The first winner of the Parrot AR.Drone Giveaway is Kim Johansson from Sweden.
Ok here we are in beautiful San Fran for four days of virtualization frenzy, from virtual servers to virtual desktops, to virtual networks to virtual storage to virtual roads to actual clouds! it’s all things virtual week! Apparently except for the clouds, well after all we are in San Francisco.
In my previous post, I addressed how we can mitigate the impact of I/O storms on storage performance and the overall VDI end user experience. Today we are going to focus on how FalconStor solutions for VMware View can improve the data protection and recovery experience of IT administrators and end users. Through consolidation, VDIs have tremendously improved data protection of end user environments already: now all your system and user data resides in the datacenter on SAN or NAS infrastructure, which by itself prevents any data loss due to a laptop left on the train or a disk crashing (not that this ever happens, right!). This consolidation opens the way for great innovation when it comes to data protection and recovery processes and extends business continuity plans more effectively and in a scalable manner to desktop environments, which have always been a sore spot in business continuity planning.
Welcome to virtual reality! Now that virtualization is real, it’s time for us to talk about the reality behind its application. We are all excited about how virtualization is changing the IT world – providing better resource utilization, cost reductions, faster provisioning, automation, higher availability, and better mobility. It all sounds good – no it actually sounds great – and the technology is completely transforming the way we design data centers and define business processes. Now that we’ve seen the benefits that server virtualization brought to the table, the next logical application is desktop virtualization. The concept is bringing a new approach to enterprise-wide desktop deployments that is aimed at providing a better end-user and administrator experience than physical desktops: lowering the cost of acquisition and management while offering a highly scalable, easy to deploy, and fully protected desktop environment. Nevertheless, this consolidation raises new challenges in terms of compute resource allocation and granular data protection and recovery processes – this is where virtual reality starts.