LAS VEGAS — IT has to overcome several obstacles to ensure a well-oiled VDI deployment. One of the most common hurdles is to justify a company’s investment in virtualized computing.
VDI shops deal with issues such as getting legacy applications to work, updating from old product versions or, lately, migrating to the Windows 10 operating system. But before any of that comes into play, IT has to calculate the VDI ROI and whether it’s worth the capital an organization sinks into it, said Jed Ayres, CEO at IGEL North America in Cincinnati.
Most companies aren’t willing to write a blank check, so IT has to find ways to balance the budget, added Keith Qualter of IT consulting firm XenTegra, based in Huntersville, N.C.
“One of the big issues that people have is justifying that first entry into desktop and app virtualization,” he said. “Often, the endpoint device is the area that we target to find some free capital.”