OS streaming

May 16, 2008, 10:40am PDT | Length: 00:02:32

Sponsored: Christian Black, an IT systems engineer for Intel, spells out the many benefits of hard-drive virtualization, or operating system streaming, including faster boot times and longer desktop life.

The content for this video was sponsored and provided by Intel.

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OS streaming

Christian Black: Hi, I'm Christian Black with Intel IT. Over the last couple of years, I've been working with virtual relation technologies, and today I'd like to talk to you about one of those technologies we call OS Streaming or operating system streaming.

Anybody who's worked in the PC industry, either corporate or private for the last few years knows the pain of a failed hard drive. This particular user stayed up all night long in the office finishing a PowerPoint presentation, saved their last document after the backup had run and comes in the next morning to a failed hard disk. This makes this user really unhappy, causes a lot of dissatisfaction, a lot of frustration, a lot of time on the PC tech's part, and of course, they lost the data for that meeting in the morning which was really what was most important.

There's a better way to do this, and that better way is operating system streaming. So, what is that? Operating system streaming is where we take an image of the local PC and we pull that out and put it in the server. Once it gets there we call it a V Disk or virtual disk, and that V Disk is subsequently rebroadcast across the local network to multiple clients.

So, you are looking at this, saying, well hey, that can't be that efficient. Actually, it has many benefits. The benefits of virtualization are centralized management of images and patching, faster boot times, more responsive applications for the client, and longer desktop PC life. In benchmarking, virtual disks against a local set of hard drives, we actually found that with very few exceptions, the benchmarks scored higher on the V disk across the network than it did with the local disk itself.

So, all these benefits plus it's faster, it's a no brainier.

If you would like to know more about OS streaming, visit the Intel Premier IT professional website and check out the white papers.

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OS streaming from Hewlett-Packard

The concept of OS Streaming is not so new.
HP propose an OS Streaming Technology named as HP Neoware Image Manager that can stream XP or Vista Environement into ThinClient or Traditional Desktops.
The HP Technology is very "lite" and provide a full XP or Vista OS with only 60 to 100MB of data streamed during the Boot Process with an average of 2MB/s (The Boot Process can also be configure to bootup before User arrives at the office).
In addition, the cost between a traditional Desktop and a full HP solution with Thin Client can be divided by 2 with the same level of user experience (Better Performance, All Application and peripherals supported if supported on XP/Vista) and a large improvement on PC Management.

Quickspecs of the product is available on hp.com:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12898_div/12898_div.HTML
Dam_V
30th Mar 2009
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There is a good site that explain how OS Streaming works and the TCO and ROI generated by that solution :
http://www.damienbruley.com/vDisk.html

Have a look !
Dam_V
28th Jun 2009
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It's good that they have thought about that. It was about time they did something. Thanks for sharing. Backpack | Laptop Backpack
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20th Aug
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Still interesting after 3years. This topic is still inspiring for me. Thanks for sharing this.
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