The Desktone Cloud brings cloud-scale to VDI. It is a multi-tenant, secure, geographically distributed desktop cloud that allows organizations to quickly leverage the benefits of virtual desktops. The Desktone Cloud is the perfect marriage of an As-A-Service cloud model with VDI.
The Desktone Cloud service provides centralized desktop management, provisioning, and access all through simple web-based interfaces. Easily upload or create your own “gold” patterns, then build out desktops from those images, all in a simple straightforward manner without worrying about the underlying infrastructure.
Ease of Deployment
The Desktone Cloud offers unprecedented ease of deployment and management through a single web-based, easy to use interface. The platform has been designed to work across multiple data centers, and support tens of thousands of users, allowing the Desktone Cloud to flexibly scale with your organization’s virtual desktop needs.
Desktop Provisioning
Create and manage pools of virtual desktops, which can be static or dynamic in size, in just minutes with a few simple clicks. IT administrators can define pools, create custom policies for usage and allocate pools to user groups. All of the pool creation and provisioning is done without requiring any knowledge or experience in dealing with the underlying infrastructure.The picture below shows how easy pool creation is; simply pick a desktop model, type, gold pattern and desktop group, then review and provision.
Desktop Management
Included in the Desktone Cloud service is a simple easy to use web-based management interface, the Enterprise Center, which enables image management. The Enterprise Center allows full pattern lifecycle management, from pattern creation to active management to retirement. The Enterprise Center allows customers to upload gold patterns with a single click.
Leverage Existing Best Practices
Desktops in the Desktone Cloud look and act as part of your corporate IT environment, though they are running at a secure remote data center. This is because the desktops are connected to your corporate IT environment through a private network connection, most often a site-to-site VPN. Access to the desktops is based upon your existing corporate Active Directory, and the application running inside the virtual desktop, which is at your discretion to determine.
Easy Access
To minimize the cost and labor associated with virtual desktop infrastructures, the Desktone Cloud includes a self-service, policy-based portal that enterprise users can access from any browser. With the portal, users can create, activate and manage their virtual desktops without relying on a system or desktop administrator.
Any Device Including Mobile
The Desktone Cloud allows users to leverage nearly any device to access the cloud. This includes a DaaS Mobile Client for access from an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. End users can also leverage thin clients, with a smaller carbon footprint and near stateless characteristics, to access their desktops. Alternatively, end users can extend the life of their existing PCs for cloud access.
Desktop Flexibility
With the Desktone Cloud you have the flexibility to give your organization virtual desktops that meet their needs. This can mean different desktops for different use cases or different desktops by line of business.
Options include:
Performance:
Customize your desktop to meet end user needs in terms of memory, processing power and disk space. The Desktone Cloud comes with standard package offering, however more memory and additional CPUs or disk space can be added easily.
Desktop OS:
Supported desktop operating systems include all flavors of Windows including 32- and 64-bit, Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP and Linux.
Features:
Users can add the features they want to their desktops, only paying for what they need. Some available features include static or dynamic desktops, profile management, improved multimedia performance, and access client devices.
Protocol:
The Desktone Cloud is protocol agnostic and has multiple protocol options to meet the end-user experience needs.
Security & Privacy
The Desktone Cloud leverages Rackspace Hosting. From the ground up, Rackspace Hosting is built to deliver on-demand software, with fully-managed hosting solutions and instant emergency response. Rackspace services include world class monitoring, highly secure facilities and a support team of certified experts.
