What is DaaS?

Welcome to TheDaaSGuy Blog!

As our first post, it probably makes sense to begin at the beginning. If you’ve already read the About section, you already know who I am, so let’s dig right into the heart of what this site and this blog are about - Desktop as a Service.

Now, you might be thinking, but TDG, I already know all there is to know about DaaS - that’s how I found my way here in the first place. If that’s the case, awesome!

…but for those of you who may not be familiar, the idea of Desktop as a Service is to provide a hosted virtual desktop, a combination of an Operating System like Windows, along with resources like CPU, Memory, and Disk, and instead of having those things run on a piece of physical hardware like a laptop or desktop, having them run like a piece of software that is hosted in the Cloud.

This, then, begs the question: What is the Cloud??

To dramatically oversimplify, just think of ‘the Cloud’ as meaning that it is running in a datacenter somewhere else that you access across the internet.

“So you’re telling me all DaaS is, then, is just another version of my laptop or desktop that lives on the internet?”

Yes… and no… because, to me, that is where the DaaS story gets interesting!

At it’s core, yes - DaaS is just like your laptop or desktop but running in a datacenter, but because it is running in a datacenter, there are a lot of really unique benefits that DaaS can provide. So many unique benefits, in fact, that I have created this website, blog, a social media persona, and a rewarding IT career in extolling them. For however long TheDaaSGuy is around, we’ll explore the depth and breadth of the variety of ways that a Cloud-hosted desktop solution can help Users, can help IT Departments, and can help Companies - everything from security to cost management to disaster recovery, but at this early stage, if we had to boil it all down to one word that best covers all of the benfits that DaaS can provide, let’s think of the word: Control.

DaaS provides a controlled environment where you can do all of the things that you would normally do on your laptop or desktop, but do them in a more supportable, more auditable, more structured, and more controlled way.

So DaaS isn’t just about running a Desktop somewhere else… no, no, no… it is about so much more. There’s a lot that DaaS does!