In the 1950s, there was a widespread expectation that by now we would all be driving flying cars as a matter of routine. With the advances in aeronautics in the 1940s and 1950s, it would not have been hard to imagine that an economic flying car that the general public would be happy to use would be common within far less than 50 years. The reality is that the flying car failed on both counts; personal flying never became economic, and flying, in any form, is a hobby for only a tiny portion of the population.
Back in 2005, you might have predicted that VDI, as desktop virtualization was then called, would be common today as a way of delivering corporate desktops. That has not happened for a number of interesting reasons, which point toward the real future of desktop virtualization and contrast markedly with the history of the flying car. In 2005, it was amazing that you could centrally virtualize a desktop at all. Virtualization was very new for servers and using a hypervisor on a server to host multiple client operating systems was a revolutionary idea that quickly caught peoples’ imaginations. While there were some good use-cases for those early deployments, it did not make sense to manage the majority of users this way. The problem was that simply moving the PC image into the data center did not save money and in many cases increased capital costs without decreasing operational costs. What was needed was a better way of managing PCs, rather than just a way of running them on hypervisors in the data center.
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