
Their business centers on enabling service providers to offer Desktops-as-a-Service, including the platform technology itself, blueprint reference architectures and cleverly, go-to-market and lead-gen materials for service providers as well. This is very hard to achieve and still fit within the existing portals and frameworks of service providers.ĭesktone's platform architecture is the result of several years' worth of engineering effort specifically toward the challenges of delivering full Windows desktops, session-based desktops and applications on-demand, cost effectively. adequate personal storage, storage IOPS performance optimized for desktop application uses, fast boot, etc.) but is also fully automated through the entire customer on-boarding and desktop instance life-cycle, from creation to archiving or deletion – including scaling up performance, fail-over, full multi-tenancy etc.


Taking out the substantial cost of a Windows desktop license for a moment (a significant barrier to DaaS adoption), keeping costs down and the user experience high requires an infrastructure that is both optimized for Windows desktop performance (e.g. When customers shift to a hosted service for desktops, the user experience becomes paramount and requires optimizing different parts of the technology stack versus, say, a web server.

DaaS economics are a challenge for service providers because their customers tend to compare the cost of DaaS with what it currently costs them to deploy and maintain physical PCs through their lifecycles.
