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6 Reasons Organizations Choose DaaS

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.

where half of the top 100 managed

services providers (MSPs) now offer

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

It’s no wonder that desktop outsourcing has

snowballed into a $30 billion worldwide market—

It’s not just about the desktop.

It’s about the entire experience.

But VDI isn’t satisfying all that a

company needs—or demands.

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.

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.

Enter Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS)

Why?

Because the benefits are unmistakable.

Increasingly, SMBs and enterprises

are choosing DaaS over VDI.

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.

1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

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.

5

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.

6

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.

For more information on

the DaaS solution from

see

http://www.navisite.com/cloud-services/desktop-service-daas