12/11/20 - desktop,vdi
In today’s climate of telecommuting, along with increasing Security concerns, DaaS is quickly becoming a much more sought after option – as opposed to physical devices for end users. While this does still require an end user to have a physical device to log in to the DaaS with, costs and maintenance can be mitigated on these devices, as their local resources don’t affect the performance of the DaaS environment – just the Internet bandwidth they have access to.
The possibilities of a required device to connect to the DaaS are pretty open – imagine being able to ship out a consumer-level laptop to an end-user that is completely locked down, essentially giving the user a glorified Kiosk with access to Ethernet, Wireless, and a shortcut to their DaaS, and nothing else.
What is DaaS?
DaaS is simply VDI in someone else’s datacenter – AWS, Azure, etc. While VDI is also a good option, with everyone moving to migrate their datacenters off-premises, DaaS would be the viable option.
Some DaaS’s even automatically manage the maintenance and updates of these systems, while still giving your IT department the ability to configure and control the system itself.
Why DaaS?
With VDI, similar to how virtualization simplified the deployment and management of servers as VMs, the same can be applied to Desktops with even more options, such as Reverting the VD’s state every night, and also ensuring that there are no transient Layer-1 issues between the VD and the servers.
In the same vein, with how IaaS and moving Server VMs to the cloud, DaaS is again the desktop aspect of this, and offers the same ability to spin-up and shutdown VDs as necessary. And, again similar to IaaS, you require fewer technicians who can manage the aspects of an on-premise VDI.
Since there is no on-premise datacenter, your cost is variable to your need, as opposed to being an investment for physical infrastructure to back it up.
DaaS can also offer options besides just an available desktop, such as vGPU options for graphic designers.
The Application layer, of course, would still need to be managed.
But, with less requirements and troubleshooting from user errors on their own systems, transient connectivity issues, malware infection, and the like, this will free up your IT department to spend more time on assisting current users, and working towards the future of your IT department. Less technical debt leads to brighter futures.
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