Why a move to VDI makes even more sense right now
We have waxed lyrical about high performance virtual desktop infrastructure and the benefits it brings for years now: the centralisation, the security, the flexibility, the efficiency, the sustainability etc. etc. All hugely persuasive reasons for any organisation and particularly those with large compute demands to make the switch. It’s why we have seen increasing numbers of organisations adopting our particular technology to support their operations in recent years.
But the impetus to do so just got so much stronger.
We are now in an era of serious hardware shortage, specifically - right now - related to memory. Micron, one of only three companies that provide the majority (93%) of RAM to the world, announced their strategy to pivot entirely away from consumer products in order to supply the impossibly hungry needs of the AI industry, with the other major suppliers (Samsung and SK Hynix) also striking massive, long term deals that will swallow much of the global RAM production for the foreseeable future.
This means two things:
The cost of that hardware is going to be much more expensive.
We have already seen the price of RAM go up, at the time of writing, by about 350%, with very little supply available and SSDs (fast storage disks) are also now starting to inflate by around 140% compared to prices just a month or so ago.
There have, of course, always been spikes in hardware pricing as global supply and demand fluctuates for various reasons. Often things stabilise within a matter of months. Which may happen here, although doing so would seem to depend on either a massive increase in production (and the facilities to do so) and/ or a bursting of the AI bubble and release of that particular oppressive chokehold on supply. Production facilities take years to come online and AI companies (despite increasing criticism and lack of demonstrable ROI) are still attracting huge investment across the board. This does seem to be an unprecedented situation and therefore applying the logic of previous cyclical supply and demand problems might not be appropriate. Certainly the forecasts are that this issue will last throughout 2026 and likely beyond.
And even if this current situation resolves itself relatively quickly, we are living in increasingly unstable geopolitical times. There should be no doubt that this will impact supply chains and provide additional significant challenges in the years to come. If anyone out there is still expecting things at some point to ‘get back to normal’, they are likely to remain considerably disappointed.
Therefore, strategically it makes much more sense to ensure that you can utilise your hardware resources in a way that extracts as much value and efficiency from them as possible. With virtualised desktop infrastructure (VDI) you can deploy, reconfigure and reassign resources for desktops, workstations and private AI models rapidly and easily and make them available to users anywhere. Without virtualisation your resources remain fixed and locked within individual physical devices in specific locations; an additional constraint that may soon be unaffordable. Extracting more value from increasingly expensive resources is a much smarter strategic play, dealing with both current pressures and anticipating the challenges to come.
Flexibility is resiliency in the new world.
It’s also worth noting that flexibility does not have to mean the sacrifice of performance. It is true that many VDI service providers can disappoint as their overly costly and complex platforms over promise and under deliver. Inevidesk does not. Our service is designed for both high performance, ease of management and cost accessibility and we don’t rely on legacy VDI vendors to deliver. We’re a breed apart.
Inevidesk is designed for the new world.