Desktop virtualization as an accelerator of digital transformation

Fast-track creation of a modern digital workspace

Digital transformation investments have, to date, focused mainly on customer facing initiatives, enabling new business opportunities and engagement models. Meanwhile, employee facing systems, including the desktop computing environment, have fallen behind in many organizations. In some organizations, this is now becoming a constraining factor in relation to broader business transformation agendas.

Today’s workforce consists of many roles and occupations, and any of these can become less effective when access to modern tools and applications is lacking. But delivering a modern digital workspace while simultaneously transforming the business is no easy matter, so business and IT decision makers need to consider alternative approaches and delivery models, especially where the Windows desktop is concerned.

Content Contributors: Dale Vile & Tony Lock

Dale Vile

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Dale is a co-founder of Freeform Dynamics, and today runs the company. As part of this, he oversees the organisation’s industry coverage and research agenda, which tracks technology trends and developments, along with IT-related buying behaviour among mainstream enterprises, SMBs and public sector organisations.

Tony Lock

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Tony is an IT operations guru. As an ex-IT manager with an insatiable thirst for knowledge, his extensive vendor briefing agenda makes him one of the most well informed analysts in the industry, particularly on the diversity of solutions and approaches available to tackle key operational requirements. If you are a vendor talking about a new offering, be very careful about describing it to Tony as ‘unique’, because if it isn’t, he’ll probably know.