This approach enables customers to migrate to the cloud at their own pace.

Released late 2022, Workspaces Core represents a way to integrate your existing VDI environments with AWS, which then lets you locate workloads wherever you want in a true hybrid cloud manner without having to perform a rip-and-replace migration. While Amazon Workspaces still exists with what I think is probably the closest thing to true desktop as a service - in that I give you a credit card, you give me a desktop - there are exciting developments happening around a platform called Amazon Workspaces Core. Plus, along the way, customers also had to deal with licensing issues around Microsoft products mentioned above. There's little doubt that I've left someone out, so if you're in that boat, check out my contact details below and let's chat! Amazon Workspaces CoreĪmazon Workspaces was never really viewed as a compelling option for large enterprise organizations because it represented a sort of shift in approaches and didn't integrate well with existing platforms, requiring a forklift migration. Here is the list, in alphabetical order rather than any ranking or sequence, of the companies covered in this article: Every time Microsoft put out a new version of Remote Desktop Services ( RDS), customers wondered if they could finally ditch Citrix, VMware or whomever.

To be clear, this is the way it's always been.

Many that I spoke with mentioned that customers would try to use AVD out of the box, only to circle back when they needed some more advanced capabilities.

Most, if not all, of these vendors are finding success attracting dissatisfied Citrix, VMware and Microsoft customers, or those that have simpler use cases.

As a Qualified Multitenant Hoster (QMTH), Dizzion is able to deliver Office 365 in a consumption model. Office is still available as a perpetual license, and there are other options, such as Dizzion, outlined below.

Customers will have limited options for Microsoft Office when using a non-Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)-based platform.

There are some common threads throughout this list: While I'm certain that I'm missing a few, let's take a moment to get familiar with the other players in the desktop virtualization and desktop-as-a-service ( DaaS) market. This, coupled with the global increased demand for remote work and corporate instability at both Citrix and VMware, has led to opportunities for lesser-known desktop virtualization platforms to increase their mind - and market - share.

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