written by: Eric Selken, Global Channel Marketing Manager, Dell cloud client-computing

Over the past year, we’ve seen the massive impact data breaches and content loss can have on all types of organizations, whether it be retail stores, movie studios, or educational institutions.  As these breaches become larger and more prevalent, many organizations have turned to new models of computing like desktop virtualization to make their IT environment more secure, but also to sustain compliance to the multitude of new government or industry-mandated regulations around data and confidentiality.

This is where Dell and our PartnerDirect partners can help by delivering cloud client-computing solutions.  Dell cloud client-computing  approaches the security challenge in three distinct areas:

1. A broad portfolio of software, hardware, and Dell/partner services to allow organizations to easily and effectively adopt desktop virtualization to enable users to access key apps and content in the secure, highly reliable datacenter.
2. Management software that enables simple yet highly powerful user/device policy setting and enforcement to protect who, how, where, and when applications and content are accessed.
3. Wyse thin and zero clients that function as stateless, diskless user endpoints. Wyse zero clients and ThinOS-based thin clients offer zero attack surface, thus rendering them immune from virus and malware attacks.

To learn more about how cloud client-computing solutions are uniquely capable in delivering this new level of security and control, I encourage you to read the latest white paper from Dell on this subject, Protecting Content and Securing the Organization Through Smarter Endpoint Choices.