November 28th, 2011
Largest water and sewerage company in the United Kingdom turn to Desktone and Molten Technologies to meet desktop needs of internal staff and contractors
Chelmsford, MA–– Molten Technologies and Desktone announces a contract with Thames Water’s lead service integrator, using Desktone for the provision of virtual desktops to Thames Water. Using its desktops-as-a-service (DaaS) platform, Molten will support a substantial portion of Thames Water’s third party and internal staff desktop.
Molten Technologies is a specialist in virtual desktops and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), and will build and run the service inside a Thames Water-managed environment using a Desktone platform. Molten Technologies recently signed an agreement with Desktone as their premier partner in Europe and this deal establishes Molten Technologies as a key Desktop as a Service (DaaS) provider to enterprises across Europe.
The appointment of Molten Technologies' Desktone solution followed a substantial period of comparative piloting activity.
Thames Water CIO Aiden Heke said: "Our decision to invest in virtual desktop technology demonstrates our innovative approach and our long-term commitment to contain costs and boost staff productivity by improving flexibility and security. This supports our main aim of delivering the best possible service to our 14m customers."
Molten Technologies CEO Robin Tapp said: “This deal solidifies Molten Technologies’ position as a leading specialist providing virtual desktop services to the Enterprise. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is complex and expensive unless you have the right expertise. Our experience in large end-user desktop environments, coupled with the technology choices that we have made for our clients, means that we can provide a simple SLA model, so that our clients can enjoy the cost-saving and flexibility benefits of virtual desktops without the risk.”
About Desktone
Desktone is changing the way people buy and manage desktops. Desktone pioneered the concept of cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service (DaaS), the easiest and most affordable way to deploy hosted virtual desktops. The Desktone Cloud, Desktone’s DaaS offering, provides all of the benefits of virtualized desktops without any of the hassles. By delivering virtual desktops in the cloud, Desktone enables enterprises to rapidly provision desktops to users connected on any device, anywhere, without the upfront costs and complexity of traditional desktop virtualization—transforming desktops from a CAPEX to OPEX item. Founded in 2007, Desktone is funded by Highland Capital and Softbank and is headquartered in Boston, MA. For more information, visit www.desktone.com.
About Molten Technologies
Molten Technologies provides cloud-based desktop infrastructure services to large enterprise organisations. Its Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering enables businesses to provide secure desktop computing environments to their employees that can be scaled in line with business demand and provisioned on a pay-per-use basis. With DaaS, organisations have access to unlimited desktop computing resource and can retain tight control over the security and management of their software services and data. Molten Technologies is headquartered in London, UK. For more information and a demonstration of DaaS in action, please visit www.moltentechnologies.com.
