The Company Just Bought Your Last Computer

• Prediction #1 – Your company will no longer own your laptop (go ahead, buy that cool new computer)
• Prediction #2 – Your company will spend more on coffee and office supplies than it does on desktop management
• Prediction #3 – You will access your corporate desktop from whatever device is most convenient at the time (just like you do with email today)
• Prediction #4 – You will switch back and forth between work and personal desktops on the same device, without thinking twice
• Prediction #5 – You will never complain about your PC being too slow again

Simon talks with us about the idea that employees will use their own computing equipment, sometime subsidized by the company, and then securely deliver a virtualized corporate desktop to these devices. Contractors, consultants (and increasingly employees) frequently bring their own equipment into customer sites and their networks. Simon discusses how Project Independence will deliver virtualized desktops that are streamed via the network, operate locally when not connected to the data center, and then synchronize data and apps when reconnected. He also talks about how Citrix is partnering with Intel to deliver a Xen desktop client in end user machines, similar what we've seen happen with server equipment, to "dynamically stream a centrally managed corporate desktop, and all related applications, directly into a secure, isolated client-based virtual machine (VM)."

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Music by Michael Reese