Nothing is more confusing than the myriad of choices confronting organisations in the desktop and client computing area. Users want to access corporate applications using smart phones, Apple iPads, Blackberries, laptops increasing the need for virtualisation; Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system offers a stable platform for the first time in many years; suppliers such as Citrix, Red Hat and VMWare offer client and server virtualisation software. It is unclear whether organisations can ‘spend to save’ in this area and there are mistakes to be made in selecting homogeneous solutions.
ITCandor is studying the developments in this area by sizing the market for all client devices, profiling customer projects and analysing vendor offerings. Please contact us if you need to make decisions about what to choose – we can help clarify and forecast the key directions to take.
Overview
Corporate Desktop Futures, Overview
Market Shares, Review and Forecast
PCs
PC Market, Q211
PC Market, Q110
PC Market, Q411
Smart Phones
Handset Market, Q211
Handset Market, Q110
Tablets
Defining Tablets
Internet Gaming Consoles
Gaming Console Market, Q211
Vendor Approaches
Kaseya, Q411
Microsoft, Q110
Fat Clients, Intel
Thin Clients, Thinspace
Virtualisation Management, RedHat
Workspace Management, RES Software
IBM, Storage Hypervisors
IBM, Social Business
Virsto, Storage Hypervisors
User Profiles
McGregor, Desktop Virtualisation
Santuary Group, Terminal Services
