I, along with 17,000 of my best friends, just attended VMworld in San Francisco. I sat in on several Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VMware View in VMware speak) sessions and it quickly became clear that the dam that was holding back VDI adoption has started to crack; water is clearly flowing thru, and we should prepare for a flood sooner rather than later.
This portion of the conference reminded me about a good friend - a successful software entrepreneur, turned farmer - and the unpredictable nature of growing crops. He once explained to me all the various factors that impact when crops can be harvested and what the yield will be, such as sun, temperature, rain, soil condition, etc. Once the crops are ready to be harvested, it literally becomes a race to have everything done in a very short amount of time (days). Although farmers generally know the timing, they still get surprised. They have to deal with some very intense long days; everything else becomes a lower priority.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, What Do Farming and VDI Adoption Have in Common?- CA on Virtualization and Automation
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