:10)
• VDI landscape – past, present, future - for Citrix, Microsoft and VMware (:37)
• VMware’s VDI approach - the right one or not? How Microsoft/Citrix approach differs (4:12)
• Where VDI fits into IT’s future, and the future of the virtualization industry (7:12)
• Is VDI – and its promise of huge ROI in a few years – the answer to “do more with less”? (10:39)
• Relationship between Citrix and Microsoft and how each company’s opinions on VDI implementation differ (15:05)
• Are there areas of competition? (18:43)
• What's next for Citrix and Microsoft together (20:21)
• Close