The continuing growth of the mobile workforce and its insatiable demand for access to corporate data from a variety of different types of networks and devices is coming together with the accelerating adoption of virtualization. Unfortunately, the myriad benefits of the technology come with infrastructure drawbacks, such as scaling challenges for large deployments and inherent latency issues associated with WANs, thus reducing performance. F5, whose BIG-IP remote access products manage and accelerate network traffic, just announced support for multiple virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions including Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View and Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. While it may be hard to calculate just on numbers the return on investment that the F5 technology will afford, the benefits are real, reports St. Louis-based Distribution Management, which decided to virtualize its entire network infrastructure and desktop environment on VMware View.