A company wants to allow employees to work from anywhere but still give IT staff centralized control over the users' desktop operating systems and applications. Management has decided that the desktops themselves should run in a cloud provider's data center rather than on local hardware. Which cloud solution would BEST meet this requirement?
A cloud-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure (sometimes delivered as Desktop as a Service) runs each user's desktop in virtual machines inside the provider's data center. Users connect over the internet from any device, while IT centrally patches, secures, and manages the images. On-premises VDI would keep the desktops in the organization's data center, which does not meet the requirement to use the provider's infrastructure. Hosting only a file server or an email SaaS solution does not deliver full desktop environments.
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