However, customers want some additional options. Now of course the View client can run on this category of system and the user experience will be just like VDI with a thin client. I’m referring to so called “thick clients”, physical devices with enough capacity to run your virtual desktop Desktop PCs and Laptops executing View managed VMs locally. Today, I’m going to talk about how we are broadening our solutions by extending this desktop vision to a wider range of devices and use cases. View and our VDI solution directly embraces this vision and recently with View 4 brought the richest remote desktop experience to market with the PCoIP protocol.
In it, I talked about the value of isolating all aspects of a user’s desktop from the underlying hardware that executes it. A few months ago, I posted an inaugural blog about VMware’s overall vision for the desktop.
