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IBM Claims VDI Breakthrough

IBM Claims it's Mad A Breakthrough that Will Accelerate the Spread of the Virtual Desktop By Slashing VDI Storage Requirements
By Maureen O'Gara
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September 25, 2008 10:00 PM EDT
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IBM, the company that invented virtualization back in the mainframe’s Pleistocene period, claims it’s made a breakthrough that will accelerate the spread of the virtual desktop by slashing VDI storage requirements by as much as 80%.

The widgetry is supposed to encourage users to move to the cloud.

IBM contends that virtual desktop deployments have been hampered by the cost and complexity of managing storage, which it describes as one of the most expensive hardware components of any virtual desktop environment.

However, the new IBM Virtual Storage Optimizer (VSO), which will work with, say, VMware, is supposed to change all that.

It’s based on an algorithm developed by IBM Research and is supposed to “dramatically” reduce the large physical storage requirements associated with storing virtual images.

It’s also supposed to create new desktop images in seconds or at least minutes, a process that IBM says has been known to take a half-hour.

Published September 25, 2008 – Reads 15,982
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Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025. Twitter: @MaureenOGara

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