Desktone Unveils 'Virtual Desktops as a Service' Solution

Desktone, a provider of solutions for virtual desktops offered as outsourced subscription services, has unveiled a new program for enterprises evaluates the benefits of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDIs). The company’s Desktone Desktops as a Service (DaaS) Pilot solution will be available starting October 1.

 

“Many organizations want to adopt VDI for its cost and flexibility benefits but are holding off because of its tremendous complexity and the financial commitment required to build and support the infrastructure,” said Les Yetton, Desktone’s senior vice president of sales, marketing and business development, in a statement. “With our new Desktone DaaS Pilot, they can quickly see how consuming VDI as a hosted service would eliminate these obstacles, and experience exactly how DaaS could work in their environment and help their business.”

 

The Desktone DaaS Pilot lets enterprises utilize the Desktone Virtual-D Platform to integrate all enabling VDI technologies into a single, automated self-service platform. The Virtual-D Platform is designed along two tiers (enterprise and service provider). This helps enterprises maintain ownership and control over their Windows OS images, applications and all relating licensing while outsourcing the physical data center infrastructure powering their virtual desktops to service providers. This reduces desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) and transforms virtual desktop infrastructure costs — both capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operating expenditures (OPEX (News - Alert)).

 

The new program from Desktone also helps enterprises use their own images and applications in a proof-of-concept that includes up to 50 virtual desktops. Desktone uses its DaaS to initiate the pilot, enabling customers to quickly ramp up. The physical infrastructure for this 30-day pilot is hosted by HP Flexible Computing Services, one of Desktone’s service provider partners.

 

Desktone provides virtual desktop hosting platform that enables desktops to be delivered as an outsourced subscription service. The Desktone Virtual-D Platform integrates all enabling technologies into a single, automated, self-service platform.

 

This service simplifies large-scale desktop provisioning and management, transforms virtual desktop infrastructure costs from CAPEX to OPEX. This enables greater protection of physical resources and corporate information, and increases business agility—reducing desktop total cost of ownership.

 

Desktone was founded in 2006.