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March 2, 2012 will be a date that should be remembered. At that date the decision was made to build the largest VDI in the Cloud architecture. An incredible 1.200.000 VDI desktops should be started in the Cloud waiting for end users.

As almost every device is supported, it will change the world of computing as we know it right now. Why buy a PC if you can have access to your own fully supported desktop at a fraction of the price? Every day you logon you will get a complete new PC, with your own personal settings and your own software. And you can use it any time, any where and on any device.

May 1st we will have the first 100.000 desktops up and running and we will have over 400 applications packaged. And it will grow and grow.

So now we have an incredible task to build up the team that is going to develop and deploy the VDI desktop and ensures that all applications can run in this desktop.

And the technology that enables us to make this happen is...

Announcing Free Flow Friday! Each Friday we'll be presenting screencasts by our very own Gene Kupfer. In this ongoing series, Gene will be presenting topics of interest to the Symantec Endpoint Virtualization community.

This blog will provide a handy index for those screencasts. Thanks Gene and happy watching!

• 18 Feb 2011 - Free Flow Friday Screencast: Symantec Workspace Streaming, Initial Configuration
• 25 Feb 2011 - Free Flow Friday Screencast: Workspace Virtualization LDF Extender
• 04 Mar 2011 - Free Flow Friday...

In 2013 there will be over 500 Million virtual desktops according to Gartner. To reach these numbers and to get a high grade of customer adaptation the price of a single Virtual Desktop needs to go down. In the beginning of the 80's most companies were using a $299 device called a typewriter. The typewriter was a very stable device that needed no maintenance, further than exchanging the ribbon. Years and years the typewriter was the only way of getting letters to the customers in a good fashionable way. Off course several people have good handwriting and they can write them.

Then marketing people went to the customers and they explained that exchanging their $299 typewriter for a $2999 computer would be the best thing to do.

No way you can sell devices to end customers that need a lot of maintenance, training and expensive consultants just because they are 900% more expensive. The new device called personal computer was sold because it ensured end...