HP Anyware vs. OCI Virtual Desktop

I haven't used it as much over WAN connections but I am familiar with Teradici's efficiency over slow links. In our LAN, environment, the best feature is central management and small footprint. These primarily go into lab, testing and kiosk areas due to minimal hardware outlay and easier to lock down.

Incentivized

For large and mid-sized organizations utilizing massive virtual desktop deployments, Oracle VDI offers great value. It supports a wide range of operating systems like Linux, Solaris, Windows etc.

Incentivized

• Management of zero clients and their configuration
• Efficient use of bandwidth for sound and video
• Reliable drivers

Incentivized

• Ease of Manageability. Accessing and managing multiple virtualized desktop environments is pretty straightforward.
• Great Options for Keeping Track of Logins. Detailed reports of who has been logging into which environment are easy to configure.
• File Systems Can Be Shared. You can set multiple desktop environments to be able to share data on the same file system.

Incentivized

• What was once free is no longer free, that is, management
• Version compatibility between different generations is complicated
• Not the most compatible solution

Incentivized

• In our use of Oracle VDI, we have found there is a significant lag time when using the desktop environments through it, rather than the standalone virtual desktops.
• Real time reporting and statistics can be improved as well.

Incentivized

From the end user's perspective the usability is not impacted at all.

Incentivized

The easiest way to describe the performance is like this - when it is working, it works almost flawlessly. When it starts freezing, your day is going to get very interesting very quickly. As I have stated earlier, I used it for one purpose, and it did what I needed it to most of the time, but I did have issues with it.

Incentivized

VMware Blast! is now VMware's standard for VDI. It has some features that make it better in a VMware environment. Existing PCoIP systems we have are Teradici-based so I am glad that standard is still available. When it comes to hardware, Teradici is still the most available so we continue to choose them.

Incentivized

VMware Horizon does everything that Oracle VDI is capable of doing and offers many more features, and unlike Oracle VDI, it is still receiving constant updates. Oracle VDI was a great solution for enterprise-level management of virtualized desktop when it was getting updates, but now that it won't be getting any, I would put it in the "outdated technology" category.

Incentivized

• Failure rate of devices is really low
• Even without firmware updates, zero clients remain useful years after placement
• Zero clients and virtualized desktops infrastructure is competitive with dedicated PC's

Incentivized

• When I used it full-time it worked for what I needed it - positive.
• When it crashed, it costed me in time to wait to get it back up - negative.
• Took up less space than using live machines - positive.

Incentivized