Desktone Announces Industry’s First Solution for Desktops as a Service By VSM News Staff published: Monday, April 21 2008
Desktone Virtual-D
PlatformTM Removes Barriers to Adoption of Virtual Desktops, Enables
Service Providers to Offer Corporate Desktops as Subscription Service.
April 21, 2008 - Chelmsford, MA - Desktone, Inc., provider of the first solution that
enables desktops as a service (DaaS), today announced the Desktone Virtual-D
Platform, which is designed specifically to enable service providers to offer
hosted, subscription-based virtual desktops.
Desktone's solution helps
enterprises quickly realize the full benefits of centralized virtual desktops
without having to build and deploy the infrastructure internally. It dramatically reduces desktop TCO,
transforming computing costs from fixed CAPEX to variable OPEX. Service
providers benefit from optimizing use of their data center assets while
delivering a new highly scalable, value-added service to customers.
"There's a tremendous amount of
industry interest in virtual desktop computing.
It can reduce desktop costs, improve manageability and enhance security.
However, because it is very difficult for enterprises to implement, wide-spread
adoption has been slow," said Harry Ruda,
CEO, Desktone. "Desktone eliminates the
complexity and speeds the on-ramp to virtual desktop computing by transforming
desktops into a cost-effective, highly scalable subscription service. We're extremely excited about the
opportunities this affords enterprises and service providers."
"We wanted
to transition to virtual desktops because of the potential cost savings,
security and flexibility benefits," said Carl Freeman, Director - GTI, Head of
US Site Support, Merrill Lynch. "Desktone's solution is managed in
a single framework, hosted through service providers, and built upon an open
architecture that enables us to swap in best-in-class virtualization
technologies as they become available."
"Using Wyse
thin clients with Desktone's Virtual-D Platform, customers can achieve a
meaningful reduction in capital and operating expenses while realizing the
promise of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) computing," said Ricardo
Antuna, Vice President of Business Development, Wyse Technology. "Desktone's DaaS approach, when coupled with
our thin clients, offers enterprises a turnkey VDI solution where all desktops
can be managed and run centrally for greater overall efficiency."
"Large service providers --
already operating in highly competitive markets -- are seeing new Web-based
services spring up all around them while traditional communications services
diminish in revenue potential. Delivering the end-user PC experience as an
Internet service -- with rapid provisioning of myriad existing applications,
email and data storage assets -- offers a lifeline to these providers,"
said Dana Gardner, principal analyst, Interarbor Solutions. "By targeting
the largest-scale performance and integration needs of service providers -- and
their enterprise-class customers -- Desktone is turning desktop as a service
from a vision into both a provider business opportunity and a huge cost-saver
for user organizations."
Desktone Virtual-D Platform
The
Virtual-D Platform simplifies large-scale virtual desktop provisioning and
management, enables greater protection of corporate desktop assets, and delivers
much more consistent and reliable desktop service levels-all while reducing
desktop total cost of ownership by $300-$800/desktop/year. It is the only solution that integrates all
desktop virtualization layers through a single, automated self-service
platform, and enables desktops to be delivered as a subscription service.
Desktone's
DaaS model consists of two distinct tiers:
enterprise and service provider.
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.
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 Access Fabric - a set of distributed services that
provides the association between authorized users and their virtual desktops.
- Enterprise Tier:
- Desktone Virtual-D
Enterprise
Center:
Web-based management interface for the enterprise desktop
administrator, which enables IT staff to leverage the same administration tasks
they use in a physical desktop environment.
Designed to support large user populations, it provides virtual resource
management, virtual desktop administration and template lifecycle
management.
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- 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, without relying on a
system or desktop administrator.
- Service Provider Tier:
- 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 by Desktone partners or service providers, as self-contained,
independent modular units of desktop service delivery, Virtual-D Elements make
it easy for service providers to scale DaaS environments.
A framework that ties individual Virtual-D Elements into a
virtual desktop utility grid. The Service Manager creates a loosely
coupled "federation" of Elements, manages pools across Elements, and
collects data on Element status.
The Access Fabric is a unique offering from Desktone that
links the two separate worlds of the enterprise and the service provider. It’s an intelligent system that automatically
delivers best-fit desktops according to user entitlements, policies, access
location and available resources.
To learn
more, view the webinar: Introduction to
Desktone Virtual-D Platform.
Availability
The
Virtual-D Platform is available as part of a hosted service through authorized
Desktone partners. Enterprises can click
here for more information.
Service Providers who are interested in delivering Desktone-enabled DaaS
can click here.
About Desktone
Desktone,
Inc. provides the only virtual desktop infrastructure platform that enables
desktops to be delivered as a hosted subscription service. The Desktone Virtual-D Platform integrates
all desktop virtualization layers in a single, automated, self-service
platform. By offering desktops as a
service, Desktone simplifies large-scale desktop provisioning and management,
provides greater protection of corporate assets, and delivers much more
consistent and reliable desktop service levels-all of which reduces desktop total
cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.desktone.com.
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