VDI: early adopters are out there

Having been skeptical about the adoption of VDI, I was surprised recently to learn that atleast 5 major banks have moved large chunks of their desktops or are in the process of moving them to VDI. I did not get a chance to understand what were the drivers for this, but atleast the early adopters are out there.

In addition their architecture looked very similar: ESX backend, Citrix Stack in front, HP thin clients (XPE/Linux). Even that was surprising. Again I did not get a chance to ask what storage they use etc.

Traditionally on sandhill people say that once the financials buy the rest of the country follows. I would be convinced if I see a couple of more industries. But I must say I was surprised.