Meet the Team: Rachmann Joubert
Today, we’re shining the spotlight on Rachmann Joubert, a Sage Support Specialist who has brought his wealth of software development experience to the role to help build solutions for our clients.
Let's take a brief look at what DaaS is, as well as its advantages and disadvantages.
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a service where virtual applications/virtual desktops, via a third-party public or private cloud service, are made accessible (streamed) to users over the Internet via an HTML-based web browser or a secure application downloaded to the user’s device(s). DaaS is usually licensed with a per-user subscription.
VDI refers to the backend ‘virtual desktop infrastructure’ of DaaS, including the ‘virtual machines’ (VM) that run desktop operating systems and are hosted by the third-party cloud provider.
A virtual machine (VM) is a virtual environment which operates just like a ‘computer within a computer’. It runs on its own isolated part of its host computer and has its own resources that enable it to let end-users operate it (run apps on it) as they would a physical workstation.
The advantages of DaaS:
Some disadvantages include:
Examples of DaaS providers/services include Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop (previously Windows Virtual Desktop WVD), Amazon WorkSpaces, VMware Horizon Cloud, Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, Cloudalize, V2 Cloud, and dinCloud (dinWorkSpace).
Many businesses have made the move to the cloud anyway and are also now used to the subscription economy and the ‘as-a-service’ model of delivery e.g., Windows 10. The DaaS model clearly offers many benefits, to businesses e.g., cost and resource savings, centralisation, security, flexibility, and simplification, as well as being particularly useful at a time when remote working and now the move to hybrid working have become important. DaaS also enables companies to improve the agility of data workloads, get important business insights more quickly, offer a better work access solution to employees as well as free the business from many of the traditional IT management and admin challenges.
Today, we’re shining the spotlight on Rachmann Joubert, a Sage Support Specialist who has brought his wealth of software development experience to the role to help build solutions for our clients.
Today we're getting to know one of Paradise Computing's IT Support Engineers - Ashley Curtis. Ashley plays a vital role in supporting the IT infrastructure of our clients and supports them with his expert IT knowledge.
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