Jeff Fisher from Desktone has posted some thoughts on desktop virtualization.
One interesting scenario he paints is a future where employees will be expected to provide their own physical PCs that corporate IT departments will simply stream a virtual PC desktop to.
While it’s not uncommon today in certain industry verticals, such as defense and healthcare, for virtual workspaces to be served out to execute within an isolated sandbox on an unsecured host (vendors like Kidaro and Sentillion come to mind), the host is almost always a corporate asset.
I don’t know the extent to which Jeff’s prediction will come to fruition. Though I wonder how PC hardware vendors are evaluating the impact of desktop virtualization on their future.
