As Green IT and Virtualization becoming the hotest topic today, I believe is time to move the virtualization technology to the desktop level and make it available in the acedemy area from primary school to university. I strongly believe VDI will help to reduce the carbon foot print as well as the physical machine require for a school or university to serve their student during their study.

That will be more opportunity for the next generation of student might be 70% study with computer base, I believe the relevant department should start to implement the VDI for some significant power saving and reduce the pollution generated by each of the desktop. Imagine for the school in Malaysia today, you will easily get 50 to 200 PC per school which provided by the education minister for student usage. Imagine the number of PC will generate the extra cost for manage and refresh, VDI will be something that will fit for long term solution. With VDI, we will able to fully utilize the hardware resource today as well as simplify managing the image require to be run for each virtual desktop. With economy crisis now , I believe cost cutting is not only happen on private sector, the goverment should practice the cost and effective way to provide world class knowledge and solution in term to grow the kids for the future too.

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