The recent VMworld conference highlighted that virtualisation solutions are beginning to find their way into the mainstream, with VMware demonstrating the uses that the technology could have on PCs and even mobile phones.
A recent article from CNET News suggested this could help to move such technology into a greater variety of business uses.
VMware highlighted the potential of "employee-managed virtualisation" which would allow people to run a corporate-managed virtual machine on a personal computer, enabling the corporate partition to deal with only company-approved applications and allowing the personal half to cope with other programmes.
This, according to the firm, would help address the differences between employees' computer preferences and businesses' IT needs.
The news provider stated that VMware already has the technology which could support this idea and allow the "brains" of a PC to run on a central server, with the employee's local machine simply serving as a mechanism to show the display and capture mouse clicks.
This could have significant implications for mobile working, as team members' business PCs would be housed at the office and transferred to wherever they are working from via the internet.
Recent research by employee access management company Imprivata highlighted that desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly popular across the globe, with almost three-quarters of firms questioned saying they are investigating or plan to implement such solutions this year.