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As one of the first and largest providers of Desktop as a Service (DaaS), Quest brings a deep understanding to assist you with your desktop and application needs. Quest DaaS offers the benefits of virtual desktops — simplified deployment, improved data security, and centralized management — without the exorbitant capital costs and unending management hassles.

Quest can deliver cloud-hosted virtual desktops and applications to any device, from either your site or our global Service Delivery Centers and in many deployment models, including private, public or hybrid.

What is DaaS?

With Quest’s Cisco Powered DaaS, you eliminate the hassles of providing virtualized computing. Our DaaS offering allows enterprises to rapidly deploy desktops and applications on virtually any device-all with the software, storage and access that you specify. Get a better understanding of the Quest DaaS solution offering by accessing the resources below.

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IDC Research: Why DaaS makes sense for managing your mobile workforce.

Video: Cisco Powered Cloud Services & DaaS

Tim Burke, Quest president & CEO discusses how businesses of all sizes now have access to enterprise-class IT capabilities via cloud services.

What is DaaS?

Video: Desktops as a Service

Overview of Desktops as a Service provided by Quest and Desktone.

Desktops as a Service

Learn about the benefits of Quest's Desktops as a service. Benefits include simplified deployment, improved data security, and centralized management.

Mythbusting DaaS

This paper exposes—and debunks—the top 10 DaaS myths, which range from supposed cost, user experience and security issues, to ease of use, licensing and integration limitations.

Embracing BYOD with XenDesktop

The lack of a structured approach to BYOD leaves organizations exposed to security gaps, compliance issues and rising IT complexity. Learn how to embrace BYOD for laptops and tablets you don't own.

Desktops in the Cloud

Learn how to gain all the benefits of VDI without the deep investment in hardware capital and technical expertise, and enjoy carrier-class SLAs in your business.

The Business Case for DaaS

Cisco Powered Desktop as a Service Solution

Organizations are moving to desktop virtualization to address the challenges and \opportunities of the evolving workplace. Learn more.

Hosted Desktops Simplify SMB IT

A hosted desktop unchains the desktop from the device and puts it in a secure data center where it can be delivered to any device, anytime. And that can make some big differences.

Comparing the TCO of Physical PCs, VDI, and Cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service (DaaS)

This white paper will compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of physical PCs, virtual desktops, and cloud-hosted desktops as a service (DaaS).

The Smart Disaster Recovery Strategy for Desktops

A whitepaper that illustrates the trend to DaaS for an affordable and easy way to ensure worker productivity and business continuity, whenever or wherever disaster strikes.

Top 5 Reasons to Workshift

Workshifting is a strategy based on getting work done in the right place by the right people at the right time. Learn more by downloading here.

Why Virtualized Desktops Make Plenty of $ense

No doubt about it: Virtualization has come to end-user computing — and benefitting from this new way to deploy workers' desktop environments has never been easier. Read more here.

Cloud Service Brief

Learn how Netapp's utilization of Quest’s virtual desktop services to replace our costly thin client environment has meant better performance for our end users, as well as ease of management for the IT team.

A Desktop on the Go

See why lender, JMAC Lending, chose Quest DaaS.

Video: Quest Manages End User Cloud Services Using Citrix and Cisco Solutions

Adam Burke, Director of Partner Development at Quest, explains why Citrix solutions help develop solutions for end user customers across the workspace stack for desktops, applications, security, disaster recovery, remote workforce, and BYOD.

Go Beyond the Desktop with Quest Cisco Powered IaaS & DRaaS

Quest's services extend well beyond the desktop. We bring you world class support from Disaster Recovery to the complete IT infrastructure and more. Access the resources below to get a 360 degree view on how Quest can help.

The Impact of Cloud on IT Consumption Models

What will IT organizations fundamentally look like in three years? And what must IT leaders do to ensure their continued relevance to the business? Read this paper to find out.

IaaS Overview

Learn how Quest unites computing, networking, storage and management into an intelligent, fabric-based infrastructure able to automate deployment and management across physical and virtual resources.

Cisco's DRaaS

DRaaS architecture described in this document is designed to provide a new set of related capabilities allowing Virtualized Multiservice Data Center (VMDC)-based Cloud Service Provider (CSPs) to enhance their addressable market financial performance, and differentiation vs. commodity cloud solutions.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) Overview

Learn how Quest can help protect, recover and set protection policies for your applications that meet your business objectives.

QuestFlex®

Learn how QuestFlex® enables you to specify your own network requirements, ranging from virtualization, storage, servers, network equipment, and VoIP to enable your enterprise.

Service Delivery Centers

Full details on how Quest’s Service Delivery Centers provide an alternative to the limitations of traditional IT architectures.
The virtual machines, storage systems, and networks that run our Service Delivery Centers are always securely isolated and segmented.

Virtualization Assessment

Learn how virtualization helps to lower the costs of your IT requirements and support.

Cisco Powered Cloud: A View from the Front Lines of Delivering Customer Value

Learn about the value of Cisco Powered cloud services to end-customer businesses through the lens of 20 Cisco cloud partners. These partners are a highly qualified group of companies that play multiple roles in the delivery of cloud services to their customers.

Quest's CloudScape

As assessment on Quest’s CloudScape – a cloud readiness assessment and a road map to help you prepare for public/private cloud and data center migrations.

Disaster Recovery for the Day

Learn how Quest's DR experts can help you develop a disaster recovery testing plan to be prepared for the process of returning to normal operations following data loss.

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Quest Virtualization Assessment and VDI

A brief video on why countless organizations are moving away from traditional desktops to virtualized environments. And many of them are counting on Quest to take them there.

Cisco Powered Promotional Video

More and more applications and services are moving to the Cloud. Find out why Cisco is your best choice.

Case Study: IT Services Firm Goes Global

Quest has discovered that Cisco Powered DaaS is serving as a way to gain access into new areas of its customers’ businesses where it previously did not have a strong presence. Learn why!

Power Behind the Cloud

An infographic that shows how Cisco Powered Cloud Services elevate your business

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