VMworld US 2016 Buzz: Secure Digital Workspace of the Future: Embracing the Opportunities Presented by Enterprise Mobility in Financial Services – EUC9160
Adding some more colour to the highlights from my VMworld US 2016 coverage:
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 0 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 1 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 2 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 3 Buzz
- VMworld US 2016: The Day 4 Buzz
This was a session I was interested in as it covers the financial services industry where I currently work and also had my fellow London VMUGer , Simon Gallagher, presenting who I know has been doing a fairly extensive EUC deployment.
Manasee Dash and Harry Labana from VMware hosted with Matt Casper from Prudential, Simon Gallagher from UBS and Billy Matkovich from First Data.
Any project, particularly EUC which covers a raft of VMware, Microsoft and Citrix technologies is going to be hard work and I know Simon has his work cut out for him.
The panelists talking about being on the 3rd version of their evolving VDI platform, trying to give the impression of persistent desktops but delivered by non-persistent desktops.
The session was to talk about the shift in how financial companies are operating now from not just workstations but a user device perspective with smart phones, tablets and laptops used by remote/travelling workers and even entire remote branches.
Employees want smartphone connectivity to enterprise apps and data yet enterprises need to keep it all available, secure and cost effective. Financial companies are under some fairly strict regulations which impact how they can do IT.
What was interesting was hearing how all of the companies are using VDI in some form not to just necessarily have a VDI deployment a but rather a single deployment model for local and remote workers. This may cost more than a physical desktop on a desk but gives them more flexibility.
One of the points was being able to be efficient with a deployment model by using non-persistent desktops yet providing a persistent desktop experience so you are not hampering your staff with a poor experience. App-V and App Volumes AppStacks were the tools of choice on top of VDI.
The balance is creating a VDI environment that is manageable at scale without reducing functionality to still give that usable experience.
As VMworld2016 has made the recording publicly available, you can view the session here:
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