Transforming The Desktop To Align With Today’s Mobile Reality

Desktop transformation, aligning desktop computing with today’s dominant trend of business mobility, represents an unrivaled opportunity for organizations to drive business advantage.

Despite the mass adoption of mobile platforms, smart phones and tablets, the desktop is and will remain a core computing form factor; it will not go the way of the dodo any time soon. Yet the traditional standalone desktop architecture is significantly flawed.

It is costly, insecure, and inflexible. Moreover, technical innovation around the desktop is limited and focuses largely on the device, rather than the user. Nor does the traditional desktop meld particularly well with increasingly mobile and cloud-based computing environments.

In order for desktop computing to evolve past its limitations and successfully enter the modern age, the next generation desktop must be inspired by mobility. The key attributes of mobile and cloud computing need to be incorporated within or supported by the desktop architecture, including:

• Real-time application delivery
• End-user freedom
• Secure access to services at the lowest cost
• IT agility in meeting changing business needs

When this happens – and it is starting to happen now in forward-looking organizations – an enterprise can look forward to a wave of hard savings, workplace productivity, and business innovation that can catapult it ahead of the competition.