Linking Desktop Virtualization with Big Data

Just attend a meeting about end-user computing, hosted by Information Week, sponsored by Dell and Intel. I think of this and contribute this new idea to the audience: since all contents of virtualized desktop are at server-side as well, it would be a fairly interesting solution if we can leverage big-data infrastructure (Hadoop, HBase, HDFS, search engine like Lily etc) to establish one new shared-data platform. User can decide what to share, and leverage server-side analytics capability to get what they want to retrieve from their virtualized desktop and shared data. Basically, virtualized desktop is just a user-defined zone, allow them to put what they want to put (content-storage), applications(computing) and define what to share and what not to share. It will require OS-level system engineering for sure and will be interesting to see if any vendor can pick up this idea, move forward.