Client Virtualization - Stage 1

In India Client virtualization is there for more than more than 25 years.. !!! starting from the Unix - Green Terminal days.. Mainly adapted by government agencies thanks to the innovations and support from National Informatics Center (Famously known as NIC)..

This started changing towards end of 90's.. By end of 90's Desktops with local Windows OS seems to be a better option considering the costing and there were no real alternatives available at that point of time for the Green Terminals other than PC's...


In the early days VXL was pioneer in offering Thinclient solutions.. HC vL was there in Green Terminal business and then was yet to make inroads in to the Thiclient business..

In the above scenario for VXL moving in to Thinclients was an obvious move (Globally WYSE and Compaq was in the same stage at that time)..because by end of Year 2000 only very few customers were buying the Terminals and Hardware Terminal Servers .. (80% by India Railways) and some to MTNL and few other customers..

In India HCL was bit late in entering in to the Thinclient business but thanks to the support and push from Late Mr. Raman (One of the Founding members of HCL)..HCL also slowly made entry in to Thinclient business by the year 1999-2000..

By beginning of 2001 two vendors were there offering Thinclient solutions in India.. and then the challenges ahead were huge..

To start with the cost of the desktops are coming low.. Intel has come out low cost chips.. every user is offered with a PC with all peripherals (Printers / Scanners).. PC was becoming really personal.. !!!

Lets look at the challenges one by one and how each were addressed slowly.. over a period of time.. in the coming posts.. (These were the interesting days and we will lot of innovations .. :-) :-))

Client Virtualization

I am fortunate to be part of the client virtualization history happening in India and few places i was part of it.. in this blog i am going to describe the details of how the Industry evolved starting from the Year 2000.

This can be categorized in to three periods.. Initial - Stage - Where the product and solutions are totally new and the Hardware and software was still under development..

Then comes the boom period mainly fueled by the BFSI and then comes the advanced era - where government agencies adapting to Thinclient in a big way...

After explaining every stage -- we can look and jointly analyze where the market will move in the next 10 years..

With this i will welcome all to an wonderful "Virtual Journey"

Hi

Long time i thought of sharing my understanding and sharing with all about the emerging desktop solutions and get in familiar with the new ones available.. may this can be the platform for the same...

Will start posting my thoughts on the same..