Streaming the additional components is a major issue, said Raths, they are creating a bottleneck for the application performance. "In short, you need to have a good understanding of all your applications' interdependencies," he noted.

Apart from the application architecture, the data center infrastructure also needs to be ready to support the technology. "You must be prepared to pay a lot for the storage for each individual desktop image," said Raths. "Imagine if you have 10,000 desktops and each of them require on average 50GB for the desktop image."