![]() ![]() Windows 365: Today, Microsoft unveiled Windows 365 ( read the announcement here), which is ushering in the next wave of digital workspace innovation.Today, we are pleased to announce that NetApp is collaborating with Microsoft to deliver new, complementary innovations designed to meet the needs of the modern elastic workforce and their digital workspaces: At NetApp, we see this driving increased demand for a fully managed approach to supporting desktop environments that includes VDI, cloud, storage, real time monitoring, compute provisioning, and enhanced information security, all delivered as a service and continuously optimized for cost. ![]() It’s no surprise that these same enterprises consistently cited information security and the need to increase collaboration while lowering IT support costs as the key factors in their decision to move to cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The clouds enable these workspaces to scale up and down at runtime matching the supply to the demand more efficiently than on premises.Ī recent study conducted by industry research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)1 found that 92% of enterprises surveyed expect 50% or more of their workforce will utilize virtual, hosted desktops by 2024. Digital workspaces are now the norm, and the challenge and promise of a new hybrid workplace and elastic workforce is before us.Īt NetApp, our customers are increasingly moving their desktop environments from traditional on-premises infrastructures to cloud-based virtual desktops that enable employees to securely access applications, data, and resources from anywhere. Work from the office went to work from home and now work from anywhere. These transformations fundamentally affect a company’s relationship with its customers, partners, and its employees. Digital transformations projects scheduled for two years are now being done today in 2 months. ![]() In January 2016, WorkSpaces added support for audio in (enabling headset use) and high-DPI screens.The massive technology disruption caused by the global pandemic in the past year has fundamentally shifted how businesses are delivering IT services to their employees and accelerated the public cloud as the platform for digital transformation.Optional encryption of WorkSpaces storage volumes was added in October 2015.CloudWatch, a service for monitoring AWS servers and setting up alerts, got WorkSpaces support in July 2015.Amazon exposed a public API for WorkSpaces in April 2015, for programmatic management.Europe did not get WAM until December 2015. The full WAM costs an additional $5.00 per month. In April 2015, the AWS Marketplace for Desktop Apps opened, together with WorkSpaces Application Manager (WAM), offering virtualized applications that can be purchased on a monthly basis and deployed to WorkSpaces.This enables use of WorkSpaces from lightweight thin client devices such as those from HP or Dell/Wyse. Support for Teradici's PCoIP zero clients was added in October 2014.In August 2014, Amazon introduced multi-factor authentication.In May 2014, WorkSpaces launched in Europe, giving better performance for European users.Over the two years since WorkSpaces launched, Amazon has added several features, notably: WorkDocs, once called Zocalo, is a document storage and collaboration service. There is also a WorkDocs Sync client which lets the user synchronize documents across two or more computers, including their WorkSpace. You can integrate with on-premises Active Directory via Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud combined with a VPN connection. WorkSpaces ties in with several other AWS services. In order to bring your own license, you need a Microsoft Volume Licensing agreement with Software Assurance. Windows 7 is only available on Microsoft's own Azure cloud for test and development. This is for licensing reasons, since Microsoft has stringent limitations around the use of Windows 7 in a virtual environment. ![]() Unless you bring your own license and create your own operating system image, a WorkSpace is Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Windows Desktop Experience. Standard Windows RDP clients are not supported. There are clients for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and Chromebook other operating systems such as Windows Phone and Linux are not supported. In addition, you can pay $15.00 extra per month for Microsoft Office Professional, or you can save $4.00 if you bring your own Windows 7 desktop license. There are three specification levels: Specification WorkSpaces provides a Windows desktop on Amazon's cloud. It is time for another hands-on, but first a quick recap. "Don't dive in: it will get better," was my conclusion. We took an early look, but encountered several niggling problems. Amazon Web Services (AWS) released WorkSpaces, Windows desktop-as-a-service, towards the end of March 2014. ![]()
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