What’s New With VDIs and DaaS?
All marketing and messaging for new-age VDIs and DaaS claims to be the fix for the traditional legacy solutions, which have their own, similar if not close, fallbacks. The reason why the virtual desktop industry remains plagued with user sentiments like clunky, obtrusive, and turns expensive despite promises to be Op-Ex friendly, remains a top concern as we shift full gears into our enterprise product.
The companies that need VDIs and DaaS don't opt in for the convenience or the cost, but more for the control levers they get especially in highly data-sensitive and remote/hybrid work. This doesn't mean they relish the thought of an unattractive and laggy workspace, it purely necessitates the need for certain guardrails in place while your work remains undisturbed and as native as your local machines.
This is especially true in the case of software and design led firms where an unhappy end-user experience can possibly eat up the money you save by switching to virtual desktops.
It also made us think a little more about the claims of lack of innovation in the virtual desktop space. And, how that might just not be the case.
Here is a curated list of the few truly useful and helpful features that we have seen coming out of the industry in the last year:
Citrix's Autoscale for On-Prem Deployments
Neverinstall's Deployments in Seconds
Parallel's SMB Specific DaaS Solution
AVD’s Azure AD Joined VMs
Apart from these, companies in this sector have had their hands busy with improving performance, latencies, and integrating key parts of users' generic workflow with their solutions.
For instance, just in the last year, Citrix introduced the Citrix Universal subscription, while features like HDX Direct (Tech Preview), EDT Lossy (EDT Loss tolerant mode), and dynamic revocation of user access are planned for 2024.
VMWare introduced several improvements in their security and performance angles with features like password policy reminders to help mitigate password reset failures.
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