Desktop as a Service (DaaS) has evolved over the years but the concept of being available as a turn-key service has not changed. Numerous vendors have come and gone, offering DaaS in one version or another. Some have built their own software, trying to compete against the likes of Microsoft. Others have adopted 3rd party software that attempts to beat Microsoft at its own game. As the data center evolved and software defined networking and the software defined data center became more mainstream, costs came down in supporting DaaS. Yet, the complexity of integrating servers, storage, networking, and connectivity is still a mix of art and science.

Today, only a few DaaS providers are able to offer this turn-key service. ATSG of course being a mainstay in the business. With the evolution of DaaS, performance improvements, software enhancements, internet and connectivity stability, and continual security bolstering have turned DaaS into a very robust offering that is worth considering.

How DaaS Works?

DaaS is a combination of running servers, networks, and storage in a reliable and high performance manner. Connectivity has a lot to do with the ability of customers to access their virtual desktop. One benefit of VDI has been that employees can access their virtual desktop and their applications and shared files from the same network. With ATSG, you can run both DaaS and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) in the same private data center. All this is wrapped by layers of security. This allows a company to access DaaS over an internet connection through a browser. The browser works with a connection broker that securely accesses the individual desktop of the employee. From there, the virtualized desktop is running on a powerful server as an independent virtual machine. It is allocated its own CPU processing power, memory (RAM allocation), and storage. Thus, it runs as a normal desktop would run.