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60 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. » Connection protocols aren't created equally. You have your choice of a number of connection protocols, from the RDP standby to PCoIP to HTML5. Your protocol choice will be dictated by the solution you choose and the types of applications you need to support. » End-user computing is an original use case for hypercon- verged infrastructure (HCI). HCI revolutionized VDI and it continues to do so today, but it can also support your terminal-based workloads as well as your hybrid desktop-as- a-service (DaaS) environment. » DaaS is rising. If your EUC plans don't currently include DaaS, start adjusting them, particularly as hybrid and on-premises DaaS solutions continue to grow in popularity. » Bring-your-own-device (BYOD) isn't dead. No matter what anyone says, BYOD isn't dead and it's here to stay. Your EUC environments must take into consideration that users are becoming more mobile and more remote. As the market sees the rise of a mobile workforce, a combination of BYOD and DaaS is likely to become the new normal. » Total cost of ownership (TCO) is notoriously difficult to nail down in EUC. All kinds of costs may or may not be included in your TCO. Do you include staff costs that are considered "sunk" costs or do you leave them out? Do you include a portion of a storage array you plan to use or do you skip that part? Does your TCO calculation include all of the licensing components you need? It's not just VDI that can be tough to size. » You might not save money with VDI. Then again, the point may not be to save money directly, but to enable flexibility and agility in the desktop environment, which may translate to increased user productivity. » Endpoints are whatever you want them to be. Today, smartphones, tablets, desktops, and laptops can be viable endpoints in an EUC environment. Make sure that your organization can support them all. » Graphics processing units (GPUs) are also rising. The massive core count in GPUs makes them a natural fit for offloading graphics-intensive tasks in a server-based EUC environment. Consider the role of GPUs in your environment and determine if the user experience needs a boost from this hardware.