Desktone and NetApp Partnering

Desktone,
Inc. announced that it is
collaborating with NetApp, Inc. to provide a desktop as a service offering
for cloud service providers. Desktone will use NetApp storage technologies for
optimizing performance of the Desktone Cloud, the industry’s only purpose-built
cloud-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution.

The combined
solution was be previewed at VMworld in Desktone’s and NetApp’s
booth.

"Desktone is committed to delivering the most
cost-effective, high-performing desktop cloud platform on the market, and
leveraging innovative storage technology is key to enabling this," said
Peter McKay, CEO of Desktone. "By teaming with NetApp, we are ensuring
that our service providers and customers benefit from the high availability,
cost savings and flexibility that such advanced storage solutions make
possible."

"NetApp is committed to helping its service provider
partners succeed in the marketplace by offering solutions that enable them to
deploy differentiated and profitable enterprise-class services," said
Julie Parrish, senior vice president of Global Partner Sales, NetApp.
"Desktone has a deep understanding of the technologies required for a
compelling DaaS solution. The combined strengths of NetApp storage solutions
with Desktone’s cloud-hosted VDI technology provide a highly efficient offering
for service providers, which is optimized for performance and ROI."

Desktone launched a purpose-built
cloud-hosted virtual desktop platform more than four years ago. Desktone’s
architecture was built for delivering cloud-hosted DaaS, unlike traditional VDI
offerings. 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 unique. Desktone was recently named a Major
Player in desktop virtualization by IDC, which cited the company’s
current strengths and long-term strategy in delivering VDI solutions to market.

Desktone is collaborating with NetApp to leverage several of
NetApp’s technologies, bringing benefits to its
customers.

These include:

• NetApp FlexClone API, enables customers to quickly create
  new virtual desktops in minutes
• NetApp deduplication, offers extensive disk space capacity
  savings, significantly reducing the overall cost of storage
• NetApp Flash Cache technology, helps withstand peak I/O
  periods typical with Windows desktops, ensuring high desktop performance even
  during times of heavy load
• NetApp Snapshot technology for backing up and protecting
  desktops and gold images without impacting the operating environment