How Is Nutanix Xi Frame Different from Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft and Vmware Daas Solutions?

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WHITE PAPER How is Nutanix Xi Frame different from Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware DaaS solutions?

1. END-USER COMPUTING STRATEGY...... 3

2. WHAT IS DAAS AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?...... 4

3. WHAT IS DESKTOP AS A SERVICE (DAAS)?...... 5 3.1. Software-defined workspace Layer...... 6

3.2. Desktop-as-a-Service Layer...... 6

3.3. Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Layer...... 7

4. INTRODUCTION TO NUTANIX XI FRAME...... 8

5. WHAT EXACTLY MAKES NUTANIX XI FRAME DIFFERENT IN COMPARISON TO OTHER DAAS SOLUTIONS?...... 9 5.1. Simplicity...... 9

5.2. Great User Experience...... 10

5.3. Multi-Cloud & Hybrid cloud...... 13

5.4. Flexible consumption models...... 14

5.5. Enterprise features...... 16

5.6. Compliance...... 22

7. CONCLUSION: FRAME COMBINES THE POWER OF CHOICE WITH KISS...... 23 1. End-user computing strategy

“I love my slow, un-secure and tough to manage virtual application and desktop solution!” – said no one ever? Organizations are re-evaluating and adopting key business initiatives such as employee experience, enabling the anywhere workforce, Work from Home, global collaboration, disaster recovery, business continuity, unified communications, cloud first strategy, datacenter transformation, BYOD – Bring Your Own Device, Office productivity w/ Office365 and Google G Suite

IT organizations are reassessing their end-user computing strategy and associated solutions because of the fast-changing business requirements and powerful technology developments such as Desktop as a Service (DaaS), public cloud services, ‘browser is the engine of the modern workspace”, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) to support Virtual applications and desktops, Unified Workspaces, Windows10, Unified communications, Graphical Processor Units (GPUs), Modern Management and Identity as a Service (IDaaS).

In the search for the best end user computing solution, IT professionals and decision makers often start by comparing vendors and the functions and features of their solutions. While it’s important to understand what’s available in the marketplace and assess the capabilities of each solution, a better and stronger starting point is to understand the use-cases and business objectives first. This requires a complete understanding of the goals and obstacles of the business, as well as insight and the desired next step into the features and functionality of the proposed end-user computing solution.

A core element of the modern workspace is the ability to run any application, on any device, anywhere by using a HTML5 browser. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Desktop as a Service (DaaS) are two powerful and fundamental building blocks in the modern workspace and a part of a modern End-user computing strategy.

Designing, building, and maintaining virtual applications and desktops in-house can be challenging due to constraints that may include staffing skills, datacenter space, and budget limitations. IT teams may already be oversubscribed. Finding and retaining experienced administrators with the skills to run a modern—but also complex—VDI platform can be difficult. Adding VDI to your existing mix of applications and services may just multiply your challenges.

Here are some reasons you might choose DaaS: • Accelerate delivery of virtual applications and desktops to users by leveraging public cloud infrastructure in single or multiple cloud regions. • Support hybrid cloud deployments with virtual applications and desktops running on-premises or in public clouds, all managed from a single control plane. • Address the needs of temporary, seasonal, and contract workers • Reduce capital costs (CapEx)/switch to a pay-as-you-go (OpEx) model • Eliminate the need for VDI infrastructure deployment and management

Many companies also find that DaaS give them greater flexibility and agility to: • Support new business initiatives more quickly • “SaaSify” classic Windows applications, by enabling them to be run in a browser • Support a strategic transition to cloud services and run virtual applications and desktops closer to the data • Enable users to move to Chromebooks with Google Enterprise and run Windows apps in a cloud-native fashion • Make VDI simple. Focus on applications and data, not the delivery platform.

Before you can make an informed decision about DaaS, learn more about it.

DaaS provides many of the same capabilities and advantages as VDI for end-users: anywhere access to applications and desktops, no data on the endpoint, and centralized management. However, rather than design, procure, deploy, and manage all the necessary hardware and VDI software yourself, with DaaS contract with a vendor who develops and operates the platform to satisfy your virtual desktop and application needs.

It’s easy to think once a DaaS provider is chosen, there’s no work left to do. However, in most cases that’s not completely correct. Your IT team or IT partner is still responsible for configuring, supporting, and maintaining the user workspace, including the applications for your end-users. See the illustration below. Let’s discuss the three layers of this figure starting at the top.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 5 3.1 SOFTWARE-DEFINED WORKSPACE LAYER I’m starting at the top, because the top layer is the one you’re directly responsible for. If you think about this for a moment, it makes sense that you are responsible for defining and managing the workspaces and the applications that your end-users will access to ensure they have access to the applications they need—whether that’s commercial software or in-house applications.

