January 12th, 2012
By Dan Kusnetzky on Zdnet.com
I always find it valuable to learn from a supplier’s customers. This time, one of Desktone’s customers, Paladin Building Services, communicated with me about Desktone and the “Desktop as a Service” concept.
Please introduce yourself and your company
Jeffrey Aibel, President and CEO of Paladin Building Services. Paladin is a commercial building services contractor that provides maintenance services for facilities throughout Florida and Georgia.
What were you doing that needed this type of technology?
We previously used thin clients. The thin clients were getting old and would have been expensive to replace. We selected low cost, remanufactured, desktop machines with Windows 7 and Microsoft Security Essentials running that were less than half the cost of replacement Thin Clients. We do no work locally so all we needed was a good network card. With no internal IT staff, we didn’t want to set up and maintain on-site desktop virtualization infrastructure. We looked at cloud-hosted virtual desktops as a way to ensure reliable in-office and remote access for our employees without the cost and time investment that would have been required for new, in-office infrastructure.
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