Well, now that brings up an interesting point. How many legacy apps really need to be virtualized or SaaS-ified? Smart developers will webify their apps or translate them into more modern versions using Java or C#. A lot of them will migrate them to Azure or Amazon's cloud too. If you look at trends, Microsoft has created Office.com, which webifies their flagship MS Office product, deprecating the need for locally installed apps. Intuit has webified QuickBooks.
The technologies to watch in this space are:
Docker (Yes, it works on Windows)
2X, which was purchased by Parallels
Azure
Bromium
NVIDIA's GRID
TheSixthFlag
I've watched this space for a very long time and have said for years that webified apps, including desktops is really where it's at. The keyword here is Legacy. Legacy means old technology, which means that you're trying to breathe life into something that perhaps just needs to die naturally through attrition or starvation (metaphorically speaking, of course) where attrition is people moving on and starvation is abandonment of old technology. SaaS is what will drive the future of software. And that's not virtual or legacy, that's just software reimagined and rearchitected into web-based apps, like Salesforce.com is.
News 
Market Data 
Discover 
AI
