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VMware has outlined a new way to do desktop virtualisation (VDI) that aims to greatly reduce the amount of storage required to deliver desktops from the data centre. Many current VDI arrangements require each virtual desktop to be stored as a discrete virtual disk. By the time organisations get to hundreds or thousands of such …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Citrix??

    So basically it's Citrix XenAPP then?

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      Re: Citrix??

      More like Unidesk (Tom Rose from Unidesk should comment). I saw him speak at the Nimble booth at VMworld.

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        Re: Citrix??

        I think so. It is introducing layers into a disk.

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  2. Joe Greer

    in 10-20 years...

    we will have the same feature in Hyper-V, until then MS will say we really don't need that feature.

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