Virtual Client Computing: Five Key Trends for 2024

The IDC Market Perspective discusses key trends in the virtual client computing market for 2024, including market disruptions due to corporate changes, a shift from application modernization to AI, the emergence of AI employees, rebalancing of the virtualization portfolio, and regional differences in opportunity and solution requirements. IDC recommends vendors to clarify their focus, view AI agents as an opportunity for expansion, and explore the possibility of creating an endpoint employee-as-a-service offerings."2024 represents the first year operating in the largest market disruption in virtual client computing since the late 1990s," said Shannon Kalvar, research director, IT Service Management and Client Virtualization, IDC. "The investments that customers and suppliers make now will impact their options through the next decade, making this a critical juncture for everyone in the end-user computing space."