Evaluation report: Support BYOD Cloud Desktop

Tom Henderson, director of the Extremelabs Laboratory at Tom Henderson, Indiana, published an evaluation article on the Web World website, introducing the lab to five Daas (desktop Services, Desktop-as-a-service) The evaluation of the cloud desktop services provided by the service provider to the end-user device. The following is the full text of the article.

Daas is an interesting way for it executives to provide cloud-based Windows desktop processes and shared resources such as storage. Daas can help companies launch new desktops and support BYOD (self-contained devices) policies.

Daas or HVD (hosted virtual desktops) providers provide a purely policy-controlled process (persistent or proprietary) that can be accessed by a wide range of devices. If you have an ipad 3 and a Bluetooth keyboard, you can use it. A Mac machine? You can use it. What about an old-fashioned Windows computer? You can also use it. The computers used to access the DAAS process are largely independent of the use of this process. This process can be a standard "office" function or part of a specific application setting.

We test the range of products from simple to comprehensive products. All A2U service providers such as Desktone, Dincloud, ICC Global Hosting, applications2u (Nivio) and the Daas that use the Citrix infrastructure to provide desktop processes are in our tests. However, each manufacturer's products are introduced from different angles, sometimes with a different attitude.

For this test, we accessed the cloud-based process in three different ways: Comcast (Comcast) 's residential broadband network, Comcast's Business broadband network (higher data speed) and some different virtual machine configurations through our data center in Carmel, Indiana.

We log in through the browser or through the proprietary application of the Daas vendor. Nivio can use the Quest vworkspace using Flash or html5;dincloud, while other services log on to HVD using a variety of different Citrix applications.

We like Nivio very simple settings. Nivio's "Happy Message" (the user can use his slogan to set the slogan) shows that it wants to attract more ordinary technicians. Dincloud has strong and fast performance.

Desktone is very easy to set up. Iccglobalhosting (ICCGH) has a strong sense of vertical application. APPLICATIONS2U seems to be geared toward independent software vendors and application providers. Application providers like the entire desktop product rather than web-based applications.

Some of the service providers in this test have a customer absorption process (e.g., Desktone, Dincloud, and ICCGH), while other providers (APPLICATIONS2U and Nivio) prefer "live desktops". For some reason, this absorption process is important because many of the decisions to be made before deployment need planning and thinking.

We may have only found a process that supports managed Windows (Windows 7 and Windows 2008R2 terminals). You can't find Mac OS because of the license limit for Apple. Hosted Linux processes are also hard to spot.

As for Office applications, most vendors can provide Microsoft Office and SharePoint software. They also expressed their willingness to use agency logos, "stock" applications and resource links as Daas desktop brands, and to negotiate the pre-installed software for a durable and dedicated process.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)