Leading industry analysts are tracking Desktone’s progress and impact on the virtual desktop infrastructure market. Read the below and click on the links to see what some of them are saying about Desktone and desktops as a service.

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• Dana Gardner, Interarbor Solutions

  Desktone, the desktops as a service (DaaS) provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard (HP), which has signed on as the first member of Desktone’s partner program for desktop virtualization technology.

  While many companies can benefit from virtualizing their desktops, building the infrastructure can be expensive, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. Acquiring the technology as a service, and paying for it as an operating expense can put the technology within the reach of many of those businesses.

  By targeting the largest-scale performance and integration needs of service providers – and their enterprise-class customers – Desktone is turning desktop as a service from a vision into both a provider business opportunity and a huge cost-saver for user organizations.

  Read Dana’s Blog:
  • HP Partners with Desktone to Advance Virtual Desktops as a Service
  • ‘Desktop as a service’ coming soon to a PC near you

• Alessandro Perelli, virtualization.info

  Desktone is a US startup which left the stealth mode 10 days ago to unveil an innovative hosted VDI architecture. While waiting to unveil the first major implementation (probably from Verizon) the small company announces its support for the upcoming Microsoft virtualization products: Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008.”

  Read Alessandro's Blog:
  • Desktone Announces Support for Microsoft SCVMM 08
  • Desktone leaves the stealth mode and launches a VDI solution for service providers

• Michael Rose, IDC

  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? This idea of desktops as a service is gaining a lot of interest in the market. IDC believes it is very valid model; the technologies are coming together and I expect it will gain in adoption."

  Learn more, IDC published reports: Virtual Client Computing Private Vendor Overview, Desktop Hosting Provider Gets Financially Juiced

• Judith Hurwitz, Hurwitz & Associates

  Desktone has an interesting opportunity. It is stretching what we have traditionally thought about for desktop virtualization. I think that desktop as a service is the right conversation for the industry to be having just about now.

  Read Judith’s Blog: The Desktop as a Service: Can Desktone be a Focal Point?

• Robin Bloor, Hurwitz & Associates

  [Desktone's] is the kind of proposition you’d have expected to emerge in time, but not this early in the nascent client virtualization market. I've covered the various species of client virtualization in Does Client Virtualization Make Sense? and this qualifies as a new one. Many of the business advantages are the same (cuts desktop TCO and support effort in a big way, etc.), but there are some advantages that are true differentiators.

  Read Robin's blog: Desktone: Client Virtualization in the Cloud

• Dan Kusnetzky, The Kusnetzky Group

  Desktone clearly understands what it takes to bring a new product to market. They've developed a sophisticated platform and have already signed up several hosting companies to pilot the software and related service offerings. If your organization could offer access to desktop solutions without having to purchase, install, update or administer desktop systems, would you take Desktone and its partners up on their offer?

  Read Dan’s blog: Desktone - Desktop in the Cloud

• Natalie Lambert, Forrester

  Lambert anticipates that...service providers like AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will be best suited to offer desktop virtualization as a service. – Source: InformationWeek, 4/8/08

  Learn more, Forrester published report: Demystifying Client Virtualization