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    How can a small (one man shop) ITSP offer DaaS realisticly?

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      If you intend to do Windows, which I expect is true, you have to do VDI. There isn't a way to do multi-tenant remote desktops for third parties without VDI, I don't think. Unless you do "customer by customer" RDS or XenApp servers which gets really complex.

      Amazon does VDI. Not sure how you would effectively compete with Amazon's mature offering.

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      • ?
        A Former User @A Former User
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        @Hubtech said:

        sorry, meant desktop as a service

        Why are the applications listed then?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          Realistically, I don't think that this can be done. This is an existing, commodity service available from the "big boys." You are into the tight margins of the big players and even if you can make a case today you are going to be squeezed out of existence as the big data center players make the industry commodity price lower and lower every six months.

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          • ?
            A Former User
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            I meant a basic desktop that had access to office, exchange for email, and line of business applications. I am pretty sure I mentioned windows in my OP. Just looking for ideas. not sure about multi-tenant, or one-off deployments etc. just content creating 🙂

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @A Former User
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              @thecreativeone91 said:

              @Hubtech said:

              sorry, meant desktop as a service

              Why are the applications listed then?

              That's what threw us all off. Applications don't apply to DaaS. If you get DaaS, you just install your apps there, it's not part of the package. I mean in theory in some cases it could be, but the licensing would be a massive problem. And only certain things would apply, just desktop apps, not server apps.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said:

                Realistically, I don't think that this can be done. This is an existing, commodity service available from the "big boys." You are into the tight margins of the big players and even if you can make a case today you are going to be squeezed out of existence as the big data center players make the industry commodity price lower and lower every six months.

                Desktop as a service can work for niche players with specific desktop configurations that you could setup on Amazon or elsewhere. You are not really providing the desktop, just a preconfigured specific desktop at this point.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                  @Hubtech said:

                  I meant a basic desktop that had access to office, exchange for email, and line of business applications. I am pretty sure I mentioned windows in my OP. Just looking for ideas. not sure about multi-tenant, or one-off deployments etc. just content creating 🙂

                  Any Windows desktop would have access to Office. In theory you could block that somehow, but it's a desktop, the owner would just install the apps that they want.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                    @JaredBusch said:

                    @scottalanmiller said:

                    Realistically, I don't think that this can be done. This is an existing, commodity service available from the "big boys." You are into the tight margins of the big players and even if you can make a case today you are going to be squeezed out of existence as the big data center players make the industry commodity price lower and lower every six months.

                    Desktop as a service can work for niche players with specific desktop configurations that you could setup on Amazon or elsewhere. You are not really providing the desktop, just a preconfigured specific desktop at this point.

                    That makes sense. You would need to be very niche for it to make sense. Difficult to find customers.

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                    • ?
                      A Former User
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                      This is really a lot more complex to provide than even SaaS. In theory it's easier but with multi-tenancy it would complicate the normal VDI setup dramatically. I'd stay away and from providing this. It will not be cheap to do it right.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Definitely more complicated than IaaS, which is complicated enough. Many fewer players, though.

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