{"id":4598,"date":"2012-11-14T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=03dca5df841d8cc3f0ff08b730216784"},"modified":"2012-11-14T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:44:00","slug":"quest-pivotal-technologies-partner-to-deliver-desktops-as-a-cloud-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/quest-pivotal-technologies-partner-to-deliver-desktops-as-a-cloud-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest, Pivotal Technologies Partner to Deliver Desktops as a Cloud Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Desktone, Inc.<\/a>, today announced a partnership between Quest, a cloud service provider, and Pivotal Technologies Group<\/a>, a managed service provider. Based on the relationship, Pivotal will now offer Desktone-powered hosted Windows desktops provided by Quest as a managed service to businesses. The relationship represents an effective new way for service providers of all sizes to benefit from increasing demand for desktops as a cloud service. By providing the Desktone-powered DaaS offering to channel partners, Quest is able to expand their market opportunity while enabling managed service providers such as Pivotal the ability to offer virtual desktops without having to invest in costly infrastructure. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe built the Desktone Platform from day one for service providers like Quest and Pivotal that are tasked with helping end user organizations increase IT efficiencies while keeping their budgets in check,\u201d said David Grant, Vice President of Strategy, Desktone. \u201cWe have seen an explosion of interest from managed service providers (MSPs) that want to deliver DaaS but cannot build their own data centers. With DaaS, Quest is able to host and deploy virtual desktops from their data centers, making it easy for Pivotal to provision new desktops for end users whenever they\u2019re needed without investing in costly hardware and software.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cQuest is committed to its partners to capitalize on cloud computing opportunities like DaaS that are in the greatest demand among customers today,\u201d said Adam Burke, Director of Quest\u2019s Technology Partner Program. \u201cOur partnership with Pivotal is a testament to the unique value proposition that Quest delivers as a partner of choice to accelerate their time to market and provide the greatest value of cloud services to their end customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Small and mid-sized service providers often don\u2019t have the capacity for hosted offerings. By leveraging Desktone\u2019s multi-tenant DaaS solution, Quest can provide MSPs like Pivotal a simple, affordable way to offer virtual desktops to end user organizations. The multi-tenant architecture makes it easy to deliver secure, scalable virtual desktops as a cloud service without the expense and hassle of infrastructure integration and maintenance.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur customers look to Pivotal to solve their IT pain points. One of the biggest challenges we see is organizations looking to support mobile and remote workers,\u201d said Jim Law, President, Pivotal Technologies Group. \u201cWe previously offered our customers desktops from a traditional VDI provider but found the service expensive and difficult to manage because of issues with speed and availability. By transitioning to the Quest DaaS model powered by Desktone we are able to streamline desktop management and improve reliability while reducing the price per desktop by half.\u201d<\/p>\n

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DaaS Offering Enables Rapid Virtual Desktop Deployments on Any Device LEXINGTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), today announced a partnership between Quest®, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216,229,898,48,1217,1218,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desktone","category-desktop-virtualization","category-managed-services","category-partnerships","category-total-cost-of-ownership","category-virtual-desktop","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}