We recently surveyed IT professionals at the Citrix Synergy conference about the state of desktop virtualization, so we were excited to read on the VMblog that in 2016 the desktop virtualization market will approach $5 billion! According to a report issued by ABI Research, the market majority will be comprised of large enterprises in North America and Europe, looking to reduce desktop support and management costs with added benefits of enhanced business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities. 

Before entering the IT industry I got my MBA with a special focus on financial accounting and corporate taxes. In my mind there’s a clear analogy from those areas to software asset management (SAM), which I like to call the "Accounting of IT.” The problem with SAM is that IT people would prefer to have a “magic box" that does compliance reconciliation quickly and hassle-free, which unfortunately, isn’t a realistic expectation at all. Have you ever heard of an accounting system that works that way?

In the past four months it seems like I’ve traveled on Sunday nearly every weekend.  I know I’m not alone on this; it’s the nature of the beast in the desktop engineering world.  Their focus is on the end-user, and in order to minimize disruption, things like software rollouts and OS patches have to happen when no one else is working: Sundays and middle of night. I don’t mind the weekend travel too much, but with Father’s Day coming up Sunday, I’m hoping I’ll be able to stay home and relax.  I’m sure a lot of other dads out there agree with me.

But I got to thinking about how our industry relates to Father’s Day.  A big theme you might hear this Sunday is to “Give Dad a Break.”  Well, our business is about giving the desktop administrator a break.