Companies want their employees “back” in the office. In recent weeks, companies such as Amazon, Google or Microsoft have more or less formally communicated to their employees that the era of total teleworking is over. Even Zoom, the company that has been synonymous with remote work during the pandemic, has asked its employees to return to the office.
The message they have given in all cases is similar: together we work better, we are more creative and we promote innovation. But at the same time, these companies, like millions of others around the world, recognize that they can no longer force their workers to be fully present. He hybrid work is imposed. In some cases, employees will have the option to telework up to four days per week and in others, they will only be able to do so on a temporary basis. But in any case and implicitly, organizations recognize the obvious: For hybrid work there is no turning back.
But whether because they are convinced of the advantages that the new model brings, or because they have discovered that offering the possibility of teleworking is one of the extra-salary benefits that candidates value most, it is worth asking how organizations can ensure that productivity is maintained; that have the appropriate infrastructure to support workers who need their experience be the same both inside and outside the office.
And of course we are not talking about the worst practices, such as the infamous one that involves installing spyware on workers’ laptops, but about how to “empower” remote work, so that the process of getting to and from the office is completely transparent: “plug and play.”
Productivity and virtualization
On several occasions we have talked to you about how VDI solutions can become the most suitable platforms. A VDI infrastructure is a set of technologies that do is virtualize employee desktops of a company, typically hosting them in its own data center. In this way, usually using a web browser, workers can access the same desktop that they are used to using in their company (information, applications, corporate email, etc.) from any device.
The experience is the same as if you were working on a desktop installed on a physical computer, with the difference that almost all processes occur remotely and centrally, which offers high scalability and flexibility, greater storage space, increased information security and protection of business continuity processes.
Among the advantages that are usually associated with these platforms are the delivery of an experience suitable for employees (regardless of their location), which improves application protection and business data, simplifies management and there is more agility to scale vertically and horizontally based on business needs.
Associated with desktop virtualization, technologies such as vApp (short for virtual application or virtuality), software environments that allow applications to be packaged and distributed so that they run in isolation in a virtualized environment and that make sense in scenarios such as engineering, architecture, etc. when perhaps the professional does not need access to a full desktop, but does need to enjoy all the power of an application that he could not run in the same way on his own computer.
On the other hand, by encapsulating an application and its dependencies in a vApp, they can be easily moved between servers and virtualization platforms without having to worry about differences in the underlying configuration or environment. This makes the Application management is more efficient and facilitates migration and scalability in cloud environments and virtualized data centers.
Companies like Airbus, for example, regularly use virtualized applications and desktops to improve the work of their professionals and according to a report by the company VirtualCable, practically all Spanish universities use some type of desktop or application virtualization technology.
The right infrastructure
With all its benefits, desktop and application virtualization can be really demanding on the company’s data center. In this sense, having a modern and high-capacity infrastructure is essential if our objective is that dozens or even hundreds of jobs can be virtualized, thus favoring hybrid work andin loss of productivity.
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