A survey covering 17 countries by business technology company Avanade found that 88% of executives said employees were using their own personal computing technologies for business purposes. Really? Even though most company policies forbid personal equipment for company use, 88% of executives say it is occurring on a regular basis. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17017570?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Virtual Desktops provide an organization the ability to control company assets and information by bringing those assets under a single point of administrative control while still offering the same experience to customers across various device platforms. WMware View client is a perfect example of how seamless a Windows 7 experience can be extended across various operating systems and personal devices. Recent testing in I-O labs showed that operating a WMware Win7 experience on and iPad is definitely worth considering and is very productive. Mouse click functions, drill downs, word .doc editing and spreadsheets are all very easy to perform and even more so with a wireless keyboard attached to the iPad.
We expect this concept of Bringing Your Own Device (BYOD) to the table to be the next wave of the IT and Virtual Desktop evolution, thus keeping information secure in the cloud, and enabling mobile devices of all types to be productivity tools instead of just toys. Virtual Desktops also separates employer/employee information and reduces risk associated with Compliance and Ownership of 'information.'
If we were building an enterprise network from scratch today, we would create virtual desktops (VDI) for all and require that they be used for all company business/transactions regardless of which device being used.
