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Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers

Desktop as a Service

What is Desktop as a Service Providers?

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud offering where a desktop environment is offered by a hosted service, provided through virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provisioning.

Common Features

  • Desktop Management
  • Device Support
  • Desktop Environment
  • Secure Connectivity
  • Multi Tenant Architecture
  • Outsourced Backend Administration
  • Bulk Patching and Updates
  • Billing Optimization and Management
  • Delivery Optimization
  • Integration with ITSM and ITAM Tools
  • Integration with Endpoint Management Tools
  • Integration with Security Management Tools
  • Integration with Event Monitoring Services
  • Per Unit Time Pricing

Top Desktop as a Service (DaaS) Providers

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Products: 6
Next Award: Oct 2025

Top Desktop as a Service Providers 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

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VMware, Inc.

VMware Horizon

Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

The VMware Horizon DaaS Platform is the only virtual desktop platform built from the ground up for cloud delivery. Now VMware enables service providers to offer Windows desktops a in a truly scalable cloud-based architecture.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
  • Saves Time
  • Client Friendly Policies
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Composite Score
8.2 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure cloud desktop service. Amazon WorkSpaces can provision either Windows or Linux desktops in just a few minutes and quickly scale to provide thousands of desktops to workers across the globe. Amazon WorkSpaces helps eliminate the complexity in managing hardware inventory, OS versions and patches, and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which helps simplify your desktop delivery strategy.

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Pros

  • Inspires Innovation
  • Caring
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
Badge Winner
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Microsoft Corporation

Azure Virtual Desktop

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Effective Service
  • Acts with Integrity
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Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Cloudalize’s GPU-powered virtual desktops bring instant flexibility, mobility, speed of execution and ease of use to engineers, designers, architects, gamers and other computing-heavy users thanks to its Desktop-as-a-Service Platform MyGDaaS. Cloudalize creates vast new markets and a valuable distribution channel for GPU-intensive applications by turning any browser-enabled and internet-connected device into a powerful graphics workstation.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Fair
  • Acts with Integrity
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Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

Create the most empowering employee experience possible. Across every device. On any network. Employees get the same secure, virtual experience across operating systems. You manage it all in a single console.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
  • Altruistic
Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Desktop as a Service (DaaS) frees businesses from the endless cycle of purchasing, supporting, upgrading and ultimately replacing local PCs by providing an untethered “virtual” workspace that can be accessed from anywhere, at any time, on nearly any device. Moreover, customers and end users can control their DaaS environment via a self-service web portal.

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Pros

  • Acts with Integrity
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Friendly Negotiation

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Ericom Software Ltd

Ericom Desktop (DaaS)

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Ericom Desktop provides an intuitive web management interface for easier desktop selection and provisioning, together with all the advantages of AWS, including security, high availability, and performance.

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Enable a highly scalable, remote workforce with managed virtual desktop services to run your desktops and applications in the cloud. Give your employees access to virtual desktops from home or while traveling, on any device connected to the internet, with tailored services that are designed, optimized, deployed and managed by our team of experts.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
GridWay Computing Corporation

GridWay Desktop as a Service

Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

GridWay can deliver desktops as a service to end users from our data centre with levels of availability and reliability unmatched by traditional PCs. Users can access their personal desktop from any device, at anytime, from anywhere, giving them more flexibility and enabling greater mobility. Centralizing the management of desktops as well as the user applications, increases control over access to data and enables better endpoint security.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Netgain Technology LLC

Netgain Desktop as a Service

Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

A key component of your cloud strategy is your desktops. In the past, setting up a working network required purchasing tens, hundreds or even thousands of computer terminals and then installing a desktop to each machine. It became extremely cost and labor intensive, especially when it came to supporting and fixing any of those desktops. Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) significantly reduces the number of devices and complexity of device networking.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing