Cisco Offers Up Cloud Desktop Virtualisation Solution

Grazed from TechWeekEurope. Author: Jeffrey Burt.

Cisco Systems has teamed up with VMware and Citrix Systems as it launches a cloud-based desktop-as-a-service solution, aimed at both service providers and enterprises. The new service will complement Cisco’s existing on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure offering.

DaaS Service

The new Cisco Desktop as a Service (DaaS) offering will be based on the networking giant’s Unified Computing System (UCS) converged data centre solution and the company’s enhanced desktop virtualisation solution. The new cloud offering will give service providers a new service to offer their customers, while at the same time, enterprises will be able use the solution to launch a DaaS solution in their private clouds….

“Many organisations are looking for ways to achieve the benefits of desktop virtualisation without the need to install and maintain equipment or make capital investments,” Satinder Sethi, vice president of engineering at Cisco, said in a statement, adding that for cloud service providers, the solution will help them “achieve rapid time-to-market while economically scaling their business.”

Cisco’s offering, announced 17 December, comes a month after public cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its own cloud-based desktop virtualisation solutions. AWS officials said Amazon Workspaces is in preview, but that the service will be available for less than half the cost of a traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) offering, with prices between $35 (£21) and $75 (£46) per workspace used each month…

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