Does anyone know the planned timeline for the company-wide implementation of VDI? With company issued phones out of the way, I presume the laptops are next.
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@1qms+1chXds76, that's what I plan on doing. Even if WF's policy is not to snoop, it wouldn't prevent a rogue technician from doing so. And then there's the possibility of a hack.
BS, my apps are running out of Shoreview.
Even though it would probably be a breeze to work my usual complex Excel spreadsheets on my current personal device at home with 4x the RAM as my work laptop, I dang sure don't want WF "snoopin' and p00pin' " around inside even if such activities are contained to the confines of the "secure" VDI container. It would be just my luck that I'm "that guy" who gets a nasty-gram from HR for surfing p0rn on my personal device during my own time. Just give me the recommended specs and I'll go find something at BestBuy or Amazon on sale for a few hundred bucks that I can dedicate to working via VDI.
That's why I said "planned timeline". Everyone knows you tack an extra year or two on top for actual implementation, but you need to know what the plan is in order to do that and get to the actual timeline!
Last I saw, the email tech sent to targeted folks about 2 months ago said that 10,000 would have it by end of 2021 with remainder by end of 2022. My best guess is the 10,000 will be those who have RTO and have a desk in an office they "own" versus someone still WFH who is using a corporate laptop. I keep creeping on the tech news page on Teamworks for updated information. Do a search for "technology vdi" and it may come up.
@vth+1chXds76 the fire at Shoreview had a BCP plan and they're using it. They moved it all to Oxmoor. And, guess where it ALL is still at? Yep, Oxmoor, because every time they try the "fail over" to test moving the data back, it fails. They try about 3 times a year. I have to participate in all of them due to a subset of data/applications that are there. Nothing is back at Shoreview, even though the server is physically fixed. If I had to guess, will be well in to 2022 or 2023 before it's back. And, I'm not sure if they developed a new BCP plan for if something happens to Oxmoor.
OP this is a great question but we take like a year longer than we ever say and unfortunately all you've done is sounded some kind of nerd mating call. Every response is a bunch of IT ppl trying to one-up each other with their acronyms and tech speak. Bleh!!
Pointing out that mainframes survived in a few sectors, simply because they excelled at batch processing, didn't really destroy my argument.
But go ahead and justify treating everything like a batch job, even end user work, if it keeps you employed.
But we don’t have the WOPR!!!
Lol I was thinking the same thing. The parallelized modern IBM mainframes are wonders of engineering handling trillions of calculations a minute.
Every serious financial institution relies heavily on them
@qbx+1chXds76 Mainframes didn't last? Bahahahahaahahahahaha
What planet did you come from to make such an ignorant and uninformed statement?
You have no clue how much of this company's transactional processes are handled by mainframes and have been for decades and will continue to be for a few more years.
There's a reason mainframe computing didn't last.
To the devs: be sure to test with a focus group of analysts. VDI and network traffic are inherent roadblocks when working on desktop versions of modeling software.
Ideally it would all be cloud but I doubt it is.
I can see day 1 release a bunch of modelers not being to work anymore because no one considered the use case or thinks everyone "should be" on their web app that no one can access without a 5k license and an act of congress. (Looking at you Ilan and your "restructed use case" junk data science platform)
@sff+1chXds76, that’s already happened. During the shoreview event, all of EGS was knocked out because that’s where their VDIs were located with no viable BCP. They were effectively down until service was restored there.
Great info, thanks for the informative responses!
2022 is the plan, but the pilot teams have been very small to this date. I would expect a lot more forward push in q4 as more people are in the office. Should make collaborating on issues/solutions surrounding vdi easier to accomplish.
I can't wait until a datacenter goes down and takes out e-mail, phone, and desktop. Centralization may result in cost savings, but it incurs higher risk.
Can't wait!
We were told rollout would be complete by end of 2022, but no word yet on the who’s and when’s.