Desktone, Inc. announced it has extended its cloud-hosted desktop platform with a new on-premises, cloud-managed virtual desktop solution. The new offering resides at the customer site and is managed remotely by a Cloud Provider, giving enterprises and SMBs the flexibility to choose the cloud model that best suits their business: public, private, or hybrid. Now, Desktone provides the ultimate flexibility by offering different desktop options, including Microsoft RDS, VDI, and Remote Apps, across public private and hybrid cloud environments--eliminating the barriers associated with traditional VDI deployments. The new on-premises offerings include both enterprise and SMB/Branch Office configurations: Enterprise customers can leverage existing private cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) environments or use the Desktone blueprint, which includes a choice of server hardware, storage, and desktop virtualization software. SMBs and branch office deployments can deploy a pre-configured, all-in-one virtual desktop appliance, which includes GreenByte's vIO virtual storage, as well as compute and desktop virtualization software. Leading cloud providers, such as Dell, Fujitsu, Time Warner Cable, Marubeni, Kumo and Dimension Data, have selected Desktone's Platform to offer hosted desktops and apps as a cloud service due to unique cloud features that enable them to deliver the easiest-to-deploy and lowest-cost virtual desktops in the market.

Xtium, Inc. and Desktone, Inc. have partnered to offer cloud-hosted virtual desktops. Xtium will leverage the Desktone platform to provide full-featured virtual desktops in a production hosting and disaster recovery service offering, available to run on any device.

Equinix, Inc. announced that it has partnered with Desktone, Inc. enabling service providers to deliver a new scalable and profitable cloud services revenue stream via Platform Equinix(TM) . By leveraging Desktone software and locating infrastructure in Equinix's highly reliable, network-rich data centers, service providers will be able to quickly provide customers DaaS capabilities, while limiting downtime and geographic-induced latency to improve the end users' desktop experience.