Trends like workshifting, consumerization, cloud computing and mobility are transforming enterprise client computing, requiring IT to support far more diverse and dynamic worker profiles.

Many companies have already moved to a hybrid desktop environment in which multiple delivery technologies serve specific groups of users:

• Local VM desktops for mobile workers
  
• Hosted VDI for knowledge workers
  
• Hosted shared desktops for task users
  

For the new class of users whose needs, devices, and locations often change, organizations increasingly focus on providing a hybrid desktop through a variety of delivery technologies depending on the user’s current context. The hybrid desktop poses considerable challenges for IT. These include:

• Ensuring that users can access consistent personalization
  
• Maintaining required configurations
  
• Enforcing different rules and security
  
• Leveraging and integrating these capabilities with existing infrastructure
  
• Tracking the usage of the many elements of the hybrid desktop infrastructure
  

Visit the RES Software website for more information. RES products work with Citrix to optimize user personalization and configurations across all Citrix delivery technologies and overcome these challenges facing IT.

More information on RES Software is available in the following sections:

• RES Software and XenDesktop
  
• RES Software and XenApp
  
• Desktop Transformation and RES Software