Accelerating your BYOD Strategy with VDI

Grazed from Wired. Author: Leo Reiter.

Everywhere you look, there’s a push to consumerize IT. People want to use their own devices — not just in their personal lives but also in their work roles. From email and calendars to file sharing and collaborating, employees are dictating the types of end user experience they want. If CIOs don’t acknowledge and support them, then employees will go around them, introducing serious security concerns. In an even worse scenario for companies in highly competitive industries, top performers will just choose to work elsewhere.

Of course, this puts CIOs in an unenviable position. Do you allow employees to bring their own devices and access business apps from them? Or do you put the company on lockdown, and risk them circumventing you and exposing your data in the process? How do you protect against security gaps while supporting a flexible BYOD policy?…

The reality is, consumers are largely in charge of the tools they use and it’s time for IT organizations to embrace it. For all of its potential headaches, BYOD offers companies a number of benefits, such as reduced capital expenses and improved worker productivity. Of course once a CIO decides to support BYOD, the first instinct is to port proprietary applications to mobile devices. This works great if you have the time, talent, money, and source code…

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