In major DaaS news, IBM announced a deal this week to deliver virtual desktops as a service to more than 1,400 devices across 25 schools in Pike County, KY.  The solution is being powered by the Desktone Virtual-D Platform and will employ a cloud hosted architecture where the desktops will be running in an IBM data center.  The school district's primary interest is in being able to migrate all their users to a common desktop image while simultaneously repurposing their various generations of PCs (running different versions of Windows) as access devices.

This is a big step forward for the desktop hosting business that Desktone is helping to pioneer.  We believe that virtual desktops represent the next major hosting opportunity for service providers, building on the continued success of hosted web and email offerings.  We are excited to be a part of this innovative solution.