Kent Council claims it will save £2.5m after moving to VDI with VMware

Sooraj Shah
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VMware chosen over Citrix because it had 'more of a vision, was honest and explained all of the hidden costs'

Kent County Council claims that it will save £2.5m after migrating away from thousands of Windows XP devices to a VMware virtualised desktop environment. "We currently have around 10,000 devices...

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