Upcoming ‘Cast": Preparing for Hybrid Desktop Environments: Maintaining the User Experience
Hi everyone, we wanted to make you aware of an upcoming Webcast, the RES team are jointly delivering with Forrester about the journey to the Hybrid Desktop. This mix of analyst research and in-market technology promises to be an interesting discussion. Here is what we plan to cover.
Consumerization of IT has brought organizations an immense challenge. User preferences are shaping IT strategy, not only for devices they choose to work on, but where they want to work, and the applications they prefer. Today’s workforce is more mobile and technically savvy then anyone before them, creating an environment of dynamic context changes foreign to most infrastructure. A typical Sales role can have multiple devices, and work in half a dozen (or more) contexts throughout their day. Some of these assets and resources are known and provided by Corporate IT, but increasingly, many are not. The below table is an example of my own weekday experience – your mileage may vary (literally, talking air miles there…)
Numerous capabilities have entered the market over the past decade to assist in managing these scenarios. Identity and Access Management (AD, Group Policy) , Security technology (Management/VPN/NAP/NAC/IPv6/DA/Cloud) are examples of these but still, the concept of ‘Dynamic Context’ is 2 steps ahead.
The Hybrid Desktop is a summary experience of content and resource simultaneously delivered through a variety of methods including physical, virtual and cloud – to a broad array of personal and corporate devices. The mix of delivery technologies that match these evolving work styles and device preferences are tasked solely on IT, with the same expectations they have had for over a decade, and less tolerance than ever for downtime. With each additional delivery mechanism, the management of the user experience can become more complex, but IT still needs to keep people productive, secure and compliant.
In this webcast (and future posts) we are going to talk about the Hybrid desktop, and how today’s organizations can embrace CoIT/ BYoPC to drive productivity in a secure, user friendly, flexible and responsive way.
This session will combine 2 sources of information. Analyst research from Ben with context to the industry landscape of the Hybrid Desktop and User Context Security, and Technical product capability available today from RES on how to deliver the Hybrid Desktop, ITaaS and User Context Security Management services to your users. It promises to be an interactive discussion with demonstration, real life anecdotes, and a dash of witty banter. We hope you can join us.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. ET
Register Here
Presenters:
Benjamin Gray, Principal Analyst at Forrester is a leading expert on business-class PCs and desktop operating systems and also researches business-class mobile devices, mobile operating systems, and mobile device management solutions. Ben’s research and analysis have been widely cited in the press, including business media outlets such as The Associated Press, Bloomberg, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal and industry media outlets such as Computerworld, eWeek, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, and NetworkWorld.
Jeff Wettlaufer, Sr. Director Global Product Marketing, RES Software has been in the industry for 20 years, and has specialized in Network Management, Infrastructure Consulting, Client deployment, Systems Management and Client Virtualization. Jeff joins RES after 10 years at Microsoft in the System Center product group, and has spoken around the world at technical conferences, keynote demonstrations and user groups. Jeff is also active across social channels, blogging and twitter included.
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