Jeff Fisher

Desktone recently announced its expansion into Europe with its first DaaS provider in the region - SCC (part of the SCH Group). You can find the release here . ... (more)

Upcoming DaaS Presentations

Just a quick heads up that I will be presenting next week in New York City at SYS-CON's Cloud/Virtualization Conference & Expo and online at the Cloud Slam '09 virtual conference the week of April 20th. ... (more)

Desktops as a Service (DaaS) and Cloud Computing – An Overview

Jeff Fisher's "Desktops as a Service" Blog Generally speaking, DaaS is about transforming desktops into a cloud service. However, there are already a number of different approaches to DaaS and they vary considerably. To start, I thought it would be helpful to classify the different versions of DaaS as they exist today. Cloud computing has reached an absolute frenzy in the IT media. It seems... (more)

Cloud Hosted Desktops

It's August 2007. VMware goes public and virtualization, in all its forms, reigns as the leading IT infrastructure megatrend. Fast forward to the summer of 2008 and virtualization is already giving way to the new king of IT media - cloud computing. All of a sudden, the conversations about how virtualization will transform existing enterprise infrastructure shift to talk about how virtual... (more)

Benefit Now with Cloud-Hosted Desktops

The excitement around virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is being tempered by the concern that VDI can't be cost-justified if it doesn't completely transform traditional desktop management - and by the belief that the only way to achieve this is with stateless desktops. The bad news is that truly stateless desktops won't be commonly available for at least another five years. But there ... (more)