Brief briefing on Daas cloud Platform

At the Synergy User Group meeting in San Francisco, Dell discussed its virtual desktop capabilities in partnership with VMware and Citrix Systems. Dell's system collaboration with VMware and Citrix is not surprising, but it is strange that Dell will also collaborate with a small company, Desktone, shortly after the creation time.

Desktone provides virtualized desktops through a cloud-based desktop, a service (DaaS) platform that works in conjunction with Jie and VMware virtual machines. Desktone chief executive Peter McKay said in an interview that this has nothing to do with virtualization management programs.

Dell announced in Monday that some users had obtained Dell's Desktone service--dell simplified DaaS one months ago, and that the service was now open to all users.

Unlike Jie XenDesktop or VMware View, Desktone provides virtual desktops through servers in external data centers. Desktone provides the IT department with a management platform based on the portal site. With this management platform, the IT department can manage the desktops created by company employees.

Dell will also use the Desktone multi-tenant platform--desktone Cloud, which uses the platform to prepare end user desktops for customers through its own data center. By working with Desktone, and deploying the Desktone Cloud, Dell has taken the first step in abandoning the physical end-user machine by providing virtual end-user desktop or desktop services directly from its data center to run on different devices.

Desktone used to be just a VAR virtualization provider working with a large service provider such as Jie and VMware or a telecoms company. Desktone acquired 25 data centers a year ago and began to provide daas through them. In the second half of 2010, Desktone launched the Desktone cloud. Cooperation with Dell let Desktone find a big brother. Currently, Dell has deployed its innovative solutions and says these solutions are working well.

McKay says the Desktone Cloud is able to implement all the features that are locally available in virtualized Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). These features on the cloud address the problems experienced by clients who perform end-user virtualization. Desktone cloud services can be scaled to meet the large number of user requirements that occur at the start of the workday. They also know which installed servers are best suited to run virtual desktops, and then keep those servers running. They are also able to manage all end user presentation protocols. Many users like to ask for these protocols.

VDI consolidates the company's physical desktop as a virtual machine onto a central server. Virtual machines are designed to provide end users with their familiar desktops. All wait times are the same depending on the network connection to the end user. Users can deploy thin clients, Apple Macs, tablets, or old PCs without the need for powerful PC hardware. When VDI is transferred as a Daas, the two are the same thing, but the centralized server is outside the customer and can be accessed over the Internet.

McKay said Desktone could do the same thing with the local system: It could create a Windows 7 or Windows XP "Huang image" for each authenticated user group and quickly prepare multiple virtual machines. Different groups will be given the corresponding application. Desktone can store personal devices and information for each user to personalize the desktop.

Desktone can also create desktops for Linux, Windows Server, and Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Terminal Services users. IT administrators can activate these virtual desktops through a Desktone management console.

McKay said: "We know that VDI is too complex, many users do not want to create them in-house, customers are willing to outsource, so we will create Desktone as a multi-tenant system on the cloud." "On the other hand, VMware View and Citrix XenApp are designed for local installation.

McKay says Desktone has access to the client's local active Directory, allowing it to identify users and assign different types of virtual machines and permissions. Part of the user twice times the memory, some users can get more performance of the CPU.

It can work with customers ' preferred protocols and the HDX of Citrix Systems and Flexcast, VMware's PCoIP, Microsoft's RDS and other large providers to transfer desktops.

The customer IT department can design and create and then upload their preferred "Huang" to Desktone Cloud. In most cases, McKay says, it restricts users to two or three basic desktop types to provide personalized desktops.

In addition, Desktone can also provide netelligent through partners such as Rackspace, Quest, NaviSite, Marubeni and Daas.