Traditionally, offices are characterized by doors, walls and windows, desks and computers; a destination for those who are bounded by a workplace environment. But what if the office had no boundaries? No steel and glass to define the walls. A place that allowed organizations to focus on becoming more productive, more creative and more collaborative while maximizing their IT resources, reducing costs, and increasing flexibility. An infrastructure that presented the fewest barriers; where the only limitation is the connection to a network. Are you ready for this paradigm shift? The Virtual Workplace?
As the technologies evolve, society is growing accustom to their “on-demand” life-style. The smart phones and tablets are becoming more powerful, and networks more secure, causing the boundaries in their personal life-styles to begin to vanish. This has now begun to carry over into their work life as well. As a result, people once chained to a desk at the office are increasingly free to attend a virtual meeting at home before breakfast, run a business application from their hotel room after dinner or answer an urgent e-mail over the weekend from the sidelines of a child’s soccer match. In fact, such “virtual work-styles” are fast becoming the corporate norm. This on demand work style is being enabled through virtualization technologies.