Enterprise IT has experienced a rapid evolution over the past few years.
Cloud has revolutionized storage and brought with it a host of new and
emerging information security challenges. Consumer adoption of mobile
technology has forced enterprise networks to operate in a multi-platform
environment in which the technology is largely selected, procured, and
controlled without the advice or consent of IT. Of the many lessons learned
in recent years, perhaps the most crucial is that IT must take a proactive
approach to adopting emerging technologies, rather than being forced to react
to and mitigate the inevitable fire drills. Of the transformative
technologies now gaining traction in the enterprise, Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI) has stayed relatively under the radar, but is
nonetheless poised to play an integral role in the ongoing IT evolution. This
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