IndependenceIT, a leading software provider of simplified IT management
solutions for application and DaaS delivery, today announced
availability of a new report by Gigaom Research on cloud workspaces,
available for free download. The report, titled The
Business Rationale for Cloud Workspaces, reveals the desktop
virtualization landscape, including desktop virtualization delivery
models that include client-hosted virtual desktops, VDI, session-hosted
desktops, and DaaS.
The report gives IT administrators an in-depth assessment of virtual
desktop solutions and is based on interviews with platform vendors,
service providers and enterprise customers conducted from June to
October 2014. Additional information was gathered from interviews and
survey responses gathered from a group of approximately 200 end-user
computing decision-makers conducted annually from Q4 2010 to the present.
The “Business Rationale for Cloud Workspaces” cites key factors driving
the adoption of desktop virtualization. These include:
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Financial benefits: In common with many other cloud services,
DaaS exchanges periodic capital equipment investment for frequent
regular operating expenses, while simplifying chargeback of services
to individual business units.
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BYOD programs: Programs supporting and/or encouraging employees
looking to use their own computers for work have proven to be
exceedingly popular with employees and employers alike.
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Data security: Even with an increased focus on cloud data
security issues following several high - profile security breaches,
VDI and DaaS offer significant advantages over distributed desktops.
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Business agility: In conjunction with other cloud services is
an opportunity to take advantage of rich APIs that provide automated
service provisioning as part of core business processes such as new
employee account setup.
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Desktop management: Virtual desktops are based on shared
virtual - disk images that enable patches and updates to be employed
to a single base image and propagated across any number of virtual
desktops in minutes.
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Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC): DaaS has
significant advantages in DR and BC planning and implementation. Not
only are DaaS services significantly less expensive than similar plans
based on allocation of physical equipment, but with careful planning,
standing up thousands of desktops in very short order is possible –
far faster than would be possible with physical PCs.
In a survey conducted for this report, financial benefits were cited as
the number one justification for considering DaaS. In a majority of
cases, capital cost avoidance is the reason for selecting DaaS over VDI
or a desktop hardware refresh from Windows XP end-of-life migration
planning. When customers were confronted with the cost and complexity of
migrating to Windows 7, they noted that “the move to DaaS was the
lowest-cost, least-disruptive way forward1.”
“App and DaaS delivery enabled by IndependenceIT’s Cloud Workspace
Suite® (CWS) provides important advantages for simplified IT
management,” said Seth Bostock, CEO, IndependenceIT. “CWS automates and
provides workflow for all solution components, making it the most
simple solution to deploy and manage."
Accessing the Free Report
Parties interested in accessing the free report can download it at: http://www.independenceit.com/documents/Gigaom-Research-Business-Rationale-for-Cloud-Workspaces-.pdf