What Is Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work Technology and Why Has It Become a Core Business Infrastructure Priority?
Digital workspace and hybrid work technology is the integrated architecture of platforms, tools, and management disciplines that enables employees to access their applications, data, and collaboration environment securely and productively from any location, on any device, and over any network. It encompasses virtual desktop infrastructure, desktop as a service, user profile and environment management, application layering and delivery, application lifecycle governance, email and productivity platforms, IT environment monitoring, and end-user workspace optimization, all working together as a coherent system rather than as a collection of independently managed point solutions.
Hybrid work has transitioned from a workforce accommodation to a permanent operating model for the majority of mid-market and enterprise organizations. According to Microsoft's 2025 Work Trend Index, 85 percent of business leaders report that hybrid work is now a structural feature of how their organizations attract talent, manage real estate, and deliver operational continuity. Gartner projects that by 2027, knowledge worker organizations will operate with an average of 60 percent of their workforce in hybrid or fully remote arrangements. The infrastructure investment required to support this model at scale, across secure access, virtual desktop delivery, application management, and user experience quality, has become a core business technology priority with direct implications for workforce productivity, talent retention, and financial performance.
The challenge for IT leaders managing hybrid work infrastructure is not a shortage of technology options. It is the opposite: the workspace technology market is crowded, rapidly evolving, and disrupted by recent corporate transactions that have meaningfully altered the competitive landscape and the customer experience at major platform providers. Navigating this landscape, selecting the right platform combination for your specific workforce requirements, implementing it correctly across every architecture layer, and managing it to sustain performance over time, requires a level of cross-platform expertise and vendor-independent advisory perspective that most organizations cannot develop entirely in-house.
MK7's Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work practice provides exactly that combination of expertise and perspective. Our team of more than 45 highly experienced virtualization engineers has assessed, designed, deployed, and managed workspace environments on all four major VDI platforms, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops, Omnissa Horizon 8, and Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0, alongside the Liquidware Adaptive Workspace Management suite and the full spectrum of ecosystem technologies that determine whether a workspace platform actually delivers on its promise for users. We have been doing this work for more than three decades, and we approach every engagement with the same commitment: the platform you choose is your decision, and our job is to make sure you choose with complete information and implement with complete precision.
Why the Workspace Technology Market Is More Turbulent, and More Consequential, Than at Any Point in the Past Decade
The VDI and workspace technology market has experienced more significant disruption in the past three years than in the preceding decade, and that disruption has created both challenges and opportunities for IT leaders managing workspace infrastructure.
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in 2023 and the subsequent restructuring of VMware's licensing model created substantial concern among VMware Horizon customers, many of whom experienced significant licensing cost increases under Broadcom's revised pricing structure. The VDI division was ultimately divested as Omnissa, a new independent company continuing to develop and support Horizon 8, but the transition created lingering questions about platform roadmap stability and long-term pricing predictability that have not fully resolved.
Citrix's transition through Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital to Cloud Software Group, where it was merged with TIBCO Software, introduced restructuring, support model changes, and licensing evolution that have prompted many long-standing Citrix customers to conduct formal platform re-evaluations. Some have remained on Citrix and found good value in the new licensing construct. Others have determined that the economics and architecture of Microsoft AVD or another platform better serves their next five years.
Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktops has emerged as the fastest-growing VDI platform in the market, driven by its inclusion of Windows access rights in Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 licensing, its native Azure ecosystem integration, and its consumption-based pricing model that eliminates on-premises infrastructure capital expenditure. For organizations already holding Microsoft 365 enterprise licensing, AVD represents significant untapped value that many have not yet evaluated.
Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 continue to expand their enterprise use cases, particularly for organizations with large variable workforce populations, global distribution across AWS regions, and AWS-first infrastructure strategies.
The net result is a market with four credible, meaningfully different platforms, each with a legitimate place in the competitive landscape, each with specific strengths and specific limitations, and each with a sales organization telling a compelling story about why their platform is the right choice. For IT leaders without a structured, vendor-independent evaluation framework, navigating this market is genuinely difficult. For IT leaders working with MK7's agnostic advisory practice, it is navigable with confidence.
Simultaneously, Microsoft App-V Server reached end-of-life in April 2026, creating an immediate application delivery architecture requirement for organizations still operating App-V Server infrastructure. Organizations in this situation are now running an unsupported platform with no vendor security patch coverage, which constitutes both an operational risk and, in regulated environments, an active compliance gap. Liquidware FlexApp provides the forward-compatible replacement path that addresses this transition with the least repackaging labor and the least operational disruption of any available migration option.
