Evolve IP®, The Cloud Strategy Company™, announced that it has been included in the June 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). The Market Guide, which includes 10 DaaS providers around the world1 including Evolve IP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Citrix and VMware, provides insight and coverage into the service scope of the DaaS market.

According to the report, “Gartner has seen traction increase in midsize enterprises (100 to 1,000 employees), with increasing average user commitments.” The guide also states that “compliance coverage varies between providers and is an important differentiator,” noting standards such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA; including Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health [HITECH]), International Organization for Standardization (ISO; including 9001 and 27001) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Evolve IP is a pioneer of virtual desktops and DaaS having more than a decade of experience delivering reliable, compliant, and long-standing solutions. In fact, the company’s first virtual desktop client is still on the platform today. An integrated part of its broad portfolio of best-of-breed cloud services, Evolve IP DaaS delivers an “always on – always there” personal desktop, completely inclusive of an associate’s unique applications and files, that can be accessed using virtually any internet-enabled device.

Evolve IP’s DaaS solution, taking full advantage of the Evolve IP Compliance Cloud™, provides cross-organizational benefits:

• For IT, DaaS makes it easy to integrate, manage, protect and update all of an associate’s devices and applications.
• For associates, DaaS drives significant productivity gains making working anywhere / anytime a real, effective option, and opening up Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) possibilities.
• For the C-Suite, finances become more predictable while PC refresh costs decline and compliance adherence is maintained.

“The 2018 Gartner Market Guide for Desktop as a Service notes that DaaS has gained traction with midsized and enterprise firms and we can confirm that our solution is seeing greater adoption in that segment; particularly with firms needing compliant solutions,” said Evolve IP’s Chief Technology and Product Officer and Founding Partner, Scott Kinka. “Most often these firms are looking to improve associate productivity, to support temporary and seasonal workers or to ensure disaster recovery at the desktop level.”

One of the world’s fastest growing Cloud strategy companies, today Evolve IP provides best-of-breed Cloud solutions to more than 1,900 enterprises and to more than 420,000 users in virtually every industry. Many of the world’s most recognizable brands rely on the company’s Evolve IP OneCloud™ strategy to migrate multiple integrated Cloud computing and Cloud communications services onto a single, unified platform including: contact centers, IP phone systems / unified communications and collaboration, identity management, disaster recovery, virtual desktops, IaaS, and more. Evolve IP’s Compliance Cloud™ provides assurances and dedicated expertise for organizations in: healthcare, finance, hospitality, automotive, insurance, veterinary, legal, technology, retail and, construction verticals.

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1 All vendors included: Amazon Web Services, Citrix, Cloudalize, dinCloud, Dizzion, Evolve IP, MTM Technologies, OVH, Paperspace, VMware