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Diane Greene on "Hosting desktops on Servers"



Diane Greene, our favorite CEO, was interviewed.

"I think there is a real desire out there now to host desktops on a server," said Greene, who holds degrees from MIT, the University of Vermont and the University of California at Berkeley. "I think you're going to see the ability to run more desktops on servers and companies investing more in thin clients. This is going to allow companies to have PCs with instant restart, no booting and have a lot more control over the management of the data."


The lady has a point. Not only that but hosting multiple VM desktops on powerful desktops is also a growing need. So indeed there is a very rich roadmap out there. Effective collaboration is now the key to future success!


But anyways, read the rest here.

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