Desktop virtualization and VDI solutions have the potential to grow beyond the numbers enjoyed by today's server virtualization market, but to do so, companies need to continue to enhance these offerings in a number of ways. One company doing just that is VDIworks. The company just released its latest technology offering, VideoOverIP 1.0.
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To find out more, I spoke with VDIworks' CEO Amir Husain.
InfoWorld: The market seems to have plenty of desktop remoting protocols already. Why did you decide to release another one?
VDIworks: That's a very fair question. Ideally, if there was an open protocol on the market with excellent performance that was not tied to a particular brand of thin client or a specific hypervisor or server, we would have loved to simply leverage it. Unfortunately, that was not the case. Most protocols have vendor tie-ins that don't just become an issue for customers, they are in fact an impediment to VDI adoption. As you may already know, VDIworks' Virtual Desktop Platform, which is our end-to-end physical and virtual management solution, brokers over a half-dozen different protocols. That list includes HP RGS, PC-over-IP, ClearCube TDA, Microsoft RDP, Wyse TCX, and others. All of these protocols solve specific problems in specific environments, but they are either limited in their reliance on particular brands of thin clients, server hardware, or hypervisors. It's either that or they don't deliver high-end performance for things like multimedia playback.
So we felt we had to solve the problem in a platform independent fashion and remove this hurdle in the way to broader VDI adoption.
InfoWorld: I agree platform independence is important, but talk about some of the other aspects of VideoOverIP that are different to competing products.
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