Mac or PC, your choice.

Trend: Giving knowledge workers freedom of choice with ‘BYOC’

Knowledge workers are placing high demands on IT for flexibility and choice in their enterprise computing environments. With the convergence of work and personal computing needs, there is a double life many employees lead: yesterday's technology for work, today's technology for everything else. As more employees bring Macs home, they are asking for Macs in the workplace, rather than more traditionally supported Windows-based computers. IT departments are also realizing that there are significant savings to be had by enabling employees to run a secure corporate environment from their personal machines (Mac or PC).

According to Gartner Inc., successful employee-owned notebook programs have the potential to improve manageability of the users’ software environment, offering TCO savings of between 9 percent and 40 percent when compared with company provided notebooks.

Mission: Support all apps, platforms & devices without a management migraine

A premier law firm needed to provide its highly skilled attorneys with a top-notch work environment, but still maintain tightly regulated computing and data privacy standards for security and compliance regulations. Many of the firm’s attorneys wanted the ability to access the Internet and other preferred applications outside their locked-down computing environment. Others were asking for Macs when the organization was entirely set up to support Windows. In addition, most of the attorneys logged plenty of travel between the office, home and client sites and wanted to avoid needing to carry both a locked-down corporate laptop AND a personal laptop in order to manage their personal affairs while on the road.

Solution: MokaFive Suite gives end users choice & IT peace of mind

The law firm gave each attorney a Web link to download a secure LivePC virtual environment using MokaFive Suite. Attorneys now run the compliant, secure virtual environment from any computer of their choice, either Mac or PC, and customize their workspace with the applications they needed to be productive. MokaFive’s desktop virtualization technology enabled IT to create a barrier between the secure corporate LivePC environment and the personal environment on the physical computer so users can safely conduct their personal computing on the same hardware that they use for work. Business doesn’t have to stop if the end user encounters a virus, a quick restart of the LivePC rejuvenates the system to its original clean state to keep business going.

Results: BYOC for today’s workforce is a reality

Every attorney now works from an IT-controlled LivePC that is maintained with the latest security measures and compliance policies, no matter where work takes them. They can choose whether to use a corporate issued Mac or PC or even their own personal machine to access and run the applications that give them a competitive advantage. IT can offer flexibility without needing to manually secure and maintain multiple platforms. The firm also enjoys the ability to offer top-notch recruits the computing platform of their choice and the ability to freely access information, rather than a mandated, standard, locked-down corporate laptop. Best of all, the firm’s IT group can easily manage thousands of desktop environments that users can personalize and customize from a single, central LivePC image.