MK7's Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work practice covers ten interconnected solution areas, each with its own dedicated spoke page that provides comprehensive, evidence-based guidance for IT leaders evaluating, implementing, or optimizing that specific capability.
Agnostic VDI
Agnostic VDI is the foundation of MK7's workspace practice, the principle that platform selection should be driven entirely by your organization's specific requirements, not by vendor preference. MK7 evaluates all four major VDI platforms without predetermination, using a structured assessment methodology that produces a comparative analysis covering total cost of ownership, user experience quality, administrative complexity, security architecture, and long-term platform viability. The platform decision is always yours. MK7's role is to ensure that decision is made with complete, accurate, and vendor-independent information.
See the full Agnostic VDI spoke page for comprehensive platform comparison, VDI market landscape analysis, and MK7's evaluation methodology.
Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Desktop as a Service is the cloud-delivered VDI model in which the provider, Microsoft, Amazon, Citrix, Omnissa, or Workspot, hosts and manages the virtual desktop infrastructure, eliminating the organization's need to own or operate on-premises VDI hardware. DaaS converts virtual desktop infrastructure from a capital expenditure to an operational expenditure, scales in direct proportion to workforce size, and delivers global infrastructure reach through the hyperscaler networks. For organizations approaching hardware refresh cycles, managing large variable workforce populations, or pursuing cloud-first architecture strategies, DaaS frequently delivers better total economics than continued on-premises VDI investment.
See the full Desktop as a Service (DaaS) spoke page for platform comparison, cost modeling guidance, and best-fit use case analysis.
Hybrid Work Platforms
A hybrid work platform is not a single product, it is a six-layer architecture integrating secure access, virtual desktop delivery, user environment management, application layering, user experience monitoring, and collaboration tools into a coherent system that delivers a consistent, high-quality work experience regardless of where employees are working. Organizations that treat hybrid work as a platform selection decision frequently miss the architectural complexity that determines whether the overall system actually performs as intended. MK7 designs hybrid work architectures across all six layers simultaneously, ensuring that each layer is configured to work correctly with the layers above and below it.
See the full Hybrid Work Platforms spoke page for the complete six-layer architecture framework and deployment guidance.
VDI Implementation and Management
VDI implementation quality, not platform selection, is the primary determinant of whether a VDI investment delivers on its promise. MK7's implementation methodology, refined across hundreds of enterprise and mid-market deployments, addresses every architecture domain simultaneously: identity and authentication, network architecture, compute and storage infrastructure, platform configuration, profile management, application delivery, security policy, and monitoring instrumentation. MK7 deploys Liquidware Stratusphere UX or a similar monitoring tool from the beginning of every implementation engagement, establishing the performance baseline that drives infrastructure sizing, validates pilot phase readiness, and documents the production deployment's improvement over the baseline.
See the full VDI Implementation and Management spoke page for the complete Assess, Design, Deploy, Manage methodology and platform-specific implementation guidance.
Profile Management
Profile management is the hidden architecture that determines whether a VDI investment succeeds or fails from the user's perspective. Slow logon times, lost personalization settings, and application configuration that resets between sessions are almost always profile management failures, not platform failures. MK7 evaluates and implements Microsoft FSLogix Profile Containers for standard knowledge worker environments and Liquidware ProfileUnity for environments requiring comprehensive user environment management, including application rights management, privilege elevation, context-aware policy delivery, cross-platform profile portability, Windows migration support, and desktop disaster recovery. ProfileUnity's selective profile delivery architecture consistently produces logon time improvements of 50 to 80 percent in environments where profile management has been the primary contributor to logon overhead.
See the full Profile Management spoke page for a detailed comparison of FSLogix and ProfileUnity and guidance on which is appropriate for your environment.
Application Delivery
Application delivery architecture determines how efficiently and reliably applications reach users in virtual desktop environments, and how manageable the application library remains as it grows, evolves, and is required to follow users across platform migrations and OS upgrades. MK7 implements Liquidware FlexApp as the primary application layering platform across Citrix, AVD, Omnissa, and Amazon WorkSpaces environments, providing PackageOnce cross-OS compatibility, FastPackaging for efficient application onboarding, Click-to-Layer on-demand delivery, Session Isolation for diverse user populations, and Micro Isolation for conflict-free multi-application environments. For organizations transitioning from Microsoft App-V following the April 2026 App-V Server end-of-life, FlexApp's import capability provides the fastest and lowest-risk migration path available.
