Why is VDI wrong for most SMBs and DaaS right?

Posted on June 4, 2015

By Lanny Gray, SVP

If you’ve looked into VDI for your small or medium business IT over the past few years, it’s probably because you heard about all the advantages a virtual desktop environment promises. But if all the advantages are real (which they certainly are in most cases), why has VDI failed to gain mainstream momentum?

That’s the million-dollar question. And I’d like to think I have the answer.

Plain and simple, VDI is hindered by both cost and complexity. VDI is costly to build. As a SMB, you’d be developing an internal virtual environment that you customize, house and maintain. VDI can also be costly and difficult to support: because you house it, you also own any problems it has or updates it needs. The combination of these two elements means all of the benefits of VDI – the ease and flexibility of IT, the access-from-anywhere BYOD-friendly portability and more – are reserved just for enterprise-sized companies that have the staff and resources to run their own virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

At least until now.

I eagerly joined Nuvestack when I saw the platform that makes DaaS (Desktop as a Service) become available to companies of all sizes by removing these cost and complexity barriers. DaaS, as I mentioned in a previous post, is really a superset of VDI. You get a lot of the same small and medium business IT benefits from DaaS that you would from VDI (actually more benefits), while leaving the maintain-it-yourself costs and headaches behind. With DaaS, you subscribe to a service – the “S” in DaaS – which should mean that you’re not doing your own support, the service provider is (and btw, it’s always good to ask any provider before you sign – there are plenty out there that expect you to support their service, but to us, that’s not really a service).

Nuvestack engineers and developers spent almost a full year automating most of the complex tasks that are required to enable and support DaaS. Having been in the data/telecom world for over 25 years, I’ve seen a lot of companies attempt to “productize” VDI/DaaS, but Nuvestack is the only one I’ve seen get it right. We make virtual, Cloud computing via DaaS simple for our customers by providing an all-inclusive fee (simplified budgeting), support (simplified IT) and migration to a new system (just plain simple), all with top-notch security (stress relieved), app licensing (burden removed), and speed that you won’t believe.

I realize that I can talk up the benefits of DaaS all day but it may be easier to learn them all through our short video, which explains how DaaS works for a business. Watch it to understand more. And be sure to let me know whenever you have questions or want a demo of what I consider to be the best DaaS around.