[Quiz] Does Your Company Need Virtual Desktops?

Virtual desktops are capturing attention as the next natural evolution of cloud applications. While the adoption of cloud delivered desktops is expected to increase significantly over the next five years, many organizations are wondering if the solution is a good fit for their needs and if now is the right time to make the transition.

This quick quiz will help give you an idea if virtual desktops are right for your company right now, or if it’s a change that can be added to your roadmap for the future.

1. Do you allow employees to work from home full time / do you employ remote employees?  
   
   Yes
   No

2. Are employees able to work if they unexpectedly can’t get into the office? (Or is it lost productivity?)  
   
   Yes
   No

3. Do you work with third party contractors who have access to your systems, applications and data?  
   
   Yes
   No

4. Do employees ever use non-company issued devices to access corporate applications, data or documents? (In other words, do you have a formal or informal BYOD policy?)  
   
   Yes
   No

5. Do employees handle sensitive data (such as personal health information, credit card information or personally identifiable information)?  
   
   Yes
   No

6. Is your organization in a highly regulated industry such as finance, legal or healthcare?  
   
   Yes
   No

7. Do you set user or group security controls based on employee use case and need?  
   
   Yes
   No

8. Are security controls configured manually on each desktop?  
   
   Yes
   No

9. Does your organization often need to scale to meet seasonal or fluctuating demand (i.e. retail during holiday season or a legal organization handling a large case load)?  
   
   Yes
   No

10. Does IT struggle to keep up with hardware and software support/help demands? Or spend too much time fixing user-caused desktop issues?  
    
    Yes
    No

11. Do software updates happen at inconvenient times, hindering employees’ productivity?  
    
    Yes
    No

12. Is employee mobility important to your company’s success?  
    
    Yes
    No

13. Is an infrastructure refresh or augmentation in your near future?  
    
    Yes
    No

14. Do desktop hardware updates eat into your budget and bottom line?  
    
    Yes
    No

15. Is a merger or acquisition likely within the next few years?  
    
    Yes
    No

Mostly Yes

Your organization faces a lot of modern challenges and would likely benefit from implementing virtual desktops sooner rather than later. Virtual desktop solutions allow for greater control over a wide foot print of devices and employees, improved flexibility for faster response times to changing desktop needs and easier, centralized IT management.

Prepare yourself to adopt virtual desktops by understanding everything that goes into a successful implementation. Learn more with The Virtual Desktop Playbook.

Mostly No

Virtual desktops have many benefits and can likely help your organization in some key areas, but might not be a top need or priority at the moment. Take your time to carefully understand the change and everything that goes into making a successful transition before moving too far down this path.

Learn more about the benefits of cloud delivered desktops >>

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