Top 10 vendors that get the consumerization of IT in the enterprise

VMware's pioneering server virtualization technology transformed the data center in the first decade of this century. As the hypervisor became a commodity, however, the company branched out into new areas -- notably, end-user computing. The centerpiece of this strategy, VMware Horizon Suite, aims to enable a cloud-based, mobile workforce with mobile application management, cloud file-sharing and mobile virtualization technologies.

So why isn't VMware higher on this list? Despite years of talk about various VMware Horizon Suite components, only one -- Horizon Application Manager -- is available to the public. VMware talks like it gets consumerization, but we won't really know until more of its end-user computing products hit the market.

—Colin Steele