Chris Preimesberger of eweek.com has a good report from VMWorld this week in San Francisco. He got to the attend the IBM announcement for something they call the Public Desktop Cloud. What the heck is a Public Desktop Cloud? Glad you asked.
From an IBM Data Center
The Public Desktop Cloud, as I grok it, is a step beyond the virtual private desktop made famous by Citrix and others, not because it uses new technology, but because of its cost and ownership structure. “This new service is for customers who want to rent the proposition of virtualized desktops, without having up-front capital costs,” said Carl Kraenzel, IBM CTO of end-user services.
Since there is no minimum number of desktops to rent the service, it means that anyone or any firm can have their cloud and eat it too, without writing a check from the CapEx side. And IBM has signed up to look after the infrastructure side, an area for which they have some solid chops.
This should lead to just a ton of cloud experiments, at the least, from the mid sized firms.
Read more here.
Tags: cloud, IBM, Public Desktop Cloud
