Cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructures drives down business IT costs further – Market expected to grow at an annual rate of 26 percent.

Companies are expected to flock to cloud based virtual desktop solutions over the next 4 years as business see potential dramatic decreases in IT operating costs from their adoption. . Besides the cloud as a way for established companies to reduce their IT costs, these companies also see the virtual desktop infrastructure as a way to leverage their existing IT infrastructure investment so that  they can still use them. Explaining was TechNavio, a cloud research company “One of the major advantages of adopting cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions is the resulting ability to reuse old IT infrastructure. Cloud-based services are delivered to end-users over the internet and therefore, end-user systems do not require high-end configurations to support applications. End-user systems merely need to display transmitted content, allow inputs from end-users, and transmit data to the cloud infrastructure. Further, with virtualization of network infrastructure, the gap between old infrastructure and modern infrastructure is minimized as old infrastructure can provide enhanced computing capabilities post virtualization. Therefore, the ability of cloud-based VDI solutions to support applications on existing infrastructure is driving their adoption among an increasing number of enterprises in the US.'

For many business, a virtual infrastructure solution is one way to keep their IT infrastructure intake as they migrate their applications to the cloud.  However for startup companies, virtual desktop infrastructures allow the company to completely eliminate the costs. In these companies, employees can use their own PCs, tablets and mobile devices to hook up the company’s virtual desktop infrastructure without IT involvement or costs. With further advancements in virtual desktop infrastructure, large scale processing tasks can be distributed to either the company’s public cloud service or processed with  any and all PCs attached to the virtual network (hardwired or mobile). .

TechNavio’s market research report, titled, "Cloud-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market in the US 2012-2016," projects that the market for cloud based virtual desktops to grow at a CAGR of 26 percent from 2011 to 2016 within the United States”

The report also said that that the vendors dominating the market were Citrix Systems Inc., Desktone Inc., MokaFive Inc., and VMware Inc. Other vendors mentioned include SecureOnlineDesktop, RedHat Inc., WorldDesk Ltd., SCC, Dell Inc., and Netelligent Corp. TechNavio also pointed out that the primary reason the market is expected to grow at such a phenomenal rate is that virtual infrastructures reduce business IT costs especially desktop provisioning costs. Today IT costs can range anywhere between 2 and 15 percent of a company’s total cost of sales. With cloud based virtual desktop infrastructures those costs could almost be totally eliminated.