A Profitable Hybrid Desktop as a Service Solution
Manish Dhall, Qing Tan · 2019
Corporate IT is aggressively seeking their daily needs of cloud-based services on "Pay-As-You-Go" (PAYG) basis. Various cloud vendors (Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Google etc.) have their various structured cloud services offer focusing on cloud basic services. Building an innovative solution using one deployment model with the use of various cloud service models has been challenging. Various service providers (SPs) including Hosting Service Providers (HSPs), Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Telecommunication Companies (TelCos), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) see these big gaps as a big monetizing opportunity with Small Medium Business (SMB) customers. SPs have built competitive business models with PAYG approach in leading this space of innovatively creating the customized solution offers using cloud computing hybrid model. "Desktop as a Service" (DaaS) solution is well received offer among SMB customers across multiple industry verticals with compliance requirements. A cost estimation model with reference architectures is discussed with various economy model for the solution. In this paper, we will present a profitable hybrid Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution.