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Early signs for 2011 are of a recovering economy, however cost cutting for many and cost containment for all are still very firmly driving our strategic thinking in IT terms….  IT enabled service delivery is currently undergoing a period of huge transformational change – but this shouldn’t just be about renegotiating contracts and shuffling the pack of suppliers. Effective technology deployment is about automating as much as possible to identify new ways of doing things – consequently, we have seen a rapid acceleration of the adoption of virtualisation and cloud technologies…

Organisations everywhere are struggling to balance ever increasing technology complexity against ever decreasing budgets. Employees expect, and often need to work from anywhere, from any device. In our “always on” society it is very common now for employees to use personal devices such as smartphones, netbooks, tablets and home computers as part of their work arsenal – and this convergence of consumer technology and consumer behaviours with the corporate environment add to the complexity.

So how do you provide a consistent, standardised desktop experience for employees who need to work with multiple different devices, with multiple different form factors, connectivity options, processors and operating systems?

The answer: Virtualisation…. and the abstraction of the desktop from any one physical device.

The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, is on the radar of most CIO’s and IT Director’s and has to be one of the hottest topics around at the moment. However, most of the evidence including the pulse point of the room at the NCC’s recent conference – Maintaining Service Levels with Reduced Budgets, November 2010… the reality is that less than 10% of corporate enterprises have virtualised their desktop environment.

So if the economic climate is tough and cost savings paramount, the technology mature enough, just what are the issues inhibiting VDI adoption?

The Authors

Jason Meers is a senior consultant at One Planet Computing and has been working in Server virtualisation and Desktop virtualisation since 2001. He has been working with the NCC to develop thin client solutions and best practice guidelines since 2005, and also writes articles for ITadviser on low-carbon computing and Green IT.

He has worked as an independent advisor to the Cabinet Office and the Conservative party, and reviewed the “Greening Government ICT” policy, as well as co-writing the current Conservative IT strategy around Open Standards, Open Source and software re-use in the public sector.

After spending several years working as Head of IT for a group of UK companies, Jason became a technical architect and product specialist working in the public sector for Serco PLC, before taking his current role at One Planet Computing in 2009.

One Planet Computing is a Green IT company that helps organisations to reduce the environmental impact of IT equipment, by extending the working life of existing computers, laptops and legacy thin clients through the use of modern Virtual Desktop technologies from Microsoft, Citrix and VMware.

One Planet Computing have a range of products that can be used to reduce energy usage, reduce carbon and as a direct benefit, help you reduce day-to-day running costs.

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