IBM is taking on VMware’s virtual desktop infrastructure with its own Linux and Lotus-based virtual desktop. VMware’s VDI, recently re-launched as View, ships a virtual Windows or Linux desktop to desktops, notebooks and thin client devices, and is built from a golden master file and linked clones, stored on a VMware ESX server’s disks. IBM is working with Virtual Bridges and its VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment) product to ship a virtual Canonical Ubuntu Linux desktop, with Lotus email, unified communication, and social networking software included, to a variety of end-point devices.

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