DesktopReady is a comprehensive Desktop-as-a-Service offering enabling flexible and scalable remote working environment by abstracting the process of building cloud desktops, simplifying adoption of cloud desktops for any type of user in your organization and eliminating any requirement of ongoing operations. This document describes the various services offered as part of DesktopReady.
Remote first enterprises are process oriented and tools are crucial part of the ecosystem. It is dependent on an integrated IT that is mobile, agile, and reliable. Every employee must have consistent desktop experience for the remote-first enterprise to operate efficiently. Success of a virtual desktop environment requires a complex set of skills that spans across desktops, networks, and applications. Small and midsize enterprises are looking for an all-in-one solution that can be run with lean or no IT.
DesktopReady is a fully managed Windows 10 based click to deploy virtual desktop that offers complete data security and significantly reduces the cost of hardware refresh. It allows you to choose between shared or dedicated session and takes away the pain of provisioning, application integration, configuration, and end to end management of the complete server to screen desktop environment.
The Service allows customers to purchase desktops on a monthly subscription. Desktops are offered in any volume allowing customers to scale up or scale down based on their business needs.
DesktopReady has two types of plans to cater to different customer needs.
Table 1: DesktopReady plans
Individual
Business
Ideal for up to 4 users
Ideal for teams of 5 or more
Multiple desktop options
Active Directory and File Server dedicated to your organization for enhanced security
Burstable CPU and RAM capacity
Broader range of supported use-cases
Bandwidth included
Multiple desktop options including Personal desktops
Standard set of applications
Bandwidth and backup included
Business hours support (8AM to 8PM ET)
Install custom applications
Migration service included
Admin portal to manage user assignments
Range of self-service options
Usage Analytics and Reports
End-point and peripheral assistance
24x7 Support
Each of these two plans have a selection of pooled and personal desktops. Based on the nature of business and compute requirements, customers can purchase desktops from the table listed below.
Table 2: Business plans
Additionally, Business customers can build their customizable desktops by choosing their compute requirements and options that closely matches their use-case.
Table 3: Individual plan
Pooled-Light
Pooled-Light
Pooled-Medium
Pooled-Heavy
Personal-Power
Personal-Multimedia
User profile
Ideal for task workers involving browser-based data entry and light applications such as Notepad, Calculator
Ideal for knowledge workers, browsing the internet and using Office applications such as Word, Excel
Ideal for developers, graphic designers accessing heavy applications like Zoom, WebEx and Teams
Ideal for content creators and intensive workloads like Zoom, WebEx and Teams
Ideal for graphic designers, 3D model makers, machine learning researchers using applications like Adobe Photoshop
Though there are a set of pre-built desktop models, DesktopReady also offers its customers to customize their desktops by picking and choosing the desktop compute and the type of disk they require. Please note this module is available for Business customers and for Personal desktops alone.
General purpose: Balanced CPU-to-memory ratio. Ideal for testing and development, small to medium databases and low to medium traffic web servers.
Burstable: Ideal for workloads that do not require the use of the full CPU all the time, but occasionally will need to burst to finish some tasks more quickly
Compute Optimized: High CPU-to-memory ratio. Good for medium traffic web servers, network appliances, batch processes and application servers
GPU: Specialized desktops powered by NVIDIA Tesla accelerated platform, targeted for heavy graphic rendering and video editing available.
Storage type: Customers can choose between “Standard HDD”, “Standard SSD” and “Premium SSD” to host the OS storage.
DesktopReady purchase wizard contains a pricing calculator for customers to choose their workload requirements and understand the cost for provisioning the workspace. This makes customer’s purchasing decisions a lot easier.
DesktopReady leverages Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) as the backend technology for its desktops. For business users, dedicated Active directory and File servers are provisioned to handle user management and data storage. End users can connect to their desktops either by using browser based thin client or the end-point native client.
Below images illustrates the infrastructure design of desktops provisioned to customers for Business and Individual plans.
Figure 1: Business plan design
Figure 2: Individual plan design
Customers are offered with different roles based on their entitlements to access different functionalities.
DesktopReady takes care of the infrastructure license management out of the box, allowing customers to purchase and start using the desktops right away, with flexibility to add additional end user licenses. DesktopReady allows you to access Windows 7 and Windows 10 with Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) if you have an eligible Microsoft license (Microsoft 365 F1/E3/E5/A3/A5/Business, Windows 10 Education/A3/A5, Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5), subject to change by Microsoft. For users accessing the desktops from Non-Windows Pro endpoints (like Android devices, Mac devices, iphones and chrome books), an optional Windows Virtual Desktop Access (VDA) license can be purchased with an additional cost. Customers have an option to add Microsoft 365 Apps during the desktop purchase workflow. However, for any custom applications, customers will have to work with DesktopReady support team.
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Standard image comes with a set of prebuilt applications and policies setup as per Anunta’s recommendations. Customers choosing individual plan cannot customize the policies.
Prebuilt applications includes Chrome, IE, Adobe reader, 7 zip, Microsoft Edge Browser, Zoom VDI, Libra or Open Office, Print to PDF, O365 package, Sticky notes and Microsoft Defender
Customers can work with support team to define the custom images and assign to desktops as per their need. Custom images can have additional applications bundled up.
DesktopReady allows its customers to customize their desktops to accommodate their business needs. For any special requests, customers can reach out to DesktopReady support either by clicking on “Don't see what you need - Contact us" link in the purchase portal or by directly sending an email to support-India@DesktopReady.com support@DesktopReady.com
Some of the common use-cases includes
DesktopReady offers a free trail option to its customers to try out the desktop experience. Customers can avail this by clicking on the “Free trial” button available on the website and filling in a questionnaire without any commitments or sharing credit card details. The scope of this trial is for 7 days to access a personal “Power” desktop.
All purchases done on DesktopReady is in prepaid mode on a month-by-month basis and invoicing of the orders will be done during the purchase workflow. Subscription will be on “Auto-renewal” of charges, an invoice copy of the billed orders will be emailed.
Moreover, the whole set of purchased inventory and due dates for the purchases can be viewed from the Admin portal.
Table 4: Support SLA
Your privacy is important to us. So, we've developed a Privacy Statement that covers how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your personal information.
This Privacy Statement applies to Anunta Desktop Inc., a Delaware corporation, and to any affiliated companies (together, “Anunta”), and to the websites available under the domain https://www.desktopready.com (together, the “Site”).
This Privacy Statement relates to Anunta and the use of Anunta services available through the Site only (the “Products”). This Privacy Statement does not apply to use of personal information in connection with employment.
In connection with providing support, our Products, and other services, Anunta processes certain data maintained in environments that Anunta may access to perform such services (your “Content”) on behalf of and at the direction of Anunta customers and partners. Our use of such Content and related log data is subject to the terms of our Anunta DesktopReady™ Terms of Service and is not governed by this Privacy Statement. In contrast, the information we collect through our customers' and partners' use of the Site (such as names, addresses, billing information and employee contact information) and through our offline interactions with customers and partners is subject to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
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Here are some examples of the types of personal information Anunta may collect and how we may use it:
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Some of the ways in which Anunta protects your personal information include:
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We use physical, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect your personal information consistent with ISO 27001:2013. However, despite these controls, we cannot completely ensure or warrant the security of your personal information.
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