Economic indicators for 2013 show a US economy that is poised to rebound and high corporate balance sheets that show companies are still waiting to make critical, strategic investments. And given some of the news that came out of 2012, desktop virtualization and VDI implementation is likely to be a top priority for companies that have been delaying investing in their infrastructure. Let’s look at some of the headlines that signal big trends in IT for 2013:
“Two Thirds of Business-Critical Applications Expected to be Virtualized in the Next Twelve Months”
Nimble Storage did a survey of 476 enterprise IT professionals about their plans for virtualizing mission-critical applications within their organizations, and over half of them have already done so, with two-thirds of them planning to do so in the next 12 months.
Barriers to this trend are the inadequate infrastructure and IT talent within an organization needed to get things rolling. This is likely to favor enterprise IT service providers who enable firms to outsource or automate what they can’t achieve through their current capacity. Look for companies to lean on big providers that can virtualize more of their infrastructure without inflating their personnel.
“Dell completes Quest acquisition in enterprise software push”
Big acquisitions in the VDI space during 2012 by Dell and others indicate that the big tech firms consider virtualization to be a growth market for them. Quest provides all sorts of enterprise solutions, ranging from cloud storage to databases, which Dell will use to strengthen its offerings for mid-range and large corporations. The Quest acquisition also signals how important BYOD, mobile applications and software deployment will be to IT departments in the coming months.
“2013: A Promising Year Ahead”:
2013 will be a year of serious IT investment, and the experts at ComputerWorld gave some interesting forecasts back in December as to what trends that investment will follow in the industry as a whole.
Mobility, cloud computing, productivity and Big Data are the topics that everyone will be talking about over this year, and firms have the capital on hand to make serious investments that they may have been putting off in all of these spaces.
Turning to VDI as an alternative to server-based computing is seen as a big cost saver for enterprise clients who are looking to drive some efficiency in their IT expenditures. As more customers seek to accommodate users with tablets and smartphones, they’ll be looking into BYOD solutions that support those trends while preserving network security.
All of these developments point toward a promising year, both for the big enterprise IT providers and for companies looking to incorporate VDI into their departments. Those changes are likely to have ripple-effects throughout their organizations, reaping benefits from energy efficiency and lower hardware costs to lowered personnel bottlenecks and a happier user-base overall.
How will these or other VDI innovations affect your organization? Share your thoughts in the comments.
