All about cloud desktop

1. By: Anubha Singh Gaur
 Mansi Singh

2. With a virtual desktop also called as
cloud desktop computing, the PC
doesn’t run its own applications; they
run on a server in a data center. And,
as virtualized servers move into the
cloud, the idea of using a virtual
desktop is gaining steam.

3. Concept of cloud desktop

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6. The term "cloud computing" is mostly
used to sell hosted services in the sense
of application service provisioning that
run client server software at a remote
location. End users access cloudbased applications through a web
browser, thin client or mobile app while
the business software and user's data are
stored on servers at a remote location

8. Cloud desktop provides access to a wide variety of applications through a
browser: native Web applications, free open source applications and traditional
desktop software.
Cloud desktop also provides the end-user with a file manager that gives access to
multiple storage back-ends At the same time, the cloud desktop application backend infrastructure, integrates with the locally deployed storage solution .
Cloud desktop can integrate with app stores through a well-defined API used for
the provisioning of new applications
Cloud desktop allows to flexibly on-board new applications, that is it provides
the capability to extend the application catalogue with new applications.

9. Cloud desktop multimedia delivery architecture

10. The Cloud Desktop solution is based on HTML5 and Websockets
technology.
Applications that run in the Cloud Desktop are either native Javascript
applications which run on the client side and Webapp server back-end, or
Windows /and or Linux based applications that run on application servers
in the back-end.
The latter applications are streamed towards a broker and then tunnelled
over Web sockets to the end clients(via the web server).
Cloud desktop encapsulates different storage back-ends, making it
transparent to the end user where files actually reside. Files of the end-user
can either be in Awingu’s Private Storage cloud, Dropbox, Amazon S3 or a
local file system.
The cloud desktop comes with a file manager that provides the same
representation of the files and directories in the cloud desktop,
independent of the actual storage back-end.
The interaction between applications and the local storage back-end is
mediated through the same file manager back-end.

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Cloud Desktop is a central, consistent platform for managing
multiple locations and supporting a mobile workforce. It also
provides the availability, scalability, security, redundancy and
end-user support required for success in today’s competitive
business climate
The cloud desktop is a future proof solution addressing the
needs of today and tomorrow’s users. It provides a more secure
infrastructure than an on site desktop deployment.
The cost structure of cloud desktop is so different, it also allows
operators to come to market with a disorderly pricing model
with various cloud desktop systems offerings in a tiered pricing
structure.

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