When thin clients were first introduced to the market in 1995, there was a cultural backlash. Thin clients may have made working with company data less costly and more secure, but from the workers’ perspective, their PC was replaced by a little box connected by a serial cable, with limited graphics that was much slower than the PC they were used to working on every day.

In those early days, even as we swapped the serial cables for network ones, shrunk the cases, and doubled the performance, it didn’t take long before thin clients were banished to niche use cases, becoming the territory of call centers, nurses’ stations and manufacturing plants—often to those workers’ disappointment.

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I don’t envy corporate IT teams today. For every automation or convergence that’s made your jobs easier, you’ve been handed dozens of difficult cybersecurity concerns upon which the fate of your company rests (no pressure).

When my team at Wyse introduced thin clients 22 years ago, it was a different world. What’s interesting to see is that, while Server-based computing and Digital workspaces (I’ll refer to them as VDI for ease of reading) has fallen in and out of popularity over the past few years, organizations need it today more than ever.

Modern security use cases for VDI

There are several use cases for VDI that didn’t exist until the modern era of workforce transformation.

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