Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for Education
Fully Managed Cloud Desktops—Designed for Simplicity, Performance, and Low Cost
Gartner
2024 DaaS Magic Quadrant
2.5M Desktops
Fully Managed DaaS for Complete Peace of Mind
Full-Service Infrastructure Operations & Cost Optimization
Apporto fully manages your cloud infrastructure—including compute, storage, and network components—eliminating hardware delays and administrative complexity. We continuously review and optimize resource allocation, ensuring efficiency and predictable budgeting aligned with your operational needs.
Proactive Security & Compliance Management
Benefit from robust, built-in Zero Trust security protocols, including comprehensive antivirus management and proactive Windows patching. Apporto’s security-first approach ensures continual compliance, mitigates cyber risks, and safeguards your data effortlessly.
Optimized Desktop Deployment & Configuration
Apporto customizes and optimizes virtual desktops specifically for your organizational needs, ensuring rapid deployment, streamlined configurations, and ongoing enhancements aligned with best practices and scalability demands.
Expert End-User Support & Seamless Experiences
Our dedicated support team provides responsive, around-the-clock technical assistance, swiftly resolving user issues. Apporto continuously monitors endpoint performance, guaranteeing reliable, interruption-free productivity for your workforce.
Advanced Monitoring & Real-Time Analytics
Gain complete visibility into your virtual desktop environment through real-time monitoring and insightful analytics. Apporto quickly identifies and addresses performance issues before users notice, ensuring a consistently high-quality desktop experience.
AI-Powered Virtual IT Assistance (Portia)
Portia, Apporto’s AI-enhanced virtual assistant, handles common user questions through natural-language interaction directly within the desktop environment. This significantly reduces IT helpdesk calls, empowering employees to resolve issues instantly, keeping your IT team focused on higher-value activities.
Meet Portia:
Your AI-Powered IT Support Superhero
- Instant, Natural-Language Support: Students and faculty quickly resolve common desktop issues through intuitive, AI-powered conversations, eliminating frustration and drastically cutting down helpdesk requests.
- Real-Time Diagnostics & Self-Service: Portia proactively identifies and fixes desktop performance problems using real-time analytics, empowering users to solve issues on-the-spot.
- Reduced IT Workload: Automated, context-aware support directly within the virtual desktop frees your IT staff to concentrate on higher-value strategic campus technology initiatives rather than routine troubleshooting.
The Only Virtual Desktop Built for Education
Interactive Virtual Classrooms
Enable dynamic, engaging learning with advanced virtual classroom tools like live screen monitoring, hand-raising notifications, and real-time collaboration.
Easy LMS Integration
Simplify course management with effortless integration into leading LMS platforms including Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, and Moodle.
GPU-Powered Desktops
Learner Analytics
Why Fully Managed Matters
DaaS:
While many cloud desktop solutions, such as Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), offer cloud-based virtualization, not all solutions are created equal. AVD, while cloud-based, is not a fully managed service. Organizations adopting AVD often face hidden complexities and additional costs, including:
- Technical Expertise Required: AVD implementations typically necessitate deep Azure-specific knowledge, creating additional burden on IT teams. The administrative complexity can significantly increase costs and staffing requirements.
- Additional Management Layers (e.g., Nerdio): Solutions like Nerdio are frequently layered on top of AVD to simplify management. While helpful, these third-party tools substantially increase subscription costs and add layers of complexity that dilute the financial advantage of moving to the cloud.
- Higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO): Due to the combined cost of Azure infrastructure, third-party management tools, and required additional staffing or external support, the TCO for AVD often closely resembles or even exceeds traditional VDI solutions.
Fully Managed DaaS:
Apporto’s fully managed DaaS platform, by contrast, eliminates these hidden complexities:
- Complete Management: Apporto handles all infrastructure, software, security, and operational management, significantly reducing your IT overhead.
- No Hidden Costs: Transparent, predictable pricing means no additional third-party subscriptions or unforeseen expenses.
- Simplified Implementation: No Azure-specific certifications or deep expertise required—your team can focus on strategic tasks rather than infrastructure management.
- Predictably Lower TCO: Achieve up to 65% TCO savings compared to traditional VDI and significant savings over partially managed solutions like AVD plus Nerdio.
- 24×7 Monitoring and Support: Continuous system monitoring and dedicated support available around the clock, ensuring reliability and rapid resolution of issues.
Bottom Line: Fully managed DaaS from Apporto delivers genuine simplicity, lower costs, and reduced complexity, unlike alternatives such as AVD.
Fully Managed DaaS:
Enjoy complete peace of mind knowing that Apporto’s fully managed DaaS includes the following:
Infrastructure & Operations Management
- Resource Allocation and Cost Optimization
- Infrastructure and Cloud Operations
- Deployment and Scaling Flexibility
- Proactive Windows and Application Patching
- End-to-End Technical Administration Support
Security & Compliance
- Security and Compliance Management
- Antivirus and Threat Management
- Automated Backups and Disaster Recovery
- Enhanced Monitoring and Advanced Analytics
- Endpoint and User Experience Monitoring
- AI-Powered Virtual Support: Meet Portia
Key Features
Browser-Based Secure Access
Dynamic Cloud Bursting
Real-Time Collaboration Suite
Integrated Cloud Storage
Seamless connectivity to OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box for effortless file management.
Intelligent Analytics
Exceptional User Experience
Deliver consistently responsive desktops at 4K resolution (60fps), eliminating frustrating lag and downtime typically associated with legacy VDI solutions.
Enterprise-Grade Security
Built-in Zero Trust architecture, multi-factor authentication, and role-based access controls protect your critical business data seamlessly and effectively.
Predictable, Transparent Pricing
Simple, clear pricing without hidden fees, significantly reducing your total cost of ownership and simplifying budget planning.
The next generation DaaS is here
Introducing Apporto NextGen. Stay on-prem, move to the cloud, or both. Always a great user experience and low cost. Apporto makes DaaS simple.
NextGen Flexible Architecture
Built on advanced Kubernetes technology, Apporto’s NextGen architecture offers exceptional flexibility, scalability, and simplified management that aligns perfectly with your IT strategy:
Cloud Deployment
Fully managed cloud-native desktops providing rapid scalability, simplified infrastructure management, and reduced overhead.
Hybrid Model
Easily complement your existing infrastructure with cloud bursting—ideal for temporary staff, remote offices, and peak workload demands.
On-Premises Option
Optimize your existing hardware investments with browser-based desktop access and streamlined, centralized management.
Ready to Simplify Your Desktop Infrastructure?
Discover how Apporto’s fully managed DaaS solution can streamline your IT management, enhance workforce productivity, and significantly reduce operational costs.