Advancements in technology may often make the world overall seem smaller, but they also can make the IT landscape feel infinitely bigger. In recent years, innovations in remote work technology have made it possible or even advantageous to complete tasks in digital workspaces from practically any real-world location.
For the many organizations interested in moving to these virtual work environments for the first time, it’s natural to want to know what they actually look like in 2025.
Key Takeaways:
A digital workspace is a framework for enabling virtual and remote management of an organization’s applications, data, and other IT resources. The goal is to deliver access to apps and data on any device, at any time and from any location, all without being limited by the performance of the device itself.
The underlying technology that makes this boundless delivery possible and constitutes the creation of digital work environments is virtualization. Through virtualization, it’s possible to create a digital, software-based version of something that was once physical hardware. In the case of a digitized workspace, this might entail creating virtual machines or virtual operating systems that any device can access and utilize regardless of physical capabilities.
When it comes to empowering freedom in work, one of the most valuable products of virtualization is virtual desktop infrastructure. With the right VDI solution, IT teams can maximize productivity and gain simplified access to company resources while minimizing the risks associated with remote login.
VDI uses the power of a hypervisor to provide the desktop resources and applications needed for a digital workspace available on demand. Similarly, businesses can opt for third-party desktop-as-a-service options to serve as the foundation for virtual workspaces.
For IT decision-makers looking to understand the virtual workspaces of today, especially for the purpose of virtualizing work at one’s own company, it is important to understand practical and common use cases for VDI and DaaS.
The most prevalent and practical purpose for virtualizing the workplace is to enable remote work. Whether the goal is to adopt a work-from-home philosophy, establish one or more branch offices, or harness the benefits of operating closer to the edge, ensuring that remote workers can operate at the same capacity as those on company premises is a necessity recognized by countless organizations today.
The question remains as to which tasks are most suitable for accomplishing remotely through the use of virtualization. For many companies operating digitally in 2025, the norm is to leverage the virtual workspaces for remote IT management tasks like provisioning datacenter resources, monitoring for and troubleshooting infrastructure issues, and maintaining the IT environment through scheduled upgrades and version rollouts.
Grand View Research reports that the global digital workspace market size was valued at USD 27.33 billion in 2021 and will continue to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 22.3% through 2030. This continued growth is a clear indicator that IT is only leaning further into the idea of using the virtual workspace for remote operations and high-level IT management.
Though more and more companies are moving work to the virtual space, especially as work-from-home becomes a more common want for IT talent across the industry, VDI and similar technology are certainly not anything new. The means to virtualize the workplace have existed for well over a decade and a half, so new adopters might understandably wonder how digital workspaces are improving and what justifies their use.
First and foremost, the right VDI provider simplifies the workspace. A successful workspace in the digital setting should bring about scalability, speed, savings, and increased performance. In the modern day, there is no room for a VDI that makes it difficult for the user to achieve those benefits because of complexity.
Security is another high priority in situations where a user might access internal company resources from an external device. This field of remote access security is constantly improving, due largely to innovations in multi-factor authentication, access control, and zero-trust practices.
The speed at which an organization can begin fully functioning in a digital workspace after adopting a VDI solution is a particularly impressive area of recent improvement. With an effective remote IT infrastructure management plan, it is entirely feasible to achieve full infrastructure deployment on day 0 and comprehensive infrastructure monitoring and support as early as day 2.
Bringing the workspace to the digital realm is a highly modern and technologically efficient strategy, but it hinges upon an organization’s ability to utilize VDI and DaaS technology to the fullest. Keeping in mind that virtualization and hypervisors are at the heart of the technology powering these workspaces, though, it becomes clear that making the best choice of a virtualization platform is even more necessary.
Nutanix AHV is a modern and secure virtualization platform that powers VMs and containers for applications and cloud-native workloads on-premises and in public clouds. AHV provides a full-featured hypervisor built for the hybrid cloud and designed to simplify management while lowering operational costs.
The greatest gift that digital workspaces can bring to a business is freedom: freedom for individual workers and entire teams as well as to the company itself in the ways that it structures the flow of work. A fully modern virtualization platform that powers virtual desktops through the latest innovations can provide a degree of freedom never seen in years past.
Learn more about the ins and outs of virtual desktop infrastructure as well as use cases for desktop-as-a-service.
“The Nutanix “how-to” info blog series is intended to educate and inform Nutanix users and anyone looking to expand their knowledge of cloud infrastructure and related topics. This series focuses on key topics, issues, and technologies around enterprise cloud, cloud security, infrastructure migration, virtualization, Kubernetes, etc. For information on specific Nutanix products and features, visit here.”
© 2025 Nutanix, Inc. All rights reserved. For additional legal information, please go here.