Cloud and Mobility
The increasing use of mobile devices in the business is reaching a point where IT departments can no longer effectively manage each individual device. Despite enforcing policy on accessing devices (which most employees don’t like!), companies are seeing an increasing number of personal devices being brought into the work environment. The use of these accessing devices means there are now more operating systems out there. Unfamiliar software such as iOS, Android, RIM, etc., powers these personal devices, and there are myriad new applications that can be used for both business and personal purposes on these new devices. The Apple App Store, for example, has hundreds of thousands of accessible applications – a number that increases on an hourly basis!
So what does this mean to your IT environment? The device, OS and application availability in this new world combines to create greater complexity than ever before seen. By transforming your desktop estate to a user-centric model, you focus your efforts on the most complex component of the environment – the human personality – and in turn reduce cost, increase agility and maximize employee productivity.
By adopting a user virtualization solution, you no longer need to manage individual devices. Employees can leverage applications inside and outside of your firewall without compromising policy and security.
As more and more applications move to a cloud model, it is vital that you maintain control over what your employees are using beyond the wall of your corporate datacenter. By focusing on the user, you can control the balance of IT governance versus user liberation. There are many cloud apps out there that are extremely effective business tools. With user virtualization you can empower your employees to use those cloud applications that positively impact their work, while managing access to non-sanctioned cloud services.
The confluence of cloud-delivered services and the explosion of new accessing devices have only accelerated the need for a new way to manage the working experience for employees. This is the transformation of the desktop to a user-centric, device independent model that gives employees a fully-flexible environment to maximize their impact on the business.
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