BYOD
Branch Office Desktop Virtualisation in the BYOD Era
recent report by industry analyst firm Juniper Research predicts the number of bring your own device (BYOD) smartphones and tablets used by employees for their jobs will more than double within two years. Juniper’s study titled, “Mobile Security Strategies: Threats, Solutions and Market Forecasts,” estimates that the current total of 150 million employee-owned devices now being deployed in enterprises will balloon to 350 million by 2014. Juniper also said BYOD is (and will continue to be) most popular in Western Europe. Undoubtedly, companies benefit greatly from the growing mobility of the workforce and the productivity enabled while on-the-go. But new challenges are placed on IT organisations to provide a solution that ensures always on-demand accessibility while protecting company data. IT organizations today are moving to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to solve the rising tension created by BYOD as mobile workers want access to the company’s network
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and applications and the organisation still needs to retain the ability to manage and protect data. As the technology has matured, it has become increasingly feasible, cost-effective and easy-to-manage. New Research Reveals Growing VDI Demand, Especially in the Mid-Market Desktop virtualisation has been an often-debated technology with the perception of unmet expectations largely due to early exaggerated hype coupled with the realisation of the complexity involved in initial solutions in the market. Today, VDI has been radically simplified by vendors who’ve integrated shared storage and virtual servers in simple, scalable appliance models. These appliances provide an enterprise-class virtual desktop infrastructure with high performance, high availability and no single point of failure. Due to the ease and cost-effectiveness of today’s solutions, VDI demand is growing.
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