Windows as a Service – a new term emerges

There are a lot of terms to describe hosted virtual desktops (HVD) including VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure), desktop as a service (DaaS), and more recently, windows as a service (WaaS).

CIO Magazine, which is hosted on CIO.com just ran a feature, Top 10 Cloud Startups. And guess who made the list? dinCloud was first shortlisted to the top 25, and now we made the list for the top 10 cloud startups for 2013.

Twelve days of limited or no telephone, electricity, internet and access to the business systems that are vital to run a business. Sounds like a nightmare, right? This was the reality for some companies, VARs and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) that supported these companies after Hurricane Sandy struck on October 29, 2012. For many companies, this was a rude awakening to say the least. One colleague who runs a MSP company with customers that have hundreds of servers and thousands of workstations told me that he had to run the company from home using his cell phone and home network because his business was affected by the outage. 

Zero Client Devices for VDI?

There is a lot of talk about zero clients and thin clients, especially to support VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure). Zero client aka. Ultra-thin client is a hardware device, like a PC, but it has no operating system, no hard-drive, and no memory.