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Yes Virginia There Is Politics In IT: Page 2 of 2

It's become clear over the past year or so that we are in the first phases of the biggest change in data center architecture since we settled on Intel servers and Ethernet switching a 15 or so years ago. I'm afraid that, as usual, the geek squad is paying too much attention to how cool the new technology is and not enough to the politics of change.
Howard Marks
September 20, 2010

If you haven't been able to lock down user desktops, or work in an environment where the phrase "Do you know who I am?" is ever used, VDI may be a big problem for your environment. 

After all some of the most talked about advantages of VDI, like being able to just spawn a new copy of the golden image for a user, assume the user hasn't spend many hours customizing their personal machine image.  Drop a new copy of the golden image on me and I'll lose bookmarks, passwords and hundreds of words in my custom dictionary. Not to mention the 20 apps I use that aren't part of the golden image.

We'll leave the internecine battles inside IT departments over techs like FCoTR for another time.

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