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IBM has announced general availability of its Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering in Europe. DaaS delivers virtual desktop images to end-user desktops as a subscription service. Target markets are financial services, education and businesses with multiple distributed branch offices. DaaS suits customers that want to minimise the cost and disruption of managing desktops, but fares less well where compliance and service levels are of paramount importance to enterprise or public sector customers.

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Yesterday, Desktone and NetApp issued a joint press release highlighting the integration of Desktone’s Virtual-D platform with NetApp’s ONTAP operating system.  You can find the release on the Desktone site here and on the NetApp site here.

Last week, Desktone announced its partnership with CloudGroup BV to build a network of world-class European desktops as a service^® providers.  You can read more here.

For those of you who missed it, IBM annouced their DaaS offering, dubbed IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud on the IBM Cloud, yesterday at VMworld.  You can find the official release here.

Desktone recently announced its expansion into Europe with its first DaaS provider in the region - SCC (part of the SCH Group). You can find the release here.