VDI in SMBs – Not just Shelfware, Study Finds VMware Leads with More Than Half of the Installs

As the industry heads to Citrix Synergy and Interop this week, there will be no shortage of news in the End-User Computing world. Amongst it all, Spiceworks released the results of their annual State of SMB IT report for 1H 2012 today. If you have not checked it out, it is a great read.

Over the years, we have been pretty impressed with the quality of the data the Spiceworks team has produced. So, we asked Spiceworks to investigate desktop virtualization industry trends among small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

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According to the results of the "Trends around Desktop Virtualization for Small and Mid-sized Organizations"<http://bit.ly/JbREuC> study (April 2012):

* More than 60 percent of SMBs who responded to the survey plan to roll out or evaluate desktop virtualization in 2012.
* VMware View represented 53 percent of desktop virtualization installations within SMBs (under 1,000 employees)
* Citrix installations represented 27 percent of virtual desktop installations, with an additional 3 percent accounted for by Kaviza (recently acquired by Citrix).
* 88 percent of respondents would implement an on-premise solution if they move to desktop virtualization and cloud computing, while 12 percent said they would consider a hosted virtual desktop offering.

In addition, VMware View is gaining momentum within the enterprise… 50,000 seats deployed at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi; 14,000 seats at ING; 8,000 seats at Johns Hopkins… The list goes on. This quote from Brian Madden last week perhaps says it best…

"I asked my contacts at both Citrix and VMware for lists of public references with >7k seats, and VMware got back to me right away with a pretty long list. So they're doing something right over there."

Respondents are from the following geographies: 66percent were from North America, 26 percent from EMEA, 6 percent from Asia-Pacific, and 2 percent from Latin America.

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