Desktops as a Service® (DaaS®)

Turning Virtual Desktop Computing into an Outsourced Subscription Service

There is a tremendous amount of industry interest in virtual desktop computing. It has the potential to reduce desktop costs dramatically, improve manageability, and enhance security and compliance. It is complex to implement, however, and that is impeding adoption. Desktone eliminates this complexity by transforming virtual desktop computing into an outsourced, subscription service.

Desktone provides the only solution that delivers desktops as a cost-effective subscription service, which can be hosted at either the enterprise or at a service provider's data center. By enabling desktops as a service (DaaS), Desktone lets enterprises quickly realize the full potential associated with centralized virtual desktops, without having to build and deploy a VDI solution internally.

Desktone-enabled DaaS gives enterprise IT all the benefits of a virtual desktop infrastructure, without the costs or risks associated with selecting, owning and managing the physical resources. IT can continue using the best practices and skill sets already employed for managing desktops in the physical world, including those for OS and application deployment, Active Directory, help desk, and security policies. Enterprise end-users get reliable, anytime, anywhere access to their desktops. And service providers benefit from optimizing use of their data center assets while offering a new, highly scalable, multi-tenant, value-added service to customers.

 

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Desktops as a Service white paperA high-level overview of how the DaaS model transforms virtual desktop computing into an outsourced subscription service. Download the PDF >

“One of the most interesting use cases of server-hosted desktop virtualization is a services model. If you can host desktops virtually aboard server hardware, why not host it somewhere that already has the infrastructure and data center capacity, such as a telco? Desktops as a service is a very valid model; the technologies are coming together and I expect it will gain in adoption.”

— Michael Rose
Associate Research Analyst
Enterprise Virtualization Software Program
IDC