Foreword

For the better part of two decades modern IT administrators benefited from a fairly predictable progression of more powerful, yet cheaper technology at their disposal to provision to users to keep them happy and productive in their daily jobs.

While powerful and responsible for where we are today - one facet lingers today as a penalty we all must contend with. This is the issue of "scale". Scale should be thought of as the RATIO of users, devices, applications per admin - not simply the sheer size of any deployment. For therein lies the problem we all continue to try to solve: How to take this remnant of the power of Moore's Law and the proliferation of cheap, powerful Windows Workspaces and reign it back in.

Virtualization ushers in a ...

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