Overview of Desktop as a Service
What Is Desktop as a Service?
Desktop-as-a-serviceprovides a predictable and simple pay-as-a-go subscription model and makes it easy to scale up or down on-demand.
DaaS is easy to be managed and it simplifies many of the IT admin tasks of desktop solutions.
How Desktop as a Service Works?
DaaS delivers desktop and virtual programs through apublic or private cloudservice.
Microsoft Azure Desktop as a serviceis a subscription and multitenant service.
The DaaS provider then streams the virtual desktops to end-user devices.
The Windows as a service idea was put forward by Microsoft since the release of Windows 10.
In general, DaaS is just a form of VDI that is hosted incloud storage.
Relying on virtual desktop infrastructure, organizations deploy virtual desktops from their own on-premises data centers.
In-house IT teams are responsible for deploying the virtual desktops and buying, managing, and upgrading the VDI.
Windows desktop as a service is essentially the same thing but its infrastructure is cloud-based.
SaaS is hosted centrally and it is also called on-demand software or web-hosted/web-based software.
And, SaaS is formerly referred to as software plus services by Microsoft.
