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VMware takes big lead on Citrix and Microsoft with VDI
A new, somewhat independent, survey report is released by VIBriefing today. The survey is sponsored by Virsto Software, who makes storage and VDI solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V (not yet supporting Citrix, but this is announced that they will).
According to the survey, 65% of respondents use VMware as their hypervisor for their VDI projects, versus 12% using Citrix and 8% using Hyper-V. That seems like a huge lead for VMware, which somewhat surprises me as Citrix originally was/is the leader in the Desktop space.
According to the survey, 46% of VDI projects are stalled due to cost and performance issues. I guess after so many years of VDI software development, no solution on the market offers an easy answer 
Read the full findings on Virsto’s website
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about 1 year ago
Of course the 65% VMware hypervisor versus 12% Citrix hypervisor (i.e. XenServer) doesn’t also imply the same for the VDI platform itself (i.e. Citrix XenDesktop versus VMware View). The latter is not reported by Virsto as far as I can seen. I assume however that Citrix is still the leader in THAT space.
about 1 year ago
According to their infographic, View is the leader with 50% of the desktops compared to XenDesktop with only 21%.
about 1 year ago
Great post! Interesting figures but not surprising. VMware view 5 has come a long way since it’s predecessors and expect some serious VDI adoption with VCE’s FastPath solution – it’s real life plug and play VDI deployment at the click of a button.
about 1 year ago
I agree with Bert,
survey say only what hypervisor is used for VDI, not what VDI platform is used.
Maybe today View has more market, but XenDesktop is miles and miles ahead and with VDI-in-a-Box gap will be filled in few month…
about 1 year ago
VDI-in-a-Box provides antoher alternative in delivering hosted desktops. Most CSPs provide a hosted desktop using XenApp to present a Windows Server session with a Windows 7 look and feel. For customers that are looking for a fully personalised desktop, then VDI-in-a-Box provides a low cost, scalable platform. As Windows 7 VDA is not available under SPLA, the workaround is to provide VDA licenses through OPEN and host these on dedicated servers which coincendentally is the ideal way to build out a VDI-in-a-Box environment.The key to delivering the right desktop to your customer is to explore the options while remaining compliant mix, match & grow.Chris N