In addition to a no-charge DaaS proof-of-concept , there are a couple of other ways to get a real-world sense of how your organization can benefit from DaaS as well as Cloud computing in general:
For those who are ready to explore Desktop-as-a-Service, it’s worthwhile to find a DaaS-competent Cloud services provider who is willing to work with you to conduct a no-cost DaaS Proof-Of-Concept at your premises using you applications, data, and devices — and involving your employees.
There really is no other way to learn what your business can get from DaaS. A free DaaS Proof-of-Concept will help you understand very concretely how DaaS will work for your employees and what they’ll get from it. Using an iPad as part of your DaaS Proof-Of-Concept can be a wow! experience.
I want to focus this time on a Cloud-based solution called Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS).
DaaS is one of those technologies that both end-users and IT people like — because it doesn’t force end-users to change their work habits and it relieves IT of all kinds of desktop management hassles by putting all employee desktop images in the Cloud.
By ‘desktop images’, I mean all of an end-user’s apps and data as well as the personalized look and feel of their desktop environment. So even though this ‘desktop image’ resides in the Cloud, each end-user’s customizable desktop environment looks and performs as usual.
These are some of the most common questions I get asked about Desktop-as-a-Service — and here are my answers.
Q. What end-user devices can we use to access our virtual desktops?
A. Quest’s DaaS lets you use just about all of them: Any Wintel or Mac computer or laptop, iPhones, iPads, Android phones, and Android tablets. It even works on a Kindle Fire.
I saw a sign recently with these six words: Change, of any sort, requires courage.
Change can be so difficult that sometimes we’d prefer to convince ourselves that it’s unnecessary. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
But how do you know it ain’t broke? Complex systems and (infra)structures often fool us with their own forms of what amounts to landscape amnesia: By inches, conditions deteriorate, and this happens so slowly and in such small increments that we do not notice.
It’s great that, with the right Cloud service provider , Desktop-as-a-Service can fit nicely into just about any IT environment. But what does it do for the business?
DaaS does 3 Big Things, each with bottom-line impact:
