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IDC Technology Spotlight: The Evolution of Virtualized Desktops and Converged Infrastructure

IDC believes that the underlying infrastructure complexity and high costs, as well as the time to evaluate, are the core issues preventing centralized virtual desktop from becoming more widespread.

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IDC Analyst Connection: Centralized Virtual Desktop Eases PC Procurement, Deployment, and Management

IDC Senior Research Analyst, Ian Song, shares his perspective on the trend toward virtual desktops and the role of converged infrastructures in simplifying IT.

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Enterprise Strategy Group: Building a Stable Foundation for Today’s Virtual Data Centers

Widespread adoption of virtualization is rapidly revolutionizing the ways IT departments procure, implement, and operate technology. Though the potential gains achieved via infrastructure virtualization are impressive, they can’t occur without a highly automated and scalable environment with tight integration of server, storage, networking, virtualization, and management. Since component integration and validation is often a drain on IT resources, companies are turning to trusted vendors for pre-engineered, pre-integrated, and validated infrastructure solutions. VCE’s Vblock Infrastructure Platform is one such solution, offering best of breed technologies and ongoing innovation from VMware, Cisco, EMC, and Intel.

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IDC Analyst Connection: The Integrated Enterprise Infrastructure: A More Efficient and Cost-Effective Model for IT

Most of today's datacenters - those with a combination of physical and virtual servers - need a new approach to managing their IT assets. One such approach is enabled by integrated enterprise infrastructure platforms, which vendors are now offering in the marketplace. An integrated enterprise infrastructure platform enables the IT department to treat server, storage, and network infrastructure resources as pools to be assigned as needed to business services.

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