See the full Application Delivery spoke page for complete application delivery architecture guidance and App-V migration analysis.
Application Lifecycle Management
Application lifecycle management is the operational discipline that governs enterprise software from discovery through retirement, ensuring that every application in the portfolio is actively used, correctly delivered, current on security patches, properly licensed, and aligned with the organization's platform strategy. Liquidware Stratusphere UX usage data drives application rationalization decisions, consistently revealing that 20 to 30 percent of managed application portfolios contain applications that have not been actively launched in the previous 90 days. Rationalizing these applications from the portfolio produces direct licensing cost savings of 15 to 30 percent of annual software licensing spend, reduces application management labor, and simplifies the application delivery architecture.
See the full Application Lifecycle Management spoke page for the five-phase ALM framework and the complete App-V to FlexApp transition methodology.
Email and Productivity
Email and productivity platforms, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, are the most frequently used applications in any hybrid work environment and the collaboration foundation that all other workspace technologies support. In VDI environments, Microsoft 365 applications require specific architecture attention: Teams media optimization must be configured to prevent call quality degradation, Outlook OST management must be addressed through Liquidware ProfileUnity's ProfileDisk technology to prevent logon overhead, and OneDrive sync state must be correctly managed across non-persistent desktop sessions. For organizations in regulated industries, Microsoft Purview's compliance capabilities and Trustifi's email security augmentation provide the data governance and threat protection required by HIPAA, SEC, FINRA, and PCI DSS compliance frameworks.
See the full Email and Productivity spoke page for platform comparison, VDI integration guidance, and email security architecture.
IT Environment Monitoring
IT environment monitoring is the practice that distinguishes IT organizations that prevent problems from those that react to them. The critical distinction is between infrastructure monitoring, which reports whether servers are running, and user experience monitoring, which reports whether users are having an acceptable experience. Liquidware Stratusphere UX provides the user experience monitoring layer that infrastructure monitoring tools cannot replace, quantifying and trending the user experience for all users, all machines, and all applications continuously. Stratusphere UX's SpotCheck capability enables on-demand diagnostic health checks of specific users or sessions, and its Process Optimization capability extends value to physical endpoint environments by managing CPU-intensive background processes.
See the full IT Environment Monitoring spoke page for complete Stratusphere UX capability guidance and the case for deploying monitoring from the beginning of every implementation.
End-User Workspace Optimization
End-user workspace optimization is the ongoing discipline of measuring, tuning, and continuously improving the digital work environment after deployment, closing the gap between what the platform delivers and what it is capable of delivering with the right optimization discipline applied systematically. The five most common sources of VDI underperformance, logon time overhead from profile management inefficiencies, application delivery inefficiency from base image bloat, resource contention during peak logon periods, misdirected infrastructure capacity, and accumulated configuration drift, are all addressable through MK7's four-discipline optimization framework without requiring platform replacement or additional capital investment.
See the full End-User Workspace Optimization spoke page for the complete optimization framework, ROI methodology, and engagement model options.
The Liquidware Ecosystem: The Technology Layer That Makes VDI Platforms Deliver Their Potential
Across all ten Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work solution areas, one ecosystem technology family appears consistently as a critical enabler of workspace performance, the Liquidware Adaptive Workspace Management suite. Liquidware's platform-agnostic tools work across traditional physical PC environments and all major VDI and DaaS environments from a single management console, providing capabilities that no single VDI platform delivers natively.
Liquidware ProfileUnity provides comprehensive user environment management, profile containers, ProfileDisk caching, application rights management, privilege elevation, context-aware policy delivery, cross-platform portability, Windows migration support, and desktop disaster recovery. ProfileUnity works across traditional Windows environments as well as Citrix, Microsoft AVD, Omnissa Horizon, Nutanix Frame, and Amazon WorkSpaces.
Liquidware FlexApp provides enterprise application layering and delivery, PackageOnce cross-OS compatibility, FastPackaging, Click-to-Layer on-demand delivery, Session Isolation, and Micro Isolation. FlexApp is endorsed by Citrix through Web Studio integration and by Microsoft through Azure App Attach support for AVD. FlexApp is the recommended App-V replacement for organizations migrating from the now-unsupported Microsoft App-V Server architecture.
