Desktone has been rapidly attracting keen attention and broad coverage. Click on any article below to read more.

• Delivering desktop PCs through the cloud: April 29, 2010 - "Desktone has a complete cloud-based product for virtual desktops."
• The Benefits Of Virtual Desktops: January 12, 2010 - "Computing alternatives abound. Desktops-as-a-Service is the next wave."
• Virtual desktop alternatives to Citrix and VMware: December 21, 2009 - "The big virtual desktop vendors get all the attention...Another option comes from Desktone Inc."
• IBM brings desktop cloud to market: December 3, 2009 - "IBM has announced general availability of its DaaS offering in Europe"
• 2010 Brings Adoption of Desktops as a Service: December 2, 2009 - "As DaaS offerings come online, end-users will surely follow"
• NetApp and Desktone Deliver Flexible, Efficient Storage for Cloud-Based Virtual Desktop Infrastructures: October 20, 2009 - "Combines Desktone's Virtual-D Platform with NetApp's Industry-Leading Storage"
• Desktone brings virtual desktop cloud services to Europe: September 21, 2009 - "The proposal is that telecoms operators can provide virtual desktop infrastructure services to enterprise organisations without them having to build and deploy a VDI solution internally."
• Bring thin clients to the home: September 16, 2009 - "Desktone is one company that offers what it calls Desktops-as-a-Service. Essentially, it sells software that enables…service providers to build a hosted desktop infrastructure."
• IBM announces a Desktop-as-a-Service cloud with VMware, Citrix, Desktone and Wyse technologies: September 14, 2009 - "...Desktone of course will glue the whole thing..."
• IBM puts virtual desktops in the cloud: September 1, 2009 - "IBM doesn't have much of its own desktop virtualization software so it built a "best of breed" product using...virtual desktop infrastructure software from Desktone."
• IBM Brings Desktops to the Cloud: August 31, 2009 - "Desktone claims the first and only virtual desktop hosting platform designed specifically for the cloud, providing multi-tenancy and support for multiple datacenters."
• IBM Unveils Industry's First Public Desktop Cloud: August 31, 2009 - "Through key technology and business partnerships with Citrix, Desktone, VMware and Wyse,..."
• DABCC: Podcast – Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) Podcast with Jeff Fisher from Desktone, Inc.: July 17, 2009 - Doug Brown from DABCC interviews Jeffrey Fisher from Desktone.
• ZDNet 'BriefingsDirect' by Dana Gardner: Virtual desktop services gain TCO boost with HP clients, Desktone cloud-based 'DaaS' advances: June 1, 2009 - "DaaS specifically describes an outsourced subscription service for server-hosted desktops powered by the Desktone Virtual-D Platform and delivered by Desktone-certified service provider partners."
• eSchool News: Subscription-based cloud helps Pike County extend computers to more students: March 4, 2009 - "With cloud-computing software from Desktone Inc., the district transformed its relic computers that were ready for the scrap heap into fast, fully functioning virtual machines."
• Brian Madden: Predictions for 2009: February 20, 2009 - "Desktone's senior management are ex-Softricity people, so these are not people who you ignore..."
• Have Mac, Will Blog: 10 IT Companies to Track in 2009: January 8, 2009 - "I can’t help but like Desktone’s cloud proposition."
• Virtual Strategy Magazine: Enterprises Get Virtual Desktops from the Cloud: December 8, 2008 - "By putting virtual desktops in the cloud, enterprises can realize VDI's centralization and ease of management benefits, while offloading the cost of building VDI themselves."
• Contact Center World: Answering Contact Center IT Challenges with Virtual Hosted Desktops: November 20, 2008 (Subscription required)
• Cloud Computing Journal: Cloud Hosted Desktops - The Smart, Low-Risk Way to Enter the Cloud: November 11, 2008 - "How are enterprises going to be able to get started with cloud computing? The answer could be for them to begin with virtual clients, instead of virtual servers, as the first step in the journey."
• Virtual Strategy Magazine: Extending Green Initiatives with Virtual Desktops: September 30, 2008 - "By implementing thin client virtual desktops and choosing a DaaS service provider that is committed to renewable energy, you can achieve a win-win:  reducing your impact on the environment and substantially lowering your costs."
• Brian Madden: A roundup of the desktop / application vendors at VMworld 2008: September 23, 2008 - "Desktone is a real product today, although it's offered as a "white box" service that other vendors resell and brand as their own."
