Desktone Announces Industry's First Solution that Delivers Virtual Desktops as an Outsourced Service
Desktone Virtual-D Platform(TM) Removes Barriers to Adoption of
Virtual Desktops, Enables Service Providers to Offer Corporate
Desktops as Subscription Service
CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
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:
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-- 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.
-- 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.
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-- Service Provider Tier:
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-- 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.
-- Desktone Service Grid:
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.
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-- 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'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.
Desktone
Candyce Plante, 978-710-0193
candyce.plante@desktone.com
or
Bedsole & Company
Janice Bedsole, 781-789-6108
janice@bedsoleandcompany.com
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