Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the recently acquired Desktone asset. I have a 451 report for clients up.
Here’s the 451 Take:
VMware is launching a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering at an appropriate time, both beating Amazon to the 1.0 punch and playing into key trends that seem to be giving virtual desktops a new breath of life. There’s been a steady increase in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, tightly coupled with the fragmentation of the PC market brought on by mobility: tablets, Apple and Android – not to mention the continued spread of the Web as a major ‘platform.’ Meanwhile, the profusion of Windows-based applications and other ‘legacy’ corporate IT services are not always ready to convert to the new platforms, opening up the need for virtual desktops. Finally, cloud infrastructure technologies and business models are making the managing of the back end for virtual desktop systems more cost-efficient. The confluence of these trends points toward companies tilting at the virtual desktop windmills again, but this time with a ‘SaaSy’ lance.
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VMware launches “desktop as a service” offering with recently acquired Desktone (451 Report)