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Enabling Desktops as an Outsourced Subscription Service
The Desktone Virtual-D Platform is the only solution that enables 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 customizable end-user experiences – 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 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 leverage the same administration tasks they use 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 user 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 as well as manage those virtual desktops or even create new ones, all without relying on a system or desktop administrator. In addition, the Virtual-D Portal assists users in troubleshooting issues that may arise and also allows them to submit requests for additional virtual desktop resources.
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 DaaS environments, this portion of the platform is comprised of Desktone Virtual-D Elements that are managed by the Desktone Service Grid:Desktone Virtual-D Element: The building block of a virtual desktop utility grid, Virtual-D Elements are racks that include all the hardware, virtualization resources and software required to support virtual desktops. Built as self-contained, independent modular units of desktop service delivery, Virtual-D Elements make it easy for service providers to scale their DaaS environments. Service providers can build Virtual-D Elements themselves using Desktone's Virtual-D Element blueprint, or can get them pre-fabricated from authorized Desktone partners.
Desktone Service Grid: A framework that ties individual Virtual-D Elements into a virtual desktop utility grid. The Service Grid creates a loosely coupled "federation" of Elements, manages pools across Elements, and collects data on Element status.
Desktone Access Fabric
The Access Fabric is a unique offering from Desktone that links the two separate worlds 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.