Why Your Desktop Should Be Born In The Cloud
July 30, 2014
Grazed from BSMInfo. Author: Terry Cronin.
Technology historians tell us that the idea of cloud computing dates back to at least the mid-’90s. That may be true, but the term’s more likely been in vogue since Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud hit the market 10 years later. In the years since, there’s been a steady and ever-growing migration to this model.
Still, in our business, a decade is eternity. That’s why what we should really be talking about is the next logical next step: solutions that don’t have to migrate to the cloud because they were actually born there. That’s the best way to look at virtual desktop service (VDS), or Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)…
At its core, this involves the outsourcing of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) to a third-party service provider. And putting the multiple acronyms aside for a moment, it’s a discipline that offers significant opportunities to managed services providers…
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