The desktop environment and related application software are separated from the physical client device used to access them due to a software technology called desktop as a Service. A complete desktop environment management system can be created by combining desktop virtualization with user virtualization, application virtualization, and user profile management systems.

Development, security, and operations are all referred to as DevSecOps. It's a culture, automation, and platform design approach that emphasizes security as a shared responsibility across the IT lifecycle. DevSecOps is a logical and necessary evolution in the way development teams think about security. A separate security team 'tacked on' security to software towards the end of the development cycle (almost as an afterthought) and was tested by a separate quality assurance (QA) team in the past. When software upgrades were only distributed once or twice a year, this was manageable. The conventional 'tacked-on' approach to security developed an unacceptable bottleneck when software engineers adopted Agile and DevOps approaches, aiming to cut software development cycles to weeks or even days.