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6 End-User Computing For Dummies, Nutanix Special Edition These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. environments have stayed static. They exist to allow workers to access workloads and applications that power the business. Second, two paradigms have shifted dramatically: » The breadth of application locality: Applications used to run in one place. That is far from the case today. » User demand for flexibility in device and location: No longer are many willing to be tied to a desk all day, every day. As the business landscape has transformed with new technolo- gies becoming available, the end-user computing landscape has transformed to match. Today, companies exist with a physical presence that's nothing but a post office box while others have sprawling campuses and employees scattered around the globe, all of whom access applications that run in the data center as well as the cloud. Behind these companies are armies of employees demanding the ability to use any device they want from anywhere in the world. From smartphones to high-end laptops and from middle America to Antarctica, employees want "anytime, anywhere" end-user computing capability. Today, at the current stage in the evolution of this critical envi- ronment, it's possible to provide just that. Understanding the Critical Components in an End-User Computing Environment As you look around a typical organization today, the physical end-user computing environment may not look that dissimilar from the ones that sprung up in the '80s and '90s. Look a little deeper, however, and you notice some radical differences. The basics are similar between the two eras. In most organiza- tions, you see some kind of box on a desktop with a keyboard, mouse, and screen, but what that device actually is may be very different. That device, though, is the user's entry point into your