cloud hosted desktops - the smart, low risk way to enter the cloud

Cloud-Hosted Desktops:The Smart, Low-Risk Way to Enter the Cloud

Jeff FisherSenior Director, Strategic Development | Desktone

Agenda

• Desktops as a Service (DaaS®)• VDI vs. DaaS: Shifting vs. Eliminating Capital Costs• De-capitalizing IT• The Promise & Challenge of the Cloud• Two Views of Enterprise Cloud Computing Adoption• Cloud-Hosted Desktops: The “Killer Service” for the Cloud?• Where’s this all headed? “Branch Office in the Sky”• Conclusion

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What is Desktops as a Service (DaaS®)

• A cost-effective, monthly subscription offering available today from leading service providers

• Service providers host virtual desktops on behalf of enterprises, who retain control over desktop access and management

• Solution for running virtualized, yet genuine Windows client environments (XP or Vista) in a service provider cloud

• Leverages industry standard hosted virtual desktop architecture (server virtualization + PC remoting technologies)


Desktops as a Service (DaaS®)


Virtual desktop

Access Device(Thin, Thick,

Repurposed PC, Laptop)

Desktone Element

Active Directory

User data

Business applications

Desktone Element

Enterprise VDI

• VDI = Centralizing desktops into virtual machines that run on data center servers

• Benefits• “Always-on” desktops that are

easily managed from a central location

• Dramatically reduced desktop deployment complexity

• Improved security and compliance

• Simplified issue resolution and recovery

• Genuine Windows client environments that are customizable and instantly accessible anytime, anywhere


Client

Virtualdesktop

User data and virtual machine

images

Servers

Enterprise VDI vs. DaaS: Shifting vs. Eliminating Capital Costs

• With enterprise VDI, corporate-owned desktops PCs are substituted for virtual desktops housed on a corporate-owned desktop hosting infrastructure

• Conversely, DaaS enables the infrastructure hosting the virtual desktops to be truly outsourced – owned and operated by a service provider

• This makes DaaS is a better fit for organizations looking to truly lower desktop CAPEX and OPEX as opposed to simply shifting internal IT costs


IT Leasing

Software as a Service

Cloud Computing

Managed Services

Manifestations Of A Broader Theme:The CFO Wants to Decapitalize IT . . .

Manifestations Of A Broader Theme:The CFO Wants to Decapitalize IT . . .

What Is Driving IT to Adopt These Technologies / Business Models . . .

Capacity on Demand Virtualization

Market Realities are Driving ITto Adopt Variable Capital Management

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The Promise of the Cloud

• Cloud computing is all the rage; surpassing the frenzy around virtualization

• Many of today’s conversations are about how virtualization can take place in the cloud

• Lots of touted benefits such as elasticity, anytime/anywhere access

• No CAPEX to get started; ongoing subscription economics


The Challenge of the Cloud

• Cloud computing for the enterprise in 2008/2009 = virtualized server workloads

• Shift introduces numerous challenges, most notably data security

• Most server workloads are inextricably bound to their data tier; if you move the server, you need to move the data

• Majority of enterprises are still uncomfortable having their data reside in a data center that’s not under their control

• Also, many back office servers are tightly integrated with other systems in the enterprise data center, which adds the to the complexity of moving them to the cloud


Two Views of the Universe

Aristotle’s Universe Copernicus’ Universe

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Two Views of Enterprise Cloud Computing

DaaS View

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Common View

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Copernicus’ Universe

Today Tomorrow

Common View ofEnterprise Cloud Computing Adoption

Computing resources and

data in the Enterprise




Computing resources

and enterprise data in the Cloud

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Start with Cloud-Hosted Desktops

• Desktone believes virtual desktops – not servers – are a better place to start with enterprise cloud computing

• Most fixed corporate desktops environments are architected to have application and user data stored off the local disk in the enterprise data center (AD domain controllers, home drives for user generated data and client/server apps)


The Security of Cloud-Hosted Desktops

• When you shift this kind of user environment to the cloud, the desktop instance has moved, but the data and back-end systems are still hosted in the enterprise data center

• Virtual desktops are now running in a highly secure, virtual branch office of the enterprise – that is, the service provider data center

• Additionally, if you virtualize and centralize physical PCs from remote branch or home offices with limited or no physical security, you’ve actually increased the security of the environment

• This means the PC won’t:• Walk off• Automatically let users copy data via printer, USB flash drive or other peripherals• Be infected by viruses from USB flash drives


TomorrowToday

DaaS View of Enterprise Cloud Computing Adoption






Hosted virtual desktops Hosted virtual

servers

Data

X

X

Client computing resources

in the Cloud

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Additional Benefitsof Cloud-Hosted Desktops• Preserves the rich Windows client

experience in the cloud, unlike other forms of cloud-hosted desktops (Shared Services and Browser-based)

• Sustains the existing enterprise IT operating model, while introducing cloud-like properties (elasticity, anytime/anywhere access, subscription economics)

• Separates service provider and enterprise responsibilities

• Supports a combination of on-and off-premise hosting models


Cloud-Hosted Desktops


Desktop PC

Virtual desktop

Access Device(Thin, thick,

repurposed PC, laptop)

Desktone Element

Active Directory

User data

Business applications

Desktone Element

Long TermNear Term

DaaS as the Driving Forcefor Other Forms of Cloud-based Hosting






Hosted virtual desktops

Hosted virtual desktops

Hosted virtual servers

Data

Client and server computing

resources and and enterprise data in the Cloud

Client computing

Resources in the Cloud

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Where’s this all headed?

• DaaS is just the starting point in a longer term vision of the “Branch Office in the Sky”

• This is the concept of virtualizing and centralizing all physical IT assets that currently live in distributed branch offices into a service provider cloud

• Branch IT assets include:• Desktops• Servers (directory, file, print, web filter/proxy, mail)

• By moving branch office IT to a service provider cloud, organizations can finally get out of the extremely costly and distracting business of maintaining IT assets in their branches


Conclusion

• DaaS is an emerging, yet viable delivery model (alongside enterprise VDI) for hosted virtual desktops

• DaaS = Cloud-Hosted Desktops• Cloud-hosted desktops are the smart, low-risk way to enter

the Cloud• Host virtual desktops with no CAPEX• Avoid moving sensitive systems and data to the cloud• Preserve the rich Windows client experience for end-users• Leverage existing IT operational and support models• Gain cloud-like benefits without full cloud migration• Choose between on-and off-premise hosting models (or both)


Thank You

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Enabling Desktops as a Service®

Jeff FisherSenior Director, Strategic [email protected](978) 710-0192

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