Liquidware Stratusphere UX provides continuous user experience monitoring and diagnostics across physical, virtual, and cloud-based Windows workspaces, quantifying the user experience for all users, all machines, and all applications, providing granular logon phase analysis, enabling SpotCheck on-demand health assessment, and extending hardware lifecycle through Process Optimization for physical endpoints.
The Liquidware Essentials bundle, combining ProfileUnity, FlexApp, and Stratusphere UX in a single attractively priced subscription, provides the most cost-effective path to comprehensive workspace management capability across any VDI platform. MK7 includes Liquidware Essentials as the recommended ecosystem layer in virtually every Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work engagement.
The Business Outcomes MK7's Digital Workspace Practice Delivers
Organizations that implement and optimize their digital workspace architectures through MK7's practice consistently achieve measurable outcomes across five business dimensions.
Infrastructure cost reduction is the most immediately quantifiable outcome for organizations transitioning from on-premises VDI to DaaS. Eliminating hardware refresh cycles of 250,000 to 1.5 million dollars every four to five years, converting capital expenditure to operational expenditure, and scaling infrastructure in direct proportion to workforce size improves return on assets by eliminating stranded capital and improves EBITDA margin by removing depreciation from the income statement.
IT operational cost reduction follows from effective monitoring and optimization. Organizations deploying Liquidware Stratusphere UX from the beginning of their VDI implementation consistently report 40 to 65 percent reductions in VDI-related help desk ticket volume, direct IT support labor savings that compound across the platform lifecycle. The reduction in IT operational overhead from well-governed application delivery through FlexApp and well-managed user profiles through ProfileUnity contributes additional operating cost ratio improvement.
User productivity improvement is measurable through Stratusphere UX logon time data. Recovering 50 seconds of logon time per user per day across a 1,000-user organization recovers approximately 20 hours of collective workforce productivity daily, nearly 5,000 hours per year, that was previously consumed by waiting for a session to be ready. That recovery flows directly to the organization's effective sales-per-employee ratio by increasing the productive work hours available from the existing workforce.
Workforce agility improvement from DaaS platform adoption reduces new-hire workspace provisioning from a multi-week hardware procurement cycle to a same-day or next-day workspace provisioning process. For organizations with high new-hire volumes, large contractor populations, or seasonal workforce variability, this provisioning speed improvement directly reduces new-employee time-to-productivity, one of the most directly measurable workforce performance metrics available to HR and operations leaders.
Security and compliance posture improvement from correctly architected VDI and DaaS environments, where sensitive data remains in the data center or cloud rather than on endpoint devices, reduces the endpoint attack surface associated with distributed workforces and supports the audit documentation requirements of HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and other regulated industry compliance frameworks.
Industries MK7 Serves Through Its Digital Workspace Practice
MK7's Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work practice has its deepest client concentration across five industry verticals where the workspace architecture requirements are most demanding and where the business consequences of workspace underperformance are most significant.
Healthcare organizations, including integrated delivery networks, hospital systems, ambulatory care organizations, and specialty practices, require VDI environments that deliver fast, reliable access to EMR systems, medical imaging applications, and clinical documentation tools for clinical staff working across multiple locations and on shared workstations where non-persistent desktop architecture requires particularly robust profile management. HIPAA compliance requirements and the data sensitivity of patient health information make the security architecture of the workspace environment a compliance priority as well as an operational one.
Financial services organizations, including insurance carriers, registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, and community banks, require VDI environments with the session security controls, audit logging capabilities, and application access entitlement enforcement that SEC, FINRA, and PCI DSS compliance frameworks demand. The performance requirements of trading platforms, portfolio management systems, and financial analysis applications frequently require platform-specific configuration attention that generalist VDI implementations do not provide.
Legal services organizations require workspace environments that support the mobility of attorneys and legal staff across office, court, and client locations while maintaining the strict data confidentiality and conflict management requirements of legal practice. The combination of high mobility requirements and strong data governance requirements makes legal services one of the more technically demanding VDI use cases in the mid-market space.
Manufacturing and industrial organizations require workspace environments that support both office-based knowledge workers and plant-floor operational technology users, a mixed user population with significantly different application requirements, device constraints, and network connectivity conditions that benefit from the user segmentation and context-aware policy delivery capabilities of Liquidware ProfileUnity.
