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| 8 With DaaS, you contract with a third-party provider to satisfy your digital workspace needs rather than deploying and managing the hardware and software for VDI yourself. Most desktop-as-a-service offerings are hosted either in the cloud or in a service provider's data center, but there are also alternatives where the provider deploys and manages the service on infrastructure in your data center. Today, many enterprises are choosing desktop-as-a-service solutions as a complement to their existing VDI deployments, while others choose it as an alternative to VDI. In both scenarios, DaaS provides substantial benefits because it can: • Eliminate the need for VDI infrastructure deployment and management • Accelerate delivery of digital workspaces to users • Reduce capital costs The Perfect Complement to VDI If you already have a successful VDI deployment, it may not be immediately clear why you would also need DaaS, but there are a variety of use cases where DaaS can help you address datacenter space, IT staff, and budget constraints, complementing your existing VDI deployment(s): • Temporary, seasonal, and contract workers. If your business experiences big changes in worker numbers, DaaS can enable you to meet demand for workers without sizing your VDI deployment for peak usage and adding capital expense. You can instead provision digital workspaces immediately and terminate access when contracts expire. • Business continuity/disaster recovery. With DaaS, you can quickly provision secondary workspaces if disaster strikes and ensure that your employees are able to remain productive. • M&A. DaaS can help you accelerate onboarding of new employees during acquisitions and enable them to get immediate access to important company applications, data, and services. • ROBO. It can be difficult to deploy infrastructure to support remote locations, and they may be too far from your data centers to be supported by your existing VDI deployment. DaaS can make it possible to support remote locations with minimal onsite infrastructure. It can also help get new locations up and running quickly. • Emerging needs. DaaS can also make it possible to quickly address needs that your current VDI deployment doesn't handle. For example, you may need to add support for applications with GPU-accelerated graphics or you may need to support highly mobile employees who are never in the same location—or even the same country—from one week to the next. • Project-driven work. DaaS can allow you to quickly respond to the needs of a project that involves a ramp up and down of workers (employees, consultants, partners, and even customers) where you don't want to expose your entire organization's network and intellectual property to those workers. Put the data and applications required for them to do their work in the cloud. When they are done, take the results (data) and eliminate the workspaces to eliminate the IT costs. • Dev/Test. Eliminate shadow IT with consistent, pre-configured development and test environments that are easy to consume and IT approved. Chapter 2. Why Desktop as a Service?

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