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January 20th, 2012 » Virtual desktop infrastructure continues to be the little technology that could. Despite years of criticism, it has nonetheless managed to find millions of seats in the enterprise. New generations of cloud-based desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offerings are looking to lower capital costs and infrastructure complexity even further, while at the same time increasing flexibility on the client side to accommodate all those new smartphones and tablets out there. Desktone's David Grant explains how this market is finally coming together.
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January 17th, 2012 » Desktone’s Desktop Cloud architecture is helping redefine VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) solutions by lowering upfront costs, eliminating complexity and making it easier to scale systems.
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January 16th, 2012 » Over the years, Apple has earned a less-than-stellar reputation among purchasers of enterprise desktops. Macs were seen as overpriced to begin with. And Apple didn't offer huge discounts for bulk purchases, like the PC makers. Plus, Macs didn't come with the ecosystem of integrated productivity and management apps that are taken for granted in the Windows world.
But the latest numbers don't lie. Apple's U.S. market share for the quarter ended Sept. 30 jumped from 10.5% to 11.3%, according to IDC. And Apple's global Mac shipments increased by 20%. Gartner puts Apple's U.S. market share at 12.9%, with a 21.5% growth in PC shipments. -
January 12th, 2012 » Paladin Building Services moved from on-premise VDI to a Desktop-as-a-Service offering from Desktone. Jeffrey Aibel of Paladin Building Services explains why.
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January 5th, 2012 » For the past several years, services providers have been building out their own data centers, equipped with best-of-breed hardware and other components, to offer clients Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). In the process, these providers can now offer a flavor of cloud computing, meeting end-user demand for low cost, scalable IT environments.
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December 20th, 2011 » It may look like a normal desktop environment. But if you’re using software from one of two Massachusetts companies — Desktone or Virtual Computer — that desktop you’re looking at is actually hosted in the cloud. It's not the kind of virtual reality you'd see in The Matrix (or even Tron). But unlike in those movies, the technology offerings from Desktone and Virtual Computer are actually a reality.
