Increasingly, companies are choosing Desktop as a Service (DaaS) over Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Why? Users point to at least six reasons why DaaS is securing a following. View this SlideShare to learn about how DaaS is improving every user’s entire desktop experience.

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6 Reasons Organizations Choose DaaS

2. Companies are searching for cost-effective, easy-to-use, scalable
desktop delivery models as three changes take industries by storm:
1. The number of mobile employees grows,
2. The number of employees who want or need to work from
anywhere increases, and
3. The number of employees who bring their own devices (BYOD)
skyrockets.

3. It’s no wonder that desktop outsourcing has
snowballed into a $30 billion worldwide market—
where half of the top 100 managed
services providers (MSPs) now offer
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

4. But VDI isn’t satisfying all that a
company needs—or demands.
It’s not just about the desktop.
It’s about the entire experience.

5. The truth is that VDI has had its share of problems.
 VDI is complex to pilot, deploy, and manage.
 Companies must host VDI themselves, which monopolizes IT.
 VDI costs can be prohibitive and unpredictable.
 Efforts to get VDI up and running often fail.
 Business are responsible for replacing faulty hardware, costing both time and money.
 VDI does not provide for a flawless user experience.

6. Enter Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)
The DaaS virtual desktop is:
 Hosted in the cloud: data and applications are accessed through the cloud service
provider; nothing is stored locally
 Run on a server: the server is most likely located in a third-party, off-premise
data center
 Delivered online and on-demand
 Not dependent on locally executable software
 Billed as an hourly, daily, or monthly service
The user can expect an identical desktop and application experience as their home desktop.

7. Increasingly, SMBs and enterprises
are choosing DaaS over VDI.
Why?
Because the benefits are unmistakable.

8. DaaS results in significant reductions in total cost of
ownership (TOC).
 Hardware capital expenditure (CAPEX) is reduced by 56% annually.
 Annual Operating Expenditure (OPEX) decreases.
 Virtual desktops are 200% less expensive, on average, than traditional PCs.
 Companies don’t have to upgrade servers, desktops, and laptop estates: DaaS
enables organizations to reuse existing hardware.
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9. DaaS is flexible and easy to use.
 DaaS enables workplace mobility: users can access their desktop workspace anywhere,
anytime.
 The DaaS workspace is not subjected to hardware loss or failure.
 Employees can run DaaS on any device they choose—tablets, mobile devices, laptops,
iPads, and thin clients.
 Users easily can access Windows and Linux-based operating systems.
 DaaS increases employee efficiency over VDI systems, which have lower performance
thresholds.
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10. DaaS enables better security and compliance.
 Virtual desktops cannot be hacked, lost, or stolen—unlike PCs.
 With DaaS, no sensitive information is stored on any hard drive, or if there is no hard
drive at all, there is nothing to steal.
 Viruses rarely infiltrate DaaS systems.
 DaaS employs centralized updates, continuous data backup, and synchronization that
automates compliance and security.
 DaaS providers offer a level of expertise that small IT departments don’t have or don’t
have the budget to acquire.
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11. DaaS frees up IT so that they can be strategic & innovative.
 The DaaS provider manages resource provisioning, load balancing, and
network issues.
 DaaS standardizes the IT environment so that a company’s IT strategy can
better support fast growth, fast transitions, and unpredictable cycles.
 IT can work on new, innovative Web and mobile application and management
projects that the company will benefit from in the long run.
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12. DaaS is an essential element of disaster recovery (DR).
 Organizations who use DaaS get their desktops up and running quickly after any
disaster.
 DaaS offers reliable failover, backup, and disaster recovery. Service providers have
multiple facilities to handle hardware failure and downtime due to regional natural
disasters, unlike an on-premise data center.
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13. DaaS eases the pains of business growth & upgrades.
 Upgrades are streamlined: there is no need to perform any upgrade tasks at an
employee level—in-house or remote.
 DaaS flexes and scales as the organization and its employees grow. No new
infrastructure is needed.
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14. The reasons are clear:
DaaS has taken the lead as the virtual desktop solution of choice—
because it’s not just about the desktop.
It’s about the user’s
entire experience.

15. For more information on
the DaaS solution from
see
http://www.navisite.com/cloud-services/desktop-service-daas