Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers

Desktop as a Service

What is Desktop as a Service Providers?

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud offering where a desktop environment is offered by a hosted service, provided through virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provisioning.

Common Features

  • Desktop Management
  • Device Support
  • Desktop Environment
  • Secure Connectivity
  • Multi Tenant Architecture
  • Outsourced Backend Administration
  • Bulk Patching and Updates
  • Billing Optimization and Management
  • Delivery Optimization
  • Integration with ITSM and ITAM Tools
  • Integration with Endpoint Management Tools
  • Integration with Security Management Tools
  • Integration with Event Monitoring Services
  • Per Unit Time Pricing

Top Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers

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Top Desktop as a Service Providers 2024

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8.2 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. Amazon WorkSpaces can provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe. Amazon WorkSpaces helps eliminate the complexity in managing hardware inventory, OS versions and patches, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which helps simplify your desktop delivery strategy.

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Pros

  • Caring
  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Inspires Innovation
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VMware, Inc.

VMware Horizon

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

The VMware Horizon DaaS Platform is the only virtual desktop platform built from the ground up for cloud delivery. Now VMware enables service providers to offer Windows desktops a in a truly scalable cloud-based architecture.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
  • Saves Time
  • Client Friendly Policies
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Microsoft Corporation

Azure Virtual Desktop

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Effective Service
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
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Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Cloudalize’s GPU-powered virtual desktops bring instant flexibility, mobility, speed of execution and ease of use to engineers, designers, architects, gamers and other computing-heavy users thanks to its Desktop-as-a-Service Platform MyGDaaS. Cloudalize creates vast new markets and a valuable distribution channel for GPU-intensive applications by turning any browser-enabled and internet-connected device into a powerful graphics workstation.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Fair
  • Acts with Integrity
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Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

Create the most empowering employee experience possible. Across every device. On any network. Employees get the same secure, virtual experience across operating systems. You manage it all in a single console.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Altruistic
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7.0 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) frees businesses from the endless cycle of purchasing, supporting, upgrading and ultimately replacing local PCs by providing an untethered “virtual” workspace that can be accessed from anywhere, at any time, on nearly any device. Moreover, customers and end users can control their DaaS environment via a self-service web portal.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Friendly Negotiation

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V2 Cloud

V2 Cloud

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
6.9 /10

A fully customizable cloud desktop for businesses of all sizes.

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Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Accelera Solutions Inc

Connected Workspace

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Connected Workspace is securely managed and hosted by Accelera in a secure cloud provider network and delivered to employees over the web to any device. Connected Workspace Online includes a virtual desktop (DaaS), email, office productivity and line of business applications, file sharing and sync, as well as Mobile Device Management. Accelera's DaaS solution helps companies reduce the risk of data loss or intrusion with secure virtual desktops and applications. The solution is available with multi-factor authentication, FIPS and FedRAMP compliance, HIPAA and more.

GridWay Computing Corporation

GridWay Desktop as a Service

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GridWay can deliver desktops as a service to end users from our data centre with levels of availability and reliability unmatched by traditional PCs. Users can access their personal desktop from any device, at anytime, from anywhere, giving them more flexibility and enabling greater mobility. Centralizing the management of desktops as well as the user applications, increases control over access to data and enables better endpoint security.

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Nutanix Frame enables customers to quickly and securely provision access to apps, desktops, and data to users on any device with a browser from anywhere. Explore our cloud desktop service.