Making the Case for Virtual Workstations

Some gauge their value to an organization by the size or location of their office. For engineers, the measuring stick has long been their workstation specs. The more bells, whistles and horsepower under their desks, the higher their rank in the pecking order.

Those days are rapidly fading as engineering teams realize mobility and collaboration not only improve their productivity, but unchain them from their desks. Thin and light have become the new bragging rights, but engineers still require high-octane workstation muscle. That’s where virtual workstations come in.

All the benefits of mobile computing and collaboration without their computing and security compromises are now available to engineers. Thanks to a slew of new technology advances, including virtual graphics processing units (GPUs), compression capabilities and next-generation secure endpoints, organizations can finally tap into the benefits of virtualized environments for hardcore engineering work as an alternative or a complement to traditional workstation hardware.