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Enabling Desktops as an Outsourced Subscription Service
The Desktone Virtual-D Platform is the first solution that enables virtual hosted desktops to be delivered as an outsourced, subscription service. It lets enterprises quickly realize the full potential and benefits associated with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments – dramatically reduced deployment complexity; improved management, security and compliance; and superior end-user productivity – without the capital expense and complicated systems integration of building and deploying a customized internal solution.
Platform Architecture
Benefits for Enterprises:
Realize all the benefits of VDI while dramatically reducing the costs
Benefits for Service Providers:
Optimize your existing assets to deliver a new value-added service
Desktone's DaaS model consists of two distinct tiers: enterprise and service provider. Key to enabling DaaS is the fact that the Virtual-D Platform integrates all VDI functionality while separating the enterprise and service provider tiers. This allows enterprises to manage a virtual desktop environment supported by physical resources owned and maintained by a third-party, and that reside either at the enterprise or at a service provider. Enterprises realize the full benefits of the virtual desktop infrastructure, but don't incur the capital and labor expenses, learning curve, or risks associated with owning the physical resources. 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.
The Virtual-D Platform is a set of components and services that align with the enterprise and service provider tiers, enabling the delivery of highly scalable DaaS environments. The two tiers are tied together with Desktone's unique Access Fabric – a set of distributed services that provides the association between authorized users and their virtual desktops.
Enterprise Tier:
The Virtual-D platform architecture enables enterprise IT staff to utilize the same administration tasks they employ in a physical desktop environment. Within this tier the system provides operational automation, virtual machine lifecycle management, desktop monitoring and reporting, and supports access to virtual desktops from thin, rich or repurposed clients.
Desktone Virtual-D Enterprise Center: Web-based management interface for the enterprise desktop administrator. Designed to support large end-user and virtual desktop populations, it provides virtual resource management, virtual desktop administration and template lifecycle management. The Virtual-D Enterprise Center allows enterprises to continue using the infrastructure, 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.
Desktone Virtual-D Portal: A self-service, policy-based portal that enterprise users can access from any browser. With the Virtual-D Portal, users can access their existing virtual desktops from almost any PC as well as manage those virtual desktops or even create new ones, all without relying on a system or desktop administrator.
Service Provider Tier:
The platform includes the software, tools and best practices needed for service providers to build and easily manage a virtual desktop utility grid for delivering DaaS, while integrating with their existing network and distribution infrastructures. Designed specifically to enable highly scalable, multi-tenant and multi-data center DaaS environments, this portion of the platform is comprised of Desktone Service Grid, Virtual-D Elements and Access Fabric, which are all managed using the Virtual-D Service Center:Virtual-D Service Center: A web-based management interface for the service provider operator. This peer to the Virtual-D Enterprise Center is designed to enable service providers to support multiple customers on a multi-site, shared virtual desktop hosting infrastructure while delivering on defined service level agreements.
Desktone Service Grid: A framework that ties individual Virtual-D Elements into a virtual desktop utility grid. The Service Grid provides federated management and orchestration of data centers, Elements and the Access Fabric. Designed to be inherently multi-tenant, it allows service providers to control the level of resource sharing between customers while always maintaining secure network segregation and isolation between enterprises. The Service Grid seamlessly supports Elements that are geographically distributed across multiple service provider and/or enterprise Data Centers.
Desktone Virtual-D Elements: The building blocks of a virtual desktop utility grid, Virtual-D Elements are independent modular units of service delivery capacity. Elements are logical groupings of hardware, virtualization resources, storage, and software assigned to support the needs of tenant enterprises. Virtual-D Elements make it easy for service providers to scale their DaaS environments, as well as offer high availability. Desktone offers a blueprint to service providers for how to economically build Elements that are either hosted in their own data centers or are located on their customers' premises and managed remotely by the service provider.
Desktone Access Fabric
The Access Fabric is a unique offering from Desktone that links the two separate environments of the enterprise and the service provider. It is a set of distributed services that provides the association between authorized users and their virtual desktop infrastructure. Through its DNS-like architecture, the Access Fabric brings carrier-class scalability to the VDI model. It's an intelligent system that automatically delivers best-fit desktops according to user entitlements, policies, access location and available resources.To learn more about the Desktone Virtual-D Platform, view our interactive Guided Tour, sign up for a hands-on live demo, or send us a request for more information.