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Amazon's WorkSpaces becomes generally available |
March 26, 2014
Amazon Web Services’ hosted virtual desktops have become generally available, priced from US$35, but the company and its competitors have a lot of hurdles to overcome before this sort of technology is widely used by businesses.The desktop-as-a-service market has become interesting. Before Amazon’s Wednesday announcement on its WorkSpaces service, VMware earlier this month launched its Horizon DaaS, based on the company’s acquisition of Desktone.The pitch for DaaS is the same as for many other hosted services, and includes lower capital investments and management costs. The cost of WorkSpaces is “highly competitive with traditional desktops and half the cost of most virtual desktop infrastructure” platforms, according to Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2112280/amazons-workspaces-becomes-generally-available.html#tk.rss_all
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