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Desktop Virtualization is building up steam and there are many options available as more and more companies are jumping into the fray. With the field growing each month, it is getting more and more cluttered. Everyone wants a piece of the Gartner projected 64 billion dollars to be spent on virtualizing desktops over the next five years. This blog will focus on some of the things I am doing in the space to solve problems for my customers. Couple few things I am working on now are regarding cost savings and reducing the cost per desktop on inital purchase, as that is a limiting factor in acceptance of the technology. The focus has been on ESX as the backend hypervisor but there is momentum toward changing that. ESXi (the free version) has been adopted at one of my customers (5400 desktop install and growing). Managing it has been a challenge, but there are now tools out there (commerical and free) that address some of the headaches. But ESX is not the end all, Microsoft will soon be comparable to ESX for most customers needs, especially on the desktop side. And Parallels Virtuozzo is making a push with Quest's vWorkspace (pretty slick technology there and Quest will broker all three hypervisors). Watch this space, it's about as dynamic as they come.