DaaS - Desktop As A Service

As cloud providers and enterprises broaden their service portfolios, many providers are adopting DaaS. These services offer the benefits of VDI, without enterprise customers needing to build and operate their own VDI infrastructures. With DaaS on demand, you can manage your virtual desktops (user profiles, operating system and applications) with a self-service portal. And, the service provider manages the rest as a monthly subscription service, including data center hardware and facilities, VDI software and security. Users can connect to full-featured virtual desktops from anywhere, at any time, using PCoIP or RDP devices — and those virtual desktop resources never leave the secure cloud.

VMTurbo offers a fully multi-tenant and cloud platform-aware solution (VMware vCloud Director, Citrix CloudStack). With it, cloud providers deliver DaaS services—meeting service levels while efficiently using compute, storage and cloud resources and, thereby, increasing operating margins. Furthermore, providers may differentiate their DaaS offerings by exposing targeted views to their tenants, allowing subscribers to visualize and understand the health of their desktop workloads. This capability can also benefit the provider because their customers can leverage this as part of their internal incident management process associated with desktop performance problems. This can dramatically reduce the number of incident tickets logged by subscribers as they can quickly eliminate the DaaS infrastructure as a cause of performance issues before logging incidents with the DaaS provider’s service desk.

Amazon.com Inc. brought a sweet surprise package for many people with the introduction of 'WorkSpaces', a Remote Desktop Session Host-based on Desktop as a Service (DaaS) tool or we rather call it 'contraption'  residing in the Amazon cloud. Their unique business model to pay for the desktop on monthly basis makes it even sweeter. This could have not been possible without a enormous set up they have in 'Cloud'. While, other DaaS stakeholder offering such service would need a larger customer base to compete. But the big brother, just need to add one more icon on their huge canvas catering to larger audience they have already.