According to recent survey there is a rapid growth in demand for desktop virtualization. As 90% percent of the organizations are planning to implement desktop virtualization and aim to do so by then end of 2013. The industrial organizations or the IT Companies are opting for desktop virtualization for the betterment and improvement of information security.
The reasons responsible for inclination towards desktop virtualization are secure access to data from the user devices, simple and uncomplicated risk management, business agility for an increasingly mobile workforce and improved security of data as well as applications.
Kurt Roemer, Chief Security Strategist, stated that “Desktop virtualization delivers centralized control and management of desktops, applications and data delivered to any endpoint device. It also offers granular, policy-based access control and supports compliance requirements. It embeds an important infrastructure-level of information governance that enhances risk management, across information security and compliance”.
95 percent of the people, who are considered to be the decision makers for the IT are of the belief that desktop visualization has made strategic approach towards the improvement of security of information possible, irrespective of the fact that whether the IT companies make use of desktop virtualization within their company or not. 97 percent are of the opinion that desktop virtualization would protect their organization from unknown threats related to security. 91 percent of them are of the opinion that it would provide excellent support to compliance needs. According to 89 percent, it would not only prevent the loss of data but would also prevent the disclosure of personal data.
However 74 percent of the people, who are referred to as the senior IT decision makers consider that with the foray of desktop virtualization it would be easy to update the organization’s network of PC in its entirety and computing of devices would also be a simple affair. 65% of the IT decision makers say that the factor that is responsible for their opting for desktop virtualization is the security factor as far as the secure and safe delivery of the data as well as applications is concerned. While according to 61 percent it is the access management factor and for 53 percent the key factors are reporting, monitoring and logging with regards to desktop virtualization.
According to Roemer “As desktop virtualization has matured, and been implemented by organizations around the world, there is increasing recognition of the inherent information security benefits that it delivers,” and “Desktop virtualization is now regarded as a strategic investment that forms a fundamental part of an organization’s IT infrastructure.”
Therefore the organizations, planning to add the feature of desktop virtualization would benefit highly as this desktop virtualization would make it possible for them to create the perfect strategy related to information security in accordance with the business and industry requirements.
About the Author: Shweta Ghoshal is a content writer; she is working with Maketick Solutions (I) PVt Ltd. Maketick is recommending Enterprise Software Services and Enterprise Software Application.
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