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Desktone Partners With VMware To Deliver Desktop-as-a-Service Offering

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Desktone, provider of Desktops-as-a-Service (DaaS), today announced it is partnering with VMware to deliver a new desktop-as-a-service solution.

The solution will make it easy for service providers to offer full-featured, highly cost-effective virtual desktops.

The joint VMware-Desktone roadmap includes:

– Desktone DaaS Platform: Launched more than four years ago for delivering cloud-hosted DaaS. Features such as multi-tenancy, grid architecture, role separation, and cloud economics achieved through substantial use of open source, are what make the Desktone offering attractive.

– VMware View 5 with PCoIP display protocol: Enables service providers to enhance their Desktone-powered DaaS solutions by providing an end-user experience that is comparable to that available with a physical PC.

– VMware vSphere 5 and cloud infrastructure suite: Enables service providers to leverage the industry’s leading cloud infrastructure platform providing security, reliability, high availability, reduced cost and optimal performance for cloud-hosted desktops.

– VMware vCloud technology: Enables service providers to take advantage of common orchestration and automation by integrating the Desktone Platform directly with a hypervisor.

The VMware View-based DaaS offering will be available to service providers later this year.

Desktone, GMO CLOUD To Make Cloud-Hosted Virtual Desktops Big In Japan

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Desktone today announced that it has partnered with GMO CLOUD K.K., the leading Japanese cloud solutions provider, to bring cloud-hosted virtual desktops to the Japanese market.

With this announcement, Desktone further extends its global delivery of virtual desktops.

The Desktone Cloud is a product for enabling virtual desktops in the cloud. By using the Desktone Cloud as the foundation of its DaaS service, GMO CLOUD helps customers instantly benefit from virtual desktops at a cost that is significantly lower than those typically associated with traditional VDI and shared desktop environments.

GMO CLOUD’s Desktone-powered DaaS service will be available on October 27, 2011, branded as “IQcloud Desktop.”

Desktone Teams Up With mindSHIFT Technologies For Virtual Desktops In The Cloud

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Desktone, which specializes in cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service (DaaS), has announced that it is partnering with mindSHIFT Technologies, an IT outsourcing and cloud services provider for small and mid-size businesses (SMBs).

The companies are working together to bring a premium cloud-hosted virtual desktop solution to mindSHIFT customers.

This new cloud-based offering combines Desktone’s virtual desktop infrastructure technology with mindSHIFT’s cloud portfolio and MSP services to provide SMBs with a comprehensive IT solution.

Desktone To Leverage Platform Equinix For Cloud-Hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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Equinix, a provider of data center services, today announced that Desktone, which markets Cloud-hosted Desktops-as-a-Service, will leverage Platform Equinix to launch the next generation of its cloud-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

Desktone selected Equinix for its proximity to existing customers and target markets, flexible global infrastructure, and ability to scale to support rapid growth in end-user utilization and adoption.

Desktone will initially deploy in North America, and has plans to expand globally across Platform Equinix.

Cloud-hosted VDI requires unique infrastructure to support end-user performance requirements and lower service delivery costs. When latency targets aren’t met, end-user applications are significantly impacted and compromise the customer experience.

As such, proximity of the VDI cloud deployment to the end-user communities is one of the crucial requirements when choosing a data center provider. Desktone says it is committed to delivering sub-20 millisecond latency for all of the markets it serves to ensure a differentiating, high-quality customer experience.

Desktone Announces New Cloud-hosted Virtual Desktop Webinar Series

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Desktone has announced a new weekly webinar for managed service providers (MSPs).

The webinar, “Profiting from Cloud-hosted Virtual Desktops: How MSPs can Leverage the Desktone Cloud,” takes place on Wednesdays, 2:00PM – 3:00PM EDT.

Participants will learn about the Desktone Cloud, a solution for delivering virtual desktops in the cloud. Desktone will discuss how MSPs can expand their businesses by providing a compelling cloud computing offering to small and mid-sized organizations, and will cover partner benefits, requirements and the sales process.

For more information about the Desktone MSP webinar series, or to register, click here.

Desktone Appoints Peter McKay as President and CEO

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Desktone, provider of a platform that enables hosted virtual desktops as a service, today announced that Peter McKay has joined the company as President and Chief Executive Officer.

McKay, who is now a member of Desktone’s board, has more than 25 years of experience in building enterprise software companies, including executive positions with Watchfire, IBM, eCredit, Computer Associates, and Parametric Technologies.

The appointment follows Desktone’s recent closing of a series B round of funding, which is being used to extend the company’s sales and marketing initiatives. Harry Ruda, Desktone’s previous CEO, will become chairman of the Board of Directors and will work alongside McKay to ensure a smooth transition.

McKay’s expertise in growing software companies comes from experience with both venture and IT organizations. Prior to joining Desktone, he was an executive at North Bridge Venture Partners and Insight Ventures. He also advised many venture and private equity-backed firms, including Spotfire, Application Security, and Lagan Software.

As President and CEO of Watchfire, McKay grew revenues from $3 million to $50 million, while securing leading marketshare and directing the company’s acquisition by IBM, where McKay continued on as VP of IBM Rational Software Group.

Prior to Watchfire, McKay was President and CEO of eCredit, increasing annualized revenue from $3 million to $25 million via a global direct and indirect channel strategy, before it was sold to Internet Capital Group. He came to eCredit having held senior executive positions at Parametric Technologies as well as Computer Associates, where he was Senior Vice President of Worldwide Indirect Sales responsible for over $500 million in revenue and a team of 350 people.

McKay holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from Northeastern University.