It also allows for consolidated billing and IT expenditure. While cloud services such as these are difficult to establish in a cloud-to-consumer model, using these managed services in a cloud-to-cloud model is not only simple, but brings increased economics as they are more repeatable for the provider and lower costs. All of these services are offered by the managed service provider. The desktop requires a number of adjacent abilities such as desktop maintenance, data storage, backup, identity management, collaboration tools, messaging and many other standard business services. Secondly, the complexity of the desktop environment can be “outsourced” to the cloud. The allows the IT staff to not only control the trusts and relationship between the desktop and third parties, but allows for continuous monitoring of the desktop for business compliance. Running the desktop in a known environment is the first step towards a better security model. Moving to the cloud with a priority on the desktop helps to solve a number of problems and drives the business towards a more efficient business model.įirstly, the virtual desktop enables the centralized management and control that is required with the desktop of today and tomorrow. The desktop has evolved into a mash-up of trusted and un-trusted data and sources. Applications, data and user profile are commonly assembled and built from multiple locations – whether it be a corporate file server, Internet application, web-based browser favorites repository or a cloud based back-up service. The desktop is complex – and even more so as the world becomes more interconnected and interactive. However, it is evident that one type of computing service more than any other can help bring the organization towards the cloud hosted service model and deliver the value that the cloud is able to provide: the desktop. The benefits of a cloud hosted technology service have been widely publicized: availability from anywhere, consumption elasticity, operational expenditure model, pay for value and a number of other items. Almost everything else has been evolving toward a virtualized cloud-hosted computing paradigm. However, in the history of computing, the traditional desktop model is archaic. (The games on those computers were awesome – Load “$” ,8,1) In the history of industry and automation, the personal desktop is a relatively new device that has radically changed the life of many of the workforce. It was only 30 years ago or so that I used my first Commodore VIC-20, followed shortly thereafter by the Commodore 64 and the Tandy TRS-80. The personal computing desktop is something that is both new and old.
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