A Case for Virtual Server Hosting

DataCenter Dynamics has posted a research study that validates a common statistic available today – that “keeping the lights on” takes up 70% of the time and efforts of either the IT department, or the person designated as the “IT guy or gal”. This means that the majority of one or more peoples’ time is spent on maintenance mode

Desktop as a Service and Hosted Virtual Desktops

For a while, I have been seeing people talk about DaaS (desktop as a service). While this is exactly what it sounds like, and is similar to IaaS (infrastructure as a service) and SaaS (software as a service) – when we first rolled out our services, we decided to follow the thought leaders.

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is the provisioning of remote hosted virtual desktops using a remote server to host personal computer desktops simultaneously. The days of IT professionals marching from computer to computer performing the same tasks on multiple PCs are thankfully over.

Gartner published its list of top 11 predictions in 2012 – a much anticipated list that we read religiously. One of their predictions is that 35% of IT Budgets will be managed outside the IT department by 2015. CIOs will see their budget reallocated to a different business unit where the business manager is in control.