My company is actually bringing VDI to small/medium business this year. You just described our whole business model
That's awesome! I would really like to see something like this as a bundle offering from a cloud solutions provider:
1 Fiber + 5G service package
2. VPS + GPU-accelerated VDI + quality thin clients
3. VOIP with Facility Paging (ex. Shoretel hybrid) with a desk phone, mobile app, chat, etc.
4. Office 365 (Office + Skype)
5. Hosted networking (ex. Sonicwall VM) with local mesh-style WAP's (ex. Ubiquiti)
I think like an Amazon "build a business" package would be amazing...if you have 10 employees, they'd ship you out 10 thin clients, 10 VOIP phones, and all of the rest of the bits & pieces for a local installer to put in. I've worked with one or two companies that do that now (with a high degree of integration), but they are not quite as turnkey as I want (or really, as big of a company as I would want backing a service offering like that). But it's allllllllllmost there! And NVIDIA's cloud GPU stuff, along with with various third-party compression & streaming utilities, have gotten really, really amazingly good for giving a user a real full-desktop, no-compromise experience this year. I still don't like being dependent on the Internet connection (although it wouldn't be as bad with a 5G failover...4G, not so much), so a hybrid approach like Shoretel takes with one of their "edge" phone systems would really be ideal for the desktop systems, but still, I think that would be a huge gamechanger, especially for small businesses where you could literally just pay a monthly fee, have a dude come out for a one-day setup, and be up & running the next day with the latest of everything & have it managed for you. That would be really killer!