The P25 also supports wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n in single and dual bands, as well as Fibre SPF optical connectivity for use in government environments that require secure protection from "sniffing" of data over wireless networks, he said.
The P25 supports 2,560 x 1,600 resolution on a single screen or 1,920 x 1,200 resolution across two screens, which McNaught said is higher than high-definition video. The first is the Dell Wyse P25 for 3D solid modeling, video editing and CAD/CAM applications, McNaught said. The third is the new Dell DVS Enterprise - VMware Mobile Secure Desktop Reference Architecture, which partners can use to add session persistence and mobility across mobile devices to access personal desktops.ĭell is backing these reference architectures with the introduction of two new zero-client devices designed for VMware View. It includes technology from Imprivata, a Lexington, Mass.-based developer of single sign-on solutions for the medical field, which allows doctors and nurses to log on to virtual desktops with the touch of their badge without waiting, McNaught said. The second part is Dell Mobile Clinical Computing - VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care, a reference architecture for medical environments. "If there are 200 users, customers can glue together four vStart 50s," he said. NEXT: Dell's New VDI Reference Architecture And EqualLogic Storageīoth vStart solutions are modular and can be combined for larger installations, Dell's McNaught said. Developed for VMware View VDI environments, they include the vStart 50, a pre-configured solution for SMBs or departments with up to 50 users, and vStart 1000, which was developed for enterprises with up to 1,000 users.
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These include vStart for VDI Reference Architecture, part of the company's vStart series of complete solutions for IT deployments. "Now that Dell, Wyse and EqualLogic are all together, we can bring together a complete solution," McNaught said.ĭell's new reference architecture includes several initiatives that allow solution providers to more easily deploy VDI than in the past, McNaught said. Jeff McNaught, executive director of marketing and chief strategist for the Wyse business unit of Dell, said that several acquisitions, including that of Wyse, storage vendor EqualLogic and other technologies, enables the company to deliver "end-to-end, best-of-breed VDI solutions." "I believe that virtual desktops are gaining traction not because they are the best technical choice, in many use cases they aren’t, but because virtual desktops bring benefits to the employee that are hard to measure," he wrote.įor Dell and HP, that means increasing zero-client performance while providing reference architectures that make it easier for business and their solution providers to deploy VDI.ĭell's VDI reference architecture stems from Dell's acquisition earlier this year of Wyse, one of the best-known names in the thin-client and zero-client industry. That growth will come from IT organizations that ensure that employees understand the benefits of VDI and not on the technical merits of VDI, Berger wrote.
Gunnar Berger, a research director at analyst firm Gartner, wrote in an April blog post that Gartner expects virtual desktops could have a market penetration of 8 percent to 10 percent by 2015. The two companies' moves to beef up their zero-client product line along with the introduction of reference architectures for VDI comes at a time when VDI is becoming an increasingly important alternative to traditional client architectures in IT organizations.
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The Dell and HP moves come a week before the opening of the VMworld conference, where vendors across a wide swathe of the IT industry will meet to display hardware and software products for virtualized and cloud environments. Dell and Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled new zero-client devices and reference architectures for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) implementations.ĭell on Monday also unveiled new versions of its midrange EqualLogic storage arrays with a new SSD tier for improving the performance of virtual desktop deployments.