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What new technologies do you see helping to tackle the path to desktop virtualization?
What new technologies do you see emerging to tackle the speedbumps in the path to desktop virtualization?
This question was asked during Barb Goldworm's presentation "The Virtualization Landscape: Top Trends in Server, Desktop and Storage" during the Focus Interactive Summit:Virtualization- The Ongoing Revolution.
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I actually take a different approach to this. The question is, who benefits (cui bono), the organization or the individual end user? If instead of saying the organization, which people usually do, we say the end user, we come up with a different set of technologies:
1. 4G used to connect a laptop "desktop" to the Web/corporate Intranet. WiFi doesn't cut it, and hotel services are too expensive. Users need a way to have a "desktop"/"user environment" with them anywhere, at any time. With 4G speed, you can get the same connectivity as with wifi, everywhere.
2. "virtual desktop pull". Sticking your work on a central server is not for everyone. The obvious compromise is to allow those who don't fit to "pull" the personal "environment" down to a PC while at work, or a laptop elsewhere (see technology one).
3. "virtual data security". Recently, security necessary for desktop virtualization has been much improved by the addition of data-focused security from the likes of EMC. However, this assumes fixed physical firewalls and the like. Virtual security boundaries would allow the mobile or contract employee to use the virtualized desktop with the same flexibility as deskbound contract employees.
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