Looking for a VDI or Application hosting service

[Xellpnz]

Afternoon all,

 

Just a quick rundown, we are a windows domain going Chromebooks for everyone - we want to be able to run legacy applications (SIM's being the big bugbear)

 

Having alook around at VDI and application hosters on the cloud, any reconmendations? Is a VDI better than hosting pure apps? Any suggestions and ideas, and company names the better!

 

Cheers =)

[FishCustard]

No idea about VDI hosts, but remember that you'll also need to host a SIMS server somewhere.

[Xellpnz]

No idea about VDI hosts, but remember that you'll also need to host a SIMS server somewhere.

 

Aye, looking at hosting that offsite or redirect the clients to a server in house.

[dhicks]

Just a quick rundown, we are a windows domain going Chromebooks for everyone - we want to be able to run legacy applications (SIM's being the big bugbear)

 

We have similar requirements - aiming to move most work to web-based interfaces, we could do with a way to host various Windows-based applications so that a user can use them from an individual browser tab, preferably complete with GSuite / O365 authentication integration. Before I look at setting up our own infrastucture, I was wondering if there's a service that already does this - sets up an application in a suitible desktop environment on a VM somewhere, then gives the user some kind of web-based view of that application's user interface. Is this the kind of thing that App-V provides? I've had a look at Apache Guacamole, for which I can possibly write a user interface that includes authentication integration, but it'd be handy if there was a service that already had this sorted for an easy monthly fee.

[Xellpnz]

We have similar requirements - aiming to move most work to web-based interfaces, we could do with a way to host various Windows-based applications so that a user can use them from an individual browser tab, preferably complete with GSuite / O365 authentication integration. Before I look at setting up our own infrastucture, I was wondering if there's a service that already does this - sets up an application in a suitible desktop environment on a VM somewhere, then gives the user some kind of web-based view of that application's user interface. Is this the kind of thing that App-V provides? I've had a look at Apache Guacamole, for which I can possibly write a user interface that includes authentication integration, but it'd be handy if there was a service that already had this sorted for an easy monthly fee.

 

Check out;

 

Cameyo

Itopia

Vmware Airwatch - (need a parter to supply)

 

All 3 have great SaaS Deployment - for example cameyo allows you to create weblinks to applications, and just add them via GSuite to what ever users bookmarks, and bam, they can access it using the Google Gsuite Authication, or Azure AD Systems. Itopia and Vmware have something alike, included the intergrated one sign on system.

 

Give them a shout, VMWare was damn impressive and even came out to see our networks and how we are going to handle all the networking!

[dhicks]

Cameyo

Itopia

Vmware Airwatch - (need a parter to supply)

 

Many thanks - Cameyo looks like a good place to start, around £10,000 for 80 users per year for the fully hosted version. I suspect it might be cheaper to host our own solution, but it would save us having to upgrade or maintain any on-site hardware.

[Xellpnz]

Issue is that they make it a darn slight easier to host and manage than doing it yourself.

Been playing around with Azure and doing remote apps, costing nearly the same for hosting to be fair!

 

Cameyo also have huge discounts for EDU and more users you have, so might tend up being cheaper than that!