• MarketWatch: IBM Accelerates Virtual Desktop With Breakthrough Solution: September 16, 2008 - "Through key technology and business partnerships with VMware and Desktone IBM is helping public sector, academic institutions and financial organizations around the world"
• ZDNet 'BriefingsDirect' by Dana Gardner: Desktone, Wyse bring Flash content to desktop virtualization delivery: September 15, 2008 - "Desktone hopes to overcome two major roadblocks to the adoption of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with today’s announcement of a partnership that will bring rich media to virtual desktops and a try-before-you-buy program."
• Virtual Strategy Magazine: Debunking the 'No ROI in Virtual Desktop Computing' Myth August 26, 2008 - "Gartner expects virtualization to be the highest-impact trend in IT infrastructure through 2012."
• Virtualization Review: Desktone Places a Big Bet on DaaS: July/August 2008 - "The traditional way that a vendor sells to a large enterprise is to say, ‘Write us a check for several millions of dollars for some tools upfront and then go figure out how to save money in the future.’ We don’t think that’s the right recipe."
• Have Mac, Will Blog: 10 More IT Companies to Track in 2008/2009: July 23, 2008 - "With Desktone you have thin clients on the desktop and control of client virtualization from the data center, but all of the server side hardware can be in the cloud."
• Virtual Strategy Magazine: The Evolution of Corporate Computing: From SaaS to DaaS July 22, 2008 - "SaaS is a stepping stone to DaaS (desktops as a service) where not just singular applications, but entire desktops will be consumed as an outsourced, subscription service."
• eSchool News: District solves computer parity problem in its schools : July 18, 2008 - "...under the agreement with IBM, and using the Desktone DaaS software, the schools' 1,400 internet-enabled computers will have access...regardless of the age of the device or whether it's a PC or a thin client."
• ZDNet 'BriefingsDirect' by Dana Gardner: DaaS solves schools' Internet parity problem with help from IBM and Desktone: July 17, 2008 - "The Pike County, Ky., schools have solved an Internet access parity problem with a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) solution from IBM and Desktone."
• IBM Inks Innovative Technology Agreement With Pike County Schools: July 14, 2008 - "Pike County School today announced they have signed an enhanced internet access agreement to provide Virtual Infrastructure Access desktop hosting services to the school district."
• Virtual Strategy Magazine: Virtual Desktops: Where Enterprise Computing Meets Telco Delivery June 23, 2008 - "...[F]or enterprises to fully realize its benefits, VDI must be available as a flexible, cost-effective, scalable service rather than a complicated melange of expensive and temperamental pieces and parts."
• IT Business Edge: Virtual Desktops: It’s All About the Network: May 22, 2008 - "Citrix is also getting its foot in the door of the nascent desktop-as-a-service (DAAS) market, offering financial backing to start-up Desktone. The company has devised the Virtual-D platform that provides full desktop functionality over public or corporate networks."
• Brightcove: Quick Video Chat with Desktone CEO at Citrix Synergy 2008: May 21, 2008
• Client Server News 2000: HP Signs Up for DaaS: May 19, 2008 - "HP and its utility-style Flexible Computing Services are the first members of Desktone's just unveiled partner program." (PDF file 180KB)
• ZDNet 'BriefingsDirect' by Dana Gardner: HP partners with Desktone to advance virtualized desktops as a service: May 14, 2008 - "Desktone, the desktop as a service (DaaS) provider, has lined up a powerful ally in Hewlett-Packard..."
• Desktone: Client Virtualization in the Cloud: May 6, 2008 - "Desktone's Virtual-D Platform provides the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that you would otherwise have to build for any client virtualization solution."
• AJAXWorld: Desktone to Support Hyper-V Virtualization: May 1, 2008 - Desktone Announced That it Has Joined the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program
• Judith Hurwitz's Weblog: The Desktop as a Service: Can Desktone be a Focal Point?: April 28, 2008 - "...a leading indicator of where the desktop is headed...desktop as a service is the right conversation for the industry to be having just about now."
• InfoWorld: Desktone's virtualization desktop-as-a-service: April 27, 2008 - "The company has a strong management team who knows what it takes to deliver a product to market."
• IDM.net.au: Outsourcing Desktops: April 23, 2008 - "The company has pegged the solution as an industry first for its ability to deliver virtual desktops as an outsourced service."
