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 like
the cloud is well on its way to displace the virtualization craze that
started last summer and which has carried us through the past 12 months. As a
result, I thought it would be an appropriate time to discuss how we think
DaaS fits into the cloud phenomena.
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 class... (more)
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 virtualization will enable the adoption of cloud computing in
the enterprise. Every virtualization industry event either becomes a
virtualization + cloud computing show or acts as the venue for major ven... (more)
I wanted to let you know that we've submitted a session in response to
Alessandro's call for papers for his upcoming Virtualization Congress. I
thought it would be useful to start sharing our view on how state separation
relates to VDI and DaaS. As you probably know, our industry has convinced
itself that state separation is not only a pre-requisite but an absolute
requirement for doing VDI or DaaS. We couldn't disagree more and will be
further explaining our position in upcoming blog posts, articles, etc. In
the meantime, please take a look at the session description and if ... (more)
This post has been a long time coming. It’s basically one of the core
philosophies we live by at Desktone and it happens to run contrary to
everything else you’ve read about virtual desktops and state separation. At
the core of the argument is the premise that deploying virtual desktops and
achieving state separation in client operating environments are two
fundamentally different objectives. I’m not going to claim that they
aren’t related and that ultimately they will cross paths. However, I do
believe that viewing them as one in the same has led enterprises down the
wrong pat... (more)
VMworld Europe 2009, currently underway in Cannes (no, I'm not there), has
been an opportunity for VMware to reiterate the key areas of a strategy it
unveiled at VMworld 2008 this past fall. So they're talking about vCloud
(their service provider strategy) and they're talking about vClient (their
enterprise desktop strategy based on View). But what's different from the
last event is that they're now also talking about cloud-hosted desktops,
which in essence tie the vCloud and vClient initiatives together.
... (more)