A New Year: 2014 Wrap-up and Predictions for 2015

January 23, 2015
By Moka5

1. What were the biggest trends in Enterprise Computing in 2014?

In general we would say that 2014 was really a “wait and see” year in general for the BYOD/Mobility space. Large enterprises are still in POC evaluation mode as far as large scale deployments go with small and medium sized being slightly more aggressive due more to a lack of legacy endpoint management technology and management resources then strategy. The Mobile Iron IPO came and went with the stock trading only marginally higher than its offer price today, the Good IPO didn’t happen, and the much vaunted AirWatch/VMWare integrated product didn’t happen (or a detailed description about its ultimate realization (blog posts notwithstanding) – which point to both issues with the current state of EMM technology and it’s relatively limited acceptance in enterprises. Knox by Samsung was a sound idea – an OS level container – that was marred by flawed execution and deployment.

2. What are Moka5’s IT predictions for the year 2015?

2015 is going to be very interesting. As more convergence happens with client-side technologies (such as virtualization, file sharing, mobility, and endpoint management) the enterprise mobile estate begins to count notebooks as well as devices, and containers become more mainstream across all devices, we could finally see the Year of BYO happen in reality and not just in analyst pieces!

Predictions: 2015 will finally see large and medium sized enterprises embark on meaningful (>500) BYOPC deployments. It will also be the Year of the Container. Cloud desktops will also figure more prominently in the IT landscape as more and more enterprises look to off-load their reliance on native, locally resident applications. With the continuation of high-profile hacks, IT security – specifically distributed or mobile security will be a renewed priority for many organizations. No one wants to be the next headline and as the stakes go increasingly higher, the need for enhanced security that does not inhibit end-user productivity is becoming increasingly more of a requirement. As Docker and server-side containers have started capturing the imagination of IT looking for virtualization alternatives, client-side containers will also come into the mainstream. Partially as an outgrowth of the BYO/PC and cloud predictions partially as the reality of enterprise mobility and the attending management and security challenges come to the fore, client-side containers will prove the simplest, most secure, and most economical way to provision desktops – both corporate and end-user owned.

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