- DAAs could be more efficient than laptops for 95% of workers in 2027
- Hosted machines are twice as popular as they were in 2019
- DAAS expenses could grow to $ 6 billion. In 2029
New Gartner Research has suggested hosted PCs, also known as Desktop-As-A-Service (DAAS), is now cheaper to operate than on-Prem Business laptops.
By 2027, Gartner expects DAAS to be cost -effective for about 95% of the workforce, up from 40% in 2019, with more users set to use hosted machines as their most important work area as a result (20% compared to 10% in 2019).
For the time being, however, most organizations only insert DAAs to a minority of employees to help ensure remote work. But a growing emphasis on costs, operational efficiency and sustainability can change this.
More companies are considering DAAs
Gartner predicts that DAA’s expenses of growing from $ 4.3 billion in 2025 to $ 6.0 billion in 2029 thanks to the fact that total ownership costs have now fallen under laptops in many application cases, especially with thin clients.
“DAAS Solutions gives external workers, offshore workers, third-party employees, contractors, frontline workers and office workers access to virtual desktops hosting the cloud,” Gartner explained.
Microsoft was judged as top manager with strengths at digital workplace, cloud and AI, and products including Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 and Microsoft Dev Box.
For especially Microsoft, Gartner estimates that 60% of his DAAS clients belong to medium-sized organizations (100-4,999 employees), where larger companies (5,000+ employees) account for 30% and only 10% come from smaller ORGs (up to 99 employees).
“Gartner rarely speaks to an organization that plans to implement a new local VDI solution. Net-new implementations use almost exclusively DAAs, and the local implementations are either migrating to DAAs or moving to a Sky Control Plan, except for a couple of land-locked use cases,” the company concluded.
As we look ahead, companies are now investigating cost -effectiveness benefits at DAAs with scaling options that further enhance the potential savings.
However, as a relatively small part of the overall PC market, which is in its early stages of limited regulation, some questions about supplier-in and license are raised to complexity, which means that the early adopters could have to put up headaches until regulators weigh in.
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