"More and more enterprises are looking to deliver cloud and mobile applications, which should drive this space," Waldman says. "It just may take a long time." Provisioning systems and integrating them with legacy applications can be challenging, creating a hurdle for some organizations and holding back adoption. If for example, employees use thin or zero clients as their primary desktop, that requires their mobile devices to have a constant connection to the Internet to access the desktop. While mobile connectivity is good, "there are still plenty of dark spots out there," he says, leading some CIOs to worry about implementing a solution. The more players like HP, Dell, Microsoft and to a lesser extent Cisco, offer end-to-end hardware and software solutions, that could ease the on-boarding process, he says.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at BButler@nww.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.
