Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Market Size & Top Leaders by 2027

The virtual desktop infrastructure market was valued at US$ 4,490.0 million in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.4% during the forecast period to reach US$ 12,971.3 million by 2027.

The business around the world are adopting digitalization as it presents a massive opportunity for businesses to utilize digital technologies and automation to transform their business models and existing processes for enhancing operational efficiency and increasing revenue. In last few years, proliferation of smart devices, adoption of Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) have led to advent of smart workplaces. In general, digital transformation refers to the integration of digital technologies in business processes, and organizational activities/models. The rising demand for end to end business process optimization, high operational efficiency, and reduced human errors are the key drivers for the growth of digital transformation in various industries. From past few years, desktop virtualization has been gaining populating among enterprises allowing them to virtualizing entire workgroups for higher efficiency and lower costs. With solutions such as virtual desktop infrastructure and Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), industry verticals such as IT & telecom, government & defense, education, BFSI, healthcare, research, and manufacturing are able to reduce their endpoint footprint, offer feature-rich apps, and provide better user experiences. This solution helps enterprises in increasing business agility, responsiveness, and flexibility and thus allow them to cater the ever-changing IT demands. Hence, all the benefits offered by virtual desktop infrastructure and other desktop virtualization tools enable the digital transformation in various industries and thus drive the demand of these solutions among enterprises.

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus negatively affects the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure market. The imposition of lockdown and movement of vehicles by government bodies to reduce curb the spread of the virus has negatively impacted the trade of products worldwide. Owing to the low business of trade, the number of cargo vessels, fisheries vessels has decreased drastically, which limited the use of VMS. Also, due to the temporary shutdown of manufacturing units, the procurement of new ships had negatively impacted, resulting in less VMS adoption. This factor has been analyzed while estimating the market size of the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure market in 2020.

Lucrative Regions for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market

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Market Insights

Rising Adoption among Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Presently, a large portion of the virtual desktop infrastructure solution and services market belong to large enterprises segment mainly due to complex large scale operations, prevalence of remote work culture, and fast adoption of advanced solutions by such enterprises. On a global level, large enterprises are in the forefront of digital transformation to improve operations, however, small and medium sized enterprises are still in the stage of adopting latest technology solutions such as virtual desktop infrastructure. Some of the major reasons behind this slow adoption by SMEs include lack of resources and lack of awareness about the potential cost and productivity benefits of these solutions. Hence, SMEs offer a huge growth opportunity for players operating in the global virtual desktop infrastructure market. In order to tap this potential segment, companies are investing in marketing activities to spread awareness and generate interest regarding the potential benefits of using virtual desktop infrastructure solutions and services among SMEs. Various key companies such as Citrix Systems, Inc., VMware, Inc and Microsoft are offering cloud based solutions/plans at affordable prices for small and medium sized companies in order increase revenue and market share. Moreover, the rising trend of digitalization among enterprises to improve operational workflow and reduce costs will further drive the adoption of virtual desktop infrastructure solutions and services among SMEs and thus provide growth opportunities to the players during the forecast period of 2020 to 2027.

Offering Market Insights

In VDI, the operating system (OS) runs on a virtual machine hosted on a server in a data center. The image of the desktop travels through the network to the end user’s device, wherein the user can interact with the desktop. VDI offers every user with his/her own dedicated virtual machine running its own OS. The OS resources, including drivers, CPUs, and memory, among others, operate from a software layer known as a hypervisor. The hypervisor replicates their output, handles the resource allocation to multiple virtual machines, and enable them to run alongside on the same server. The offering segment of VDI is classified into solution and services.

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market, by Offering– 2019 and 2027

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Deployment Market Insight

Based on deployment type, the global virtual desktop infrastructure market is segmented into cloud-based and on-premise deployment. The cloud based virtual desktop infrastructure is witnessing high demand as compared to on-premise virtual desktop infrastructure. The cloud segment generates the majority of the demand since it is comparatively less expensive and due to strong network infrastructure in developed countries. In addition, the cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure vendors are highly focused on developing a high-level security patch in order to eliminate the risk of cyber-attack. This factor is also creating significant demand from the end-users, thereby driving the virtual desktop infrastructure market.

Enterprise Size Market Insight

Based on enterprise size, the VDI market is segmented into SMEs and large enterprises. The increasing adoption of VDI solutions by diverse enterprises is significantly driving the demand of virtual desktop infrastructure among SMEs. As per our scope, small enterprises are defined as those having 1–100 employees, while medium-sized enterprises as those with 101–500 employees. SMEs play a significant role in all economies, primarily in their development. As per the World Bank, SMEs contribute to ~40% of GDP and ~60% of total employment in the emerging economies.

End-User Market Insight

Virtualization is one of the evolving trends, which is benefiting several businesses in diverse sectors. VDI is an emerging model of virtualization that includes hosting a desktop OS and making it accessible on almost any device. The advantages offered by VDI, such as easy management and enhanced security, is accelerating its adoption in various industries. VDI also results in decreasing the IT costs of any organization, which is another significant factor propelling its adoption. The end-user segment is sub-segmented into BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing, IT & telecom, retail, education, government, and others.

Strategic Insights

The players operating in the enterprise content management market focus on strategies such as mergers, acquisitions, and market initiatives to maintain their positions in the market. A few developments by key players are listed below:

• In Sep 2019, VMware announced the availability of Horizon 7 Version 7.10, CART 5.2, App Volumes 2.18, and DEM 9.9. The release has various enhancements such as the addition of new functionality to HTML5-based Horizon Console enhancements in Remote Desktop Services Hosts (RDSH) capabilities and troubleshooting capabilities in Horizon 7.10..

• In Feb 2019, Nexenta announced a partnership with Cisco to delivers Nexenta's software-based enterprise file services to the Cisco HyperFlex solution. It will enable new use cases including Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) and Backup/Disaster Recovery (BDR); Support for Legacy Enterprise, New Cloud-Native, and 5G-driven Telco Cloud Apps; Eliminating Cost for Separate File Servers.

Global Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Segments:

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market – By Offering

• Solution
• Services

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market – By Deployment

• Cloud
• On-Premise

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market – By Enterprise Size

• SMEs
• Large Enterprises

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market – By End-User

• IT & Telecom
• Government
• Healthcare
• BFSI
• Education
• Retail
• Manufacturing
• Other End-Users

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Market – By Geography

• North America

  • U.S.
  • Canada
  • Mexico

• Europe

  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • UK
  • Rest of Europe

• Asia Pacific (APAC)

  • Australia
  • China
  • India
  • Japan
  • Rest of APAC

• Middle East & Africa (MEA)

  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • South Africa
  • Rest of MEA

• South America (SAM)

  • Brazil
  • Rest of SAM

Companies

• Amazon.com, Inc
• Cisco Systems, Inc.
• IBM Corporation
• Microsoft Corporation
• VMware, Inc.
• Fujitsu Limited
• Dell Technologies Inc.
• Citrix Systems, Inc.
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE)
• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.