The Year of the Virtual Desktop? For IaaS Provider Navisite it Definitely Is
July 2, 2013
Grazed from ServicesAngles. Author: Bert Latamore.
If you are a CIO you’ve probably heard it every year. “This is the year of desktop virtualization”. Well, for IaaS provider Navisite, 2013 definitely is the year of VDI, or more precisely Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). It has found a nice growth business, primarily initially in higher education and healthcare, where it has found strong use cases based on the high mobility of end-users and the security concerns. But, says Navisite VP of Product Management Chris Patterson, the appeal is really horizontal.
For instance, “last summer we had several customers in London who wanted us just for a few weeks. They said while the London Summer Olympics were on their employees wouldn’t be able to get to their offices. This constituted a disaster for them.” The big market drivers, he says, include BYOD and the growing use of contract workers, both on- and off-shore. And one of the big concerns is security…
“Employee expectations have changed,” he said, “And we can thank Apple for that. People have stopped relying on the IT department for their devices. They have their own notebooks and tablets and what have you, and they want to be able to use those devices. I have my Dell laptop that Navisite gave me, and it is something of a pain. And I have my iPad, and I prefer its UI. “…
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