Gartner zum Einsatz von privaten Notebooks im Unternehmen

Gartner said that this shift in the balance of costs should not be surprising. Although costs are moved to the user, they are not eliminated. Nevertheless, Gartner believes that for many organisations, this consideration may initially discourage the launch of an employee-owned notebook program because indirect costs are rarely made explicitly visible, and only direct costs are considered.  Discussions with Gartner clients highlight that cost and licensing constraints of the Microsoft Windows OS also remain an inhibiting factor for many organisations.

Although a purely cost-based argument looks unlikely anytime soon, Gartner believes that there are other strong motivations for organisations to consider employee-owned notebook programmes based on a locked and well-managed VM approach:

·        They provide a mechanism for "containing" the operational environment of existing rogue users. This category usually consists of executives and key knowledge workers, whose personal influence is sufficient to be able to flout corporate policy (with exceptions permitted on the basis of trust).

·        They help overcome user dissatisfaction arising from the (necessary) functional restrictions imposed by IT management and security initiatives. Although it would be difficult to quantify through a cost-benefit analysis, a happier user is generally considered to be more productive.

·        They improve the level of predictability of ongoing management and security responsibilities on user notebooks. Once the user has his or her own "space" on the notebook to install personally owned applications and data, the profile of the corporate VM is much more likely to remain consistent and highly standardised.

Additional information is available in the Gartner report "The TCO of Employee-Owned Notebooks Running a Corporate Virtual Machine." The report is available on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?ref=g_search&id=662310&subref=simplesearch.

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