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I'll add Amazon since we can use Microsoft licenses now ...

It is funny - I have been pondering this as a potential project but it's just such a moving target it would require non-stop effort to maintain.

Here's the answer you've been looking for......it depends. They're radically different in many ways and depends on the problem you are trying to solve, which vendor you want to work with, etc, etc.

It's like many techs, it always evolves and every year there is a refresh of a the article that compare products. It is doable and the one that will have a good article will drive traffic :) It depends as always but it is good to be able to compare products so you can select the one depending of your needs. If you want the best cost efficient and simple solution for less than 500 users, which one would you go now? I don't know.

@jvitech and AppStream 2.0 of course offers options to deliver many apps

What I always advise here is that if cost is your primary driver, you will lose no matter what. Define your use case, remote access requirements, resource needs, data portability (like profiles, etc), Hosting requirements (self hosted, cloud, etc) and who will support it. Once you have that you can make a decision. The solutions are simply not comparable 1:1.

are you wanting to run all of them in Azure and you’re only interested in different feature sets or what?

I am looking for a feature-set comparison. basically to advise our customers on which vendor/solution might fit their need the best.

Are they running windows desktops with most folks using Office 365 type stuff?

this is a general request to train our sales team on different VDI solutions not for a specific customer.

Maybe this might help - it's more a list of pros (I suspect listing cons got controversial and not really our place) but might help guide a conversation: https://www.eginnovations.com/blog/best-virtual-desktop-infrastructure/ it would be interesting to hear if people agree...

well, it would be awesome if Parallels would be covered too 🙂

We also did a survey - it's a couple of years old now but some of the data might give a feel for what size of customer uses various things

@Rachel Berry thank you very much

I would say you need to look from a higher point of view. Those desktops needs to be accessed as well and thus endpoints come into play. Suddenly you are looking at UEM/MAM and have to wonder if you want to stitch solutions together or have one vendor. make sure all your endpoints can be managed and protected.. not just a part of them.. (mind you, I work for VMware... just, so you know) but back to VDI/DaaS... most important is the Day2,3...100 functionality a solution has. Topics I would focus on are: 1. Profile management (besides dumping it with fslogix) 2. Image management (fewer images is better) 3. App deployment (on-demand instead of hug images or at-logon) 4. User environment management (GPO's are of the 90s) on-demand, context-based personalized desktops. 5. security and compliance (keylogger, watermarking, screen scraping, quarantine, endpoint protection, network segmentation) 6. Hybrid deployment for when the shit hits the fan (Azure/AWS-only is not going to work) ...again, I work for VMware so, yes a bit biased of course.. happy to go into details about Horizon if you like but just wanted to give some day 2 thoughts for you (been in the field for ages myself)