For the US-based NComputing, a desktop virtualisation company with 30 lakh NComputing access devices deployed in 140 countries, India is the highest growth market and is second only to the US in terms of revenue.

“In three years of our operation in India, we have recorded 150 per cent growth year-over-year. So far we have a total of 500,000 devices installed across educational institutions, small and medium businesses and among enterprises,” said Will Poole, co-chairman and president of NComputing. According to Poole, the largest portion of the instalment is in the education sector (3 lakh) followed by small and medium businesses (1.5 lakh) and enterprises (50,000).

The company has a patented technology that helps to lower costs, improve manageability and reduce both energy consumption and e-waste. “It is the perfect solution for leveraging the power and potential of personal computers and cloud computing,” Poole told Financial Chronicle.

“Virtualisation will help you to save up to 40 per cent on the capex side; and at certain times it can be higher. On the operating cost side, it is anywhere from 75 per cent to 90 per cent,” Poole said.

The solution from NComptuing, both software and hardware, takes advantage of the fact that today’s PCs are so powerful that the vast majority of users only need a small fraction of the computing capacity. NComputing taps this unused capacity so that many users can simultaneously share it. Each user’s monitor, keyboard and mouse are connected to s a small NComputing access device, which is then connected to the shared PC. Its virtualisation software, vSpace, provides each user with a rich multimedia computing experience and their own computing session.