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Josh Atwell here, roving reporter at Cisco Live.
I'm here again with Jan Klincewicz. We're going to talk a little bit about Diskless VDI.
So Jan, what is Diskless VDI?
-Well Diskless VDI is a very, very new concept using some very old technologies to great effect.
Essentially because of the unique properties of Cisco's UCS extended memory blades,
we're able to take a large portion of that very, very fast DDR memory and treat it as a disk drive.
-Oh wow, that's kind of impressive. So what's the big benefit that customers get
using Diskless VDI in their environment?
-Well typically in a desktop virtualization platform, 70 to 80 percent
of the cost ends up being the very, very expensive storage- the storage arrays on which the VM's reside.
By taking the spinning disk out of the equation and moving the VM's into memory itself,
we gain great amount of performance, a much better end-user experience,
and considerable decrease in the cost of the entire platform.
-Yea. So it sounds like it really brings the total cost of ownership for providing VDI into your environment.
It brings it down a notch and makes it a little bit more consumable to a wider range of customers.
Would that be pretty fair to say? -Well, more than a notch.
In fact, the CAPEX that we've come up with has been approximately 200 to 300 dollars per desktop.
-Wow. That's no small amount of change. I mean, that'll make a difference.
Especially as your organization and your needs grow.
-And especially when you consider that the performance is considerably better
than even a physical machine, once you've moved the VM's into memory.
-Well I think everybody would agree; lower total cost of ownership, better performance,
and providing more for your customer is probably what everybody is looking for.
Jan, thank you very much for your time. -You're welcome.
-This is Josh Atwell signing out.