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It's been a long-running joke in the IT industry that every year is going to be “the year of VDI,” the year when IT organizations finally recognize the full value of virtual desktops and applications and adoption accelerates.

But while industry watchers have been laughing, use of VDI—and its cousin Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)—in the real world has been rising steadily. According to Gartner[^1], the global market for infrastructure to run VDI software in 2019 is $7.58B, and the VDI/DaaS software market is $5B. And spending is growing more than 11% annually—much faster than IT spending as a whole.

Nutanix has doubled down on end-user computing technology in recent years, investing heavily in the virtual desktop and application space. To date, Nutanix is widely known for our hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology which optimizes the deployment and management of traditional VMware and Citrix VDI workloads. But we’ve also made great strides in the emerging Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) market with our acquisition of Frame in 2018. If you’re unfamiliar, Frame is a platform able to stream Windows applications and desktops to any device with a browser. The application and desktop workload Virtual Machines can run on-premises with Nutanix AHV and in public clouds such as Azure, GCP or AWS.