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Contributed by Victoria Rege, global marketing, NVIDIA GRID solutions
Virtualized Graphics for the Masses
Today's workforce has become
increasingly more mobile, and as more enterprises over the last decade have
implemented virtual desktop solutions, employees are no longer tethered to
their workstations, offices or devices. According to IDC, mobile workers will account for
nearly three quarters (72.3%) of the total U.S. workforce by 2020.
Global companies like Airbus, Ford,
Boeing, SpaceX and others, have seen the benefits of virtualized graphics
solutions as a way to improve the performance of their VDI implementations, as
a result, giving employees the ability to have access to graphics-intensive
applications with a seamless user experience. Virtualized graphics solutions
have given enterprises the ability to virtualize their workflows from the data
center - which was not possible in the past because of performance issues.
One such solution is NVIDIA GRID,
which, since its launch in 2013, has evolved to meet the needs of virtually any
enterprise business and is positioned for mass consumption as businesses look
to give their employees the ability to access the most graphics-intensive
workflows from any device. NVIDIA GRID 2.0
gives enterprises the ability to run virtual-desktops on blade-servers - not
simply on rack servers. In addition, enterprises are no longer limited to the
windows operation system, enabling enterprises in industries that depend on
Linux applications and workflows to take advantage of graphics-accelerated
virtualization.
While historically, having access to
vGPU solutions was limited to a small segment of designers and engineers, new platforms,
such as Microsoft Azure, will soon bring virtualized graphics to the masses in
order to meet the needs of an increasingly mobile workforce.
These large scale partnerships
further validates that the adoption of virtualized graphics technology is set
to increase exponentially and CIOs are beginning to see the benefits of
implementing these solutions. It's no longer a question as to whether or not
CIOs will embrace virtualized graphics solutions, but when. CIOs that are slow
to embrace this solution could just end up being late to the game.
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About the Author
Victoria Rege heads global marketing for
NVIDIA GRID solutions. She's passionate about cloud and virtualization products
and technologies and the way that they're improving how enterprise employees
work. Victoria has a B.A. in public relations and French from the University of
Rhode Island. You can find her on Twitter @Fleurdevie.