IT 2.0 :  Next Generation IT infrastructures

I found your client consolidation solutions interesting and very useful.  I'm interested in why you do not list OS or Application streaming as client consolidation solution.

I think that OS and Application streaming solutions (i.e. Ardence, Softgrid, Citrix application streaming, and others) should also be listed.

What are your thoughts?
Fred
fgonce@austin.rr.com

Fred,

thanks for your comments. Appreciated.

I believe that OS and Application streaming are VERY interesting ways to complement the CCON scenarios I have tried to outline in my table. As a matter of fact I see a scenario where you would use the technologies you mentioned to create stateless virtual machines that get booted / allocated / provisioned on the-fly (basically virtually) instead of installing a real OS and real applications in each of the virtual machine minidisks.

However, in this context, I consider this a step 2. First I want to consolidate my desktops (through shared services, virtual clients, workstation blades etc etc) and then I want to optimize the way I manage these Datacenter entities through OS and Application virtual provisioning.

I appreciate very well that someone might be interested in doing step 1 and step 2 at the same time. Or maybe someone would be interested in doing step 2 ONLY and not step 1 (i.e. they want to stick using standard distributed physical desktops and optimize them through OS and Application streaming).

So, to answer your question, I believe that the 3 CCON scenarios in my table and the technologies you have outlined are two different things. Two complementary things. You can do either one or the other or do both (at the same time or one after the other). This doesn't mean I don't want to create a similar table for these technologies but I am just trying to understand whether I should do this integrating it into the current CCON documentation or if I should do something separate.

Does it make sense?

Thanks a lot again for your comments.

Massimo.