{"id":13155,"date":"2012-07-18T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2012-07-18T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:03:00","slug":"finally-some-sense-gartner-says-cost-savings-of-vdi-are-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Finally Some Sense \u2013 Gartner Says \u201cCost Savings\u201d Of VDI Are Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I\u2019ve talked about how <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=11834\">VDI makes no financial sense<\/a> once or twice before.&#160; The Register has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2012\/07\/18\/virtual_hosted_desktop_gartner\/\">story<\/a> on how Gartner has analysed the costs of implementing and owning VDI.&#160; Long story short: it costs as much if not more (I say much more) than buying and owning PCs.&#160; The reason to implement VDI isn\u2019t simplified management, it isn\u2019t reduced costs.&#160; It is the side effects of centralisation such as easier data access and stricter security.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Personally I think RDS Session Hosts (Terminal Servers) are a much more cost effective way of getting these same results, possibly with App-V to prevent application silos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:56f1e3ad-0fc5-47be-8289-6dc51ef860a0\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Remote+Desktop+Services\" rel=\"tag\">Remote Desktop Services<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/VDI\" rel=\"tag\">VDI<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Virtualisation\" rel=\"tag\">Virtualisation<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I\u2019ve talked about how VDI makes no financial sense once or twice before.&#160; The Register has a story on how Gartner has analysed the costs of implementing and owning VDI.&#160; Long story short: it costs as much if not more (I say much more) than buying and owning PCs.&#160; The reason to implement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finally Some Sense \u2013 Gartner Says \u201cCost Savings\u201d Of VDI Are Fiction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[188,102,195],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-remote-desktop-services","tag-remote-desktop-services","tag-vdi","tag-virtualisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}