Professional services organizations require workspace environments that enable geographic flexibility for consulting, advisory, and project delivery workforces while maintaining the productivity and collaboration tool performance that client-facing work demands. The combination of high Microsoft 365 usage intensity and high location variability makes Teams media optimization and ProfileDisk caching particularly important for professional services VDI deployments.
How MK7 Works: The Assess, Design, Deploy, Manage Methodology Applied to Digital Workspace
Every MK7 Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work engagement follows the Assess, Design, Deploy, Manage methodology, a four-phase structured process that ensures every architecture decision is grounded in measured evidence from your specific environment rather than vendor marketing or generic best practices.
The Assess phase establishes the factual foundation for all architecture decisions, measuring the existing environment through Liquidware Stratusphere UX, profiling the user population by workload type and application requirements, evaluating network readiness across all user locations, documenting security and compliance requirements, and producing a total cost of ownership model that covers all relevant cost components across a 3-year and 5-year horizon.
The Design phase translates the assessment findings into a comprehensive workspace architecture specification that covers all relevant technology layers, VDI platform, profile management, application delivery, monitoring instrumentation, security controls, and network optimization requirements, integrated into a coherent design that accounts for the interaction between each layer.
The Deploy phase follows a structured, phased rollout that begins with a pilot validated by Stratusphere UX performance data before production cutover is approved. The deployment does not advance to full production until the measurement data confirms that the new environment is performing at the level the design specification targets.
The Manage phase provides ongoing workspace environment management for organizations that choose to transfer operational responsibility to MK7's managed services team, covering proactive monitoring, patch management, application library governance, profile management optimization, capacity planning, and quarterly business reviews that present environment performance in executive-appropriate terms.
For organizations not yet certain which workspace solution area best addresses their specific situation, MK7 provides a structured, facilitated working session that evaluates and shortlists options across workspace, VDI, connectivity, and security solution areas concurrently. Schedule a no-cost facilitated workspace solution working session today.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work
What is the difference between VDI and hybrid work platforms?
VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) is the technology that delivers virtual desktop sessions to users, the platform layer including Citrix, Microsoft AVD, Omnissa Horizon, and Amazon WorkSpaces. A hybrid work platform is the complete architecture that enables productive remote and hybrid work, integrating VDI with user profile management, application delivery, secure access, collaboration tools, and user experience monitoring into a coherent system. VDI is one component of a hybrid work platform, not the platform itself.
Which VDI platform should my organization choose?
The right VDI platform depends on your specific workload requirements, your existing technology ecosystem, your cost structure, and your long-term infrastructure strategy. Microsoft AVD is typically the strongest fit for organizations with Microsoft 365 E3 or E5 licensing pursuing a cloud-first strategy. Citrix is typically strongest for organizations with complex, graphics-intensive workloads or demanding security policy requirements. Omnissa Horizon is strongest for organizations with existing VMware infrastructure and specific on-premises or hybrid deployment requirements. Amazon WorkSpaces is strongest for organizations with large variable workforce populations and AWS-first infrastructure strategies. MK7's agnostic VDI evaluation process produces a recommendation grounded in your specific requirements rather than in any vendor preference. See the Agnostic VDI spoke page for a complete comparative analysis.
What is Liquidware and why is it relevant to VDI environments?
Liquidware is an independent software company that produces the Adaptive Workspace Management suite, platform-agnostic tools that work across traditional physical PC environments and all major VDI and DaaS environments. The Liquidware Essentials bundle combines ProfileUnity (user environment management), FlexApp (application layering and delivery), and Stratusphere UX (user experience monitoring) in a single package that is endorsed by Citrix, supported by Microsoft for AVD, and compatible with Omnissa Horizon and Amazon WorkSpaces. MK7 recommends Liquidware because it consistently delivers user environment management, application delivery efficiency, and diagnostic visibility that platform-native tools alone cannot match, particularly in complex, multi-platform, or migration-intensive environments.
How should organizations handle the Microsoft App-V end-of-life?
Microsoft App-V Server reached end-of-life in April 2026 and is no longer receiving security patches. Organizations still running App-V Server infrastructure should prioritize migration to a supported application delivery architecture. Liquidware FlexApp provides the recommended migration path, with an App-V import feature that migrates existing packages without requiring full repackaging for most applications, and with PackageOnce technology that provides cross-OS compatibility to prevent future repackaging cycles.
MK7's application delivery practice conducts App-V library assessments and can design and execute the FlexApp migration as either a standalone engagement or as part of a broader VDI platform implementation. See the Application Delivery and Application Lifecycle Management spoke pages for detailed migration guidance.
