1. Taking Control of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
with Desktops as a Service (DaaS)
Danny Allan
December, 2012
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2. Agenda
Bring Your Own Device: Why now?
Implications for IT
Desktops as a Service
About Desktone
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3. News on the BYOD front
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4. Why is BYOD happening now?
1. Consumerization of IT
2. Mobile device explosion
3. Impending expiration of WinXP support
4. Desktop refresh following technology
recession
5. Energy awareness
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5. Trends in the BYOD Movement
• Forrester Consulting reported that the number of virtual desktop
deployments will grow from 27% to 46% in the next two years.
• CDW found that 90% of businesses are considering or implementing
client virtualization projects, most of them within the next 12 to 24
months
• 451 Group (Dec 2011): InfoPro survey on desktop virtualization, all
of the respondents have indicated that desktop virtualization is on
the roadmap for 2012.
http://www.good.com/resources/Good_Data_BYOD_2011.pdf
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6. Agenda
Bring Your Own Device: Why now?
Implications for IT
Desktops as a Service
About Desktone
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7. 1. Ensure Corporate Desktop Security
Manage
Ensure the desktop and
OS have the needed AV,
FW, patches and config
Assess Protect
Assess user compliance Defend the desktop
with business conduct from malicious and
guidelines unauthorized access
Deliver
Verify that the delivery
of the desktop is not
monitored or altered
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8. 2. Determine Hardware Support Model
Should the enterprise
officially endorse a specific Does the employee or
type of hardware the enterprise support
endpoint? the hardware?
Should the enterprise
implement an MDM
Support
(mobile device Define the necessary lines
management) platform? for endpoint support &
responsibility
Should the enterprise
contribute a stipend for
a device warranty?
Who is responsible for
the security and patch How will this impact my
management of the responsibilities for license
endpoint software? compliance?
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9. 3. Ensure Business Continuity
What happens if the
hardware device is lost or Will the enterprise
stolen? provide a backup device
when needed?
Will productivity suffer if
the enterprise updates
Business
their applications or
desktop environment?
Continuity
Minimize the disruption to
the business
Will there be disruption
to the business if the
employee “upgrades”
Is there a system in place
their device?
for provisioning new
devices in the event of an
incident?
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10. 4. End User Experience and Performance
Will business productivity
be affected if the Are the employees close to
performance is degraded? the data centers they
interact with?
Are there specific
communication protocols
Performance
that need to be Ensure an optimal
implemented? experience for all users of
the corporate assets
Do some devices offer a
degraded level of
performance compared
Does a tablet form factor
to others?
offer the same
performance as a laptop
or desktop?
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11. Agenda
Bring Your Own Device: Why now?
Implications for IT
Desktops as a Service
About Desktone
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12. Evolving Challenge of Desktop Management
✗ IT Consumerization (iPad, Macs)
✗ Windows 7 Migration
✗ Mobile Employees
✗ Costs out of Alignment
✗ Security/IP Concerns
2008
IT Datacenter
1990
Native Desktop VDI Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI)
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13. What Do We Mean by Virtual Desktops?
 Centralized Management
Compute &
Storage  Any Device
 Lower Cost
Virtual Desktops
User Device
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14. Evolution of Desktop Management
✗ IT Consumerization (iPad, Macs) ✗ Large Startup Costs
✗ Windows 7 Migration ✗ Very Complex
✗ Mobile Employees ✗ Poor Performance Virtual Desktops
✗ Security/IP Concerns ✗ It’s Anti-cloud
✗ Shrinking Budgets
2008
IT Datacenter Cloud
1990
Native desktop VDI Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI)
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15. Making it Easy for IT to Embrace BYOD
1. Enhances security and makes it easy to enforce
– Data resides in a secure and compliant data center
– Restricting online access can become a reality
– Defining security boundaries is now easy
2. Support the corporate desktop – not the device
– Resources can be assigned to more strategic initiatives
3. Boost workforce productivity
– Hardware downtime is not productivity downtime
4. Ensure a positive user experience
– Supports the “Consumerization of IT”
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16. Agenda
Bring Your Own Device: Why now?
Implications for IT
Desktops as a Service
About Desktone
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17. Who is Desktone?
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18. 3 Clicks to a Desktop
1 Create
Virtual
Desktop
2 Assign to
Users
3 User
Login
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19. Summary
– Market momentum of desktop virtualization is exploding
– BYOD is already here - how the enterprise chooses to embrace this
shift will be a defining business culture
– IT teams should seek to understand and embrace the next generation of
employees … or risk becoming an impediment to the business
– Desktops as a Service are an excellent way to embrace the BYOD
movement while maintaining essential controls
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20. Thank You
Questions?
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