CEO of leading remote workforce technology provider offers predictions for the future of business IT
BOSTON – December 3rd, 2024 – 2025 will be a year the digital workspace takes center stage, say experts at Leostream Corporation, creator of the world-leading Leostream® Remote Desktop Access Platform. Karen Gondoly, CEO of Leostream and a 20-year IT veteran, offered the following predictions regarding technologies, concepts and trends expected to evolve and exceed our expectations in 2025:
Digital Employee Experience (DEX) is the new acronym to know
Organizations will recognize the link between employee satisfaction and productivity, and Digital Employee Experience (DEX) encompasses a host of advantages from user-friendly interfaces to personalized workflows that enhance employee engagement.
“Organizations that adopt tools that monitor and improve DEX, such as data analytics to tailor resources to individual user needs, will have happier, more loyal, and more productive workforces, to the great advantage of the business,” said Gondoly.
Digital workspaces become ubiquitous
In 2025 organizations will broadly adopt digital workspaces that provide the distributed workforce with consistent and secure access to resources. These environments will be more flexible and heterogenous than prior iterations offered as single-vendor stacks by industry giants.
“IT teams will realize that crafting a more vendor-independent digital workspace solution allows them to future-proof their infrastructure against unanticipated technology disruptions,” she said. “There are many up-and-coming providers in this space, and they’ll get increased attention.”
The workforce goes fractional
A traditional 9-to-5 work model is increasingly obsolete, especially as more workers are freelancers, contractors, part-timers, and gig economy participants. Businesses in any industry can reap benefits from these fractional workers, who often bring specialized expertise to the team.
“To attract and retain fractional workers intelligently, IT pros need to focus on the tools and resources they need to do their jobs, on policies around the use of those tools and resources, and on monitoring or auditing to ensure those policies are successful,” she said.
Risk management strategies embrace the cloud
The constant specter of cyber threats and the need for data protection will compel more IT pros to situate data and applications in the cloud not solely for availability as in the past, but for improved security, compliance, and disaster recovery capabilities.
“The Change Healthcare data breach disrupted the medical industry in 2023, and the CrowdStrike incident disrupted almost everything,” said Gondoly. “Cloud-based risk management solutions will be more valued for business continuity and maintaining productivity.”
Weathering industry storms
IT implementations will increasingly be seen as a line of defense against external forces that can disrupt a market segment—another reason digital workspaces will prevail. Beyond cybersecurity needs, there will be efforts to improve business technologies to withstand the impact of climate threats and natural disasters, civil unrest, financial crises, supply chain disruptions, and other factors that can impact an industry.
“Those with modern, flexible, efficient IT environments will have an immense operational edge over those that do not.”
A literal ‘rocket scientist,’ Gondoly earned her B.S. and M.S. in aeronautical/astronautical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working summers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. She has led product management at Leostream for more than 15 years and has been CEO since 2016.
The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform for hosted desktops and workstations offers a comprehensive solution for remote access to maintain productivity, control costs, and ensure security with strict authentication and authorization built on zero-trust concepts. Its connection management system eliminates clunky corporate VPNs with an ultra-efficient gateway that gives users access to only the specific resources they have permission to use, automatically, regardless of their location or device. The Leostream Platform shines even in environments that rely on complex, specialty applications like energy and science; large files such as media and entertainment; real-time performance like financial services; and bulletproof network security like government and defense.
About Leostream
The Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform embodies over 20 years of Leostream research and development in supporting customers with hosted desktop environments, including VDI, hybrid cloud, and high-performance display protocols. It provides the world’s most robust desktop connection management and remote access feature set, allowing today’s enterprises to choose the best-of-breed components to satisfy their complex security, cost, and flexibility needs while working with them as they evolve into tomorrow. Follow Leostream on LinkedIn and X.
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