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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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