New Survey Shows Secure Mobile Workstyles Driving Desktop Virtualization Demand
December 07 2011 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
According to a new global market study commissioned by Citrix
(NASDAQ:CTXS), securing the explosive growth of mobile workstyles
is on pace to drive a significant spike in demand for desktop
virtualization over the next two years. Fifty-five percent of
companies surveyed expect to roll out new desktop virtualization
deployments for the first time by 2013, with 86 percent citing
security as a primary driver. The top factors driving this growth
included:
- Secure access for mobile and user owned
devices
- Increased app and data security
- Business agility for an increasingly
mobile workforce
- Simplified risk management
“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,” said Kurt Roemer, chief security strategist, for
Citrix.
Other key benefits identified by IT decision makers included the
immediate provisioning and de-provisioning of app and desktop
access at 60 percent, instant isolation of a compromised
application at 54 percent, and the ability to remotely wipe data
from mobile and PC devices at 32 percent.
Eighty six percent of those surveyed believe that desktop
virtualization offers a strategic approach to improved information
security, regardless of whether or not they intend to use desktop
virtualization within their own organization.
Of the senior IT decision makers that will have desktop
virtualization in place at the end of 2013, 95 percent believe it
is very effective at protecting information while providing workers
with fast and effective access to the information they require.
Ninety seven percent said that they expect desktop virtualization
to help their organization respond to new and emerging security
threats.
Benefits at the Device Level
At a device level, 74 percent of senior IT decision makers
envisage using desktop virtualization to instantly update an entire
enterprise’s network of PC and computing devices and sixty six
percent cite the secure delivery of applications and data as a
critical security capability that led to their decision to
implement desktop virtualization. Compliance requirements are also
a key driver to adoption, with 61 percent citing access management
and 53 percent citing activity monitoring, logging and reporting as
important capabilities delivered by desktop virtualization.
“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,”
stated Roemer. “Desktop virtualization is now regarded as a
strategic investment that forms a fundamental part of an
organization’s IT infrastructure.”
Benefits at the Infrastructure Level
Ninety one percent of senior IT decision makers implementing
desktop virtualization say it is very effective at supporting
compliance requirements. Eighty nine percent also say such
solutions protect against the exposure of private data and data
loss.
Centralized, granular policy control enabled by desktop
virtualization allows IT to handle compliance proactively by
allowing an organization to develop an appropriate information
security strategy for its own industry, business needs and risk
profile.
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Sample size
The research for the Citrix Security Index was conducted
independently by Vanson Bourne in October 2011, and is based on
1100 IT professionals across eleven countries. One hundred IT
professionals were surveyed in each of eleven countries including:
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan,
The Netherlands, UK and the USA. Three quarters of respondents were
from organizations of 1000 or more employees, one quarter were from
organizations of 500-999 employees.
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through virtual meetings, desktops and datacenters. Citrix
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