A survey of 546 Irish businesses has revealed that more than a quarter (28%) are currently in the process of deploying or planning desktop virtualisation projects, while 46% have a project planned for 2012.
Carried out in December of 2011 and commissioned by DataSolutions, the survey found that 16% of respondents are looking at an immediate project desktop virtualisation.
Despite a healthy growth in the market for desktop virtualisation solutions, Michael O’Hara, managing director, DataSolutions, believes the major push to desktop virtualisation is yet to come in the next twelve months.
"Throughout the second half of 2011 we saw a major uptake in desktop virtualisation, particularly in the government and corporate sectors. Four times more deals were completed in this time, across all sectors, when compared to the first half of the year, and this trend has continued into 2012." said O’Hara. "With many Irish organisations still in the process of migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7, and with Windows 8 on the horizon, we are finding the desktop virtualisation market exceptionally strong this year."
According to the survey report, a primary driver of desktop virtualisation for these Irish businesses continues to be cost, which includes a reduced total cost of ownership compared with standard desktop fleets and the reduction in Windows 7 migration costs. A similar survey carried out in 2010 produced largely similar results, but this year mobility and the consumerisation of IT are emerging as important factors in the move to desktop virtualisation.
A global survey by Citrix on the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon has reported that nearly half of organisations surveyed (49%) "intend to leverage their desktop virtualisation investment to support BYOD policies".
Desktop virtualisation technology supports BYOD policies, says DataSolutions, by removing the reliance on standard corporate supplied PC’s. Using desktop virtualisation, desktops, applications and data can be securely and centrally managed in the data centre and delivered to all types of users across many different devices.
"The cloud will be a key driver of desktop virtualisation in the coming months," Grace O’Rourke Veitch, Irish country manager, Citrix. "Consumers have been using cloud based applications for some time now, whether they were aware of it or not, and are comfortable with an array of devices for accessing their applications.
"This has been a big factor in the explosion of personal devices in the workplace. For the enterprise, security issues surrounding these devices is a major concern, and at last June’s Citrix Virtual Computing Forum, 52% of the Irish IT managers surveyed at the event, said security was their main concern with cloud environments. Desktop virtualisation addresses this challenge, ensuring data is secure no matter how it is accessed."
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