The big driver toward virtual desktops today is obvious – the digital diaspora among knowledge workers due to the worldwide shift to remote working. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has been on an upswing for the last decade as virtualization technologies have improved to enable a remote user experience on par with or even exceeding what users might receive locally. Yet in the average organization the percentage of user-days hosted on local desktops or laptop O/S remained greater than on virtual desktops.
This year we believe a reversal is in progress – virtual desktops are becoming the new corporate baseline. Organizations are dramatically expanding their VDI footprint and online app catalog depth to respond to the overwhelming remote user demand for access to all their favorite applications and required data with high performance on any device, anywhere.
Baseline virtual desktop adoption is now made eminently possible through the use of cloud, the ease of deploying new virtual infrastructure leveraging converged and hyperconverged physical infrastructures, fluid deployment capabilities across hybrid clouds for apps/VMs/data, umbrella management capabilities to secure system access, users and critical data, and the IT efficiencies from sharing a pool of high-value resources (whether through cloud utility pricing or scalable data center architecture).
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