A Closer Look at the Different Technologies that Aid the Mobile Workforce

A Closer Look at the Different Technologies that Aid the Mobile Workforce

There was a time when employees were able to finish their tasks within stipulated time period. However,
the emergence of globalization and the subsequent age of cut throat competition changed the global
business environment completely. No amount of time was good enough to fast track business success.
This made the concept of 9 to 6 jobs unsuitable for current business set up and made way for mobile
officing. The concept of mobile officing helped employees to finish their tasks whenever and wherever
they want. Moreover, the recent advancements in technology also popularized the concept of mobile
officing. Let's look at some of the recent technological advancements that have made it easy for remote
employees to connect immediately to their office desktops.

Desktop Virtualization
Desktop virtualization is the concept of separating the desktop environment from the client. The concept
of desktop virtualization is extremely useful for the mobile workforce as it allows efficient management of
office work through remote desktop access. What makes desktop virtualization unique is the fact that
each employee gets a completely self-contained unit with its own operating system, peripherals and
application programs. Apart from facilitating secure access, it reduces downtime as well as additional cost
of deploying new applications.

SSL VPNs
SSL VPNs are Secure Sockets Layer virtual private networks that help mobile and offsite users to quickly
and securely access emails, files, Intranets and applications with the help of a standard web browser.
SSL VPNs are scalable, cost effective, secure, easy to use and easily manageable solutions that depend
on SSL protocol or TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol to encrypt and secure the tunnel between
endpoints. The important advantage of SSL VPNS is that it does not require the installation of client
software application as in the case of IPSec VPNs.



Load Balancers
The concept of load balancing is extremely necessary these days as a great percentage of companies
and enterprises are encouraging the concept of mobile officing. When more and more employees access
office desktop virtually, it can overload the servers thereby affecting performance, security and
availability. That is where load balancers come useful. Load balancers distribute workload and thus
achieve increased resource utilization, throughput, and reliability.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
Developed by Microsoft, RDP provides the user the ability to directly access their office desktop PCs,
both virtual and physical from anywhere, anytime and any device.

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