• VNUnet: US firm touts 'desktops-as-a-service': April 23, 2008 - "The Desktone Virtual-D Platform, unveiled this week, is designed specifically to enable service providers to offer hosted, subscription-based virtual desktops."
• Network Computing: Desktone, Verizon Announce Desktop Virtualization As A Service : April 22, 2008 - "Virtualization and software-as-a-service are two of the hottest trends in business technology. Why not marry the two?"
• Virtualization Journal: Virtualization Meets Desktop-as-a-Service: April 22, 2008 - "Desktone calls its scalable hosted subscription-based platform Virtual-D and expects to run $60-$80 a month per desktop."
• ZDNet 'Virtually Speaking' blog by Dan Kusnetzky: Desktone - Desktop in the cloud: April 22, 2008 - "...the company has a very impressive executive team...Desktone clearly understands what it takes to bring a new product to market."
• VMblog: Desktone Announces Industry’s First Solution that Delivers Virtual Desktops as an Outsourced Service: April 22, 2008
• Virtualization Journal: Desktone Releases Desktop Virtualization a Service Solution: April 21, 2008 - "Desktone Announces Solution that Delivers Virtual Desktops as an Outsourced Service Desktone Virtual-D Platform"
• Information Week: Desktone, Verizon Announce Desktop Virtualization As A Service: April 21, 2008 - "Desktone plans to sell 'desktops as a service' through service providers like Verizon Businesss and European and Asian carriers; IBM is a partner."
• Byte and Switch: Desktone Debuts Desktop-as-a-Service: April 21, 2008 - Desktop startup adds another acronym to the storage glossary
• Virtualization Review: Desktone Peels Back the Covers on Its DaaS Launch: April 21, 2008
• Virtual Strategy Review: Interview with Harry Ruda, Desktone CEO: April 21, 2008
• DABCC: Podcast – Desktone launches the Virtual-D Platform desktops as a service solution.: April 21, 2008 - Doug Brown from DABCC interviews Jeffrey Fisher from Desktone.
• Virtualization.info: Desktone leaves the stealth mode and launches a VDI solution for service providers: April 21, 2008 - "Desktone appoaches the VDI market in a new way."
• Infoweek: Red Hot Desktop Virtualization Market: April 8, 2008 - "According to Lambert, desktop virtualization has the potential to far outgrow the burgeoning server virtualization market."
• BusinessWeek: Company Profile Page: Profile of Desktone, its leaders and recent news and developments.
• CIO Magazine: The CIO Hall of Fame - 20 Leaders of Accomplishment: September 28, 2007 - Paul Gaffney, COO of Desktone, has been named to CIO Magazine's Hall of Fame.
• Byte and Switch: Top 10 Storage Startups to Watch: August 22, 2007 - "Clearly, something's drawing attention to Desktone. Specifically, it's the startup's approach of 'owning the whole problem' of implementing desktop virtualization, instead of solving just one aspect of it."
• Red Herring: PC Killer?: July 30, 2007 - "Desktone offers the IT managers of large corporations a respite from the complexities of managing thousands of networked PCs."
• Lowell Sun: Chelmsford startup gets $17 million in funding: August 1, 2007 - "Desktone has lined up $17 million in venture funding, a major boon for a company that has been in business for less than a year."
• Boston Globe: Desktone lands $17m in funding: July 30, 2007 - "Desktone is a provider of a unified virtual desktop platform."
• Mass High Tech: Desktone dealt $17M in first round: July 30, 2007 - "Desktone, founded in 2006, develops a unified virtual desktop platform."
• ZDNet Blog by Dana Gardner: 'Desktop as a service' coming soon to a PC near you: July 30, 2007 - "Desktone's management lineup boasts a collection of industry heavy hitters."
• American Venture Magazine: Desktone Secures $17 Million for Desktop Virtualization: July 30, 2007
• Boston Business Journal: Desktone rings up $17M in VC from local investors: July 27, 2007 - "[Desktone's] virtual desktop-technology seeks to boost efficiency and create an on-demand computing environment for Fortune 100 companies."
• The Deal: Desktone dials up $17M: July 27, 2007 - "Desktone Inc. raised a $17 million war chest...to build an early lead in the emerging market for delivering PC applications from a secure, centralized data center with complete transparency to end users."
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• Dow Jones VentureWire: Desktone Gets $17M to Virtualize Desktop: July 27, 2007 - "With a $17 million Series A round in hand, Desktone Inc. is aiming to bring virtual desktops to large enterprises." (Subscription required)