What does a comprehensive digital workspace implementation cost?
Digital workspace implementation costs vary significantly based on the platform combination selected, the number of users, the application portfolio complexity, and the scope of network and infrastructure work required. VDI platform licensing for mid-market organizations typically ranges from 20 to 80 dollars per user per month depending on the platform. Liquidware Essentials adds a competitive per-user cost that MK7's team can model specifically for your environment. Implementation professional services for mid-market organizations typically range from 150,000 to 500,000 dollars depending on scope.
Total cost of ownership should always be evaluated across a 3-year and 5-year horizon including all cost components, licensing, infrastructure, IT staffing, and implementation, rather than comparing only the first-year licensing cost of competing platforms.
How long does a VDI implementation take?
A full-scope VDI implementation, from assessment kickoff through production cutover, typically requires 3 to 5 months for mid-market organizations in the 500 to 2,500 user range. The timeline is influenced by environment complexity, application portfolio size, network readiness, and the degree of profile and application migration work in scope.
MK7's phased deployment approach delivers a functional proof of concept within 3 to 4 weeks of project initiation, with production cutover following pilot phase validation through Stratusphere UX performance data.
How does MK7 remain vendor-agnostic when it has partnerships with multiple VDI platform vendors?
MK7's revenue from advisory and implementation services is not dependent on recommending any specific VDI platform. We are authorized and certified across all four major platforms, and we receive the same level of professional compensation for implementing any of them. Our platform recommendations are made based on what the assessment data shows is the best fit for your specific environment and requirements, not based on vendor compensation preferences. The final platform decision is always yours, and MK7 supports that decision with equal technical commitment regardless of which platform you choose. This agnostic positioning is MK7's most important commercial differentiator and the foundation of the trusted advisor relationships we build with our clients over time.
What is the best approach for organizations considering migrating from Citrix or Omnissa (VMware) Horizon to a new platform?
Organizations considering VDI platform migration should begin with a structured, evidence-based evaluation rather than a vendor demonstration. MK7's migration evaluation process starts with Stratusphere UX baseline measurement of the existing environment, establishing the performance standard the new platform must meet, followed by a comparative cost and architecture analysis of the viable migration targets, and culminating in a structured proof of concept that validates the candidate platform against the specific workloads and user populations in your environment. For organizations mid-contract with their current platform, MK7's evaluation process includes contract timing and transition cost analysis as standard components of the recommendation. See the VDI Implementation and Management and Agnostic VDI spoke pages for detailed migration guidance.
What security certifications and compliance frameworks does MK7's workspace practice support?
MK7's Digital Workspace practice has experience designing and implementing workspace environments for organizations subject to HIPAA (healthcare), SOC 2 (professional services and technology), PCI DSS (retail and financial services), FINRA and SEC (financial services), and FedRAMP (federal contracting) compliance requirements. The compliance architecture of a VDI or DaaS environment, including data residency, session recording, audit logging, application access controls, and endpoint data protection, is addressed as an integrated component of the design phase for every engagement with a client in a regulated industry. See MK7's Cybersecurity and Risk Management cluster and the CISO and Security Leaders buyer role page for additional compliance architecture guidance.
How does MK7's managed services model work for VDI environments?
MK7's VDI and IT Environment Managed Services provide ongoing operational management for post-deployment VDI environments, covering proactive Stratusphere UX monitoring, patch and update management for the VDI platform and Liquidware ecosystem tools, FlexApp application library maintenance, ProfileUnity policy management and optimization, capacity planning, help desk escalation support, and quarterly business reviews. Managed services engagements are structured on a per-user monthly basis with scope tailored to each organization's specific operational requirements. Organizations that transfer VDI management to MK7's managed services team consistently report lower IT operational costs and faster mean time to resolution for user experience issues compared to internally managed environments of equivalent scale.
Ready to Design, Implement, or Optimize Your Digital Workspace?
Whether you are evaluating VDI platforms for the first time, navigating a platform migration driven by the VMware or Citrix market changes, implementing Microsoft App-V migration before the end-of-life deadline creates compliance exposure, or optimizing an existing workspace environment that is not performing to user expectations, MK7's Digital Workspace and Hybrid Work practice is ready to help.
Schedule an introductory consultation with MK7's workspace advisory team to discuss your environment, your objectives, and the approach that best fits your situation.
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