The virtual workspace also includes the Windows user profile and application settings— all configured and managed centrally. Applications are installed and published within the workspace using central image deployment solutions. These applications often require connections to other back-end systems like web services, database services, and file services to function correctly. Integration between the workspace and back-end services from both an identity management and networking perspective is an important element of the solution.

3.2 DESKTOP-AS-A-SERVICE LAYER The next layer down distinguishes VDI from DaaS: where the control plane, usually referred to as the broker, runs. The broker software, delivered as a service, handles the necessary access provisioning, security, and management functions in a virtual desktop or application environment. It ensures users are connected with the appropriate desktops and applications running on the appropriate infrastructure, in public clouds or on-premises.

The broker may connect with existing identity providers such as Okta, Google, or AzureAD, and interacts with virtual infrastructure on-premises or in public clouds to orchestrate (power on/off, create/delete, and reboot) the workload VMs that run end-user applications. The broker is also responsible for role-based access control and gateway services to deliver secure access to virtual applications and desktops via a launchpad, web interface, or APIs. With VDI, the broker and its supporting services runs in your datacenter (or co-location facility) and is entirely your responsibility. With DaaS, the broker is a managed service running in the cloud. A vendor, such as Nutanix, helps ensure that the broker and any associated services are up to date (often updated with new functionality weekly) and meet agreed-upon SLAs.

By taking over responsibility for the broker, the DaaS provider offloads these responsibilities from your team, supporting new use cases and making life easier.

You will need to evaluate the capabilities and options of a potential DaaS provider carefully before deciding which one to implement. Here are a few important considerations: • Cloud Native or Cloud Naïve? Is the DaaS solution born and designed as a cloud service? • Single cloud or multi-cloud? There are a variety of reasons you may want or need to support DaaS in different cloud environments, including avoiding lock-in. • Use on-premises infrastructure? As discussed in the following section, you may want the broker to be a managed cloud service, while user desktops and applications run on-premises, possibly on infrastructure you own.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 6 • Which desktop operating systems are supported? (Windows and/or Linux.) • What’s the user experience in both WAN and LAN environments? What is the performance when using an HTML5 browser to run virtual apps and desktops? • Subscription and other service options? • Pay as you go? Named and/or concurrent users? • Does the DaaS solution support virtualized desktops and/or virtualized applications? • Are persistent (dedicated) or non-persistent (pooled) desktops supported? • How does the solution handle core capabilities such as image management, capacity management, identity integration, personal cloud storage integration such as OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox? • What about analytics, billing, and APIs? • Can you get started in hours? Is the solution really turn-key, simple to set up and to support or are five day training courses, scripting skills and 3rd party tools required?

3.3 INFRASTRUCTURE-AS-A-SERVICE (IAAS) LAYER All the end-user virtual applications and desktop sessions run on workload machines. These Virtual Machines (VMs) may run on datacenter infrastructure, for example Nutanix HCI with AHV, or on IaaS provided by Azure, AWS or GCP. You may not care where this is—but chances are you do care. Of course, there are pros and cons of using public cloud versus on-premises infrastructure.

Choose on-premises infrastructure: • For predictable, consistent workloads • To achieve fixed costs, pay for peak load 24x7 • When significant applications and data is on-premises (for data locality) • If there is no public cloud IaaS region near the end-users • When no public cloud resources or capacity is available • If data must be on-premises for legal and/or regulatory reasons

Choose public cloud IaaS: • For agility and fast access to resources • To support variable, “bursty,” or seasonal workloads • to achieve a usage-based, pay as you go cost model • When data is already in the cloud (data locality) • To support a global workforce leveraging multiple cloud regions

Don’t be a lemming; a cloud-first strategy doesn’t mean cloud-only. A modern DaaS solution should be able to support hybrid cloud. Leverage a combination of public cloud and on-premises infrastructure where they make the best sense to address business needs and your use-cases.

Frame is a cloud service: a secure cloud platform designed to deliver applications and desktops for business consumers to any device in the world. Clients, agents and plugins aren’t required; all you need is an HTML5 browser. Uniquely, Frame is also not software. The service is cloud hosted, controlled and managed by Nutanix. Nutanix is solely responsible for operating, maintaining and developing the solution as a DaaS platform.

The flexibility of Nutanix Frame allows you to select your preferred infrastructure for running applications and desktops, as well as multi cloud and hybrid environments. During your evaluation process, remember there are pros and cons of public cloud and on-premises infrastructure services.

Additionally, the Frame user interface is simple, delightful and easy to navigate. Frame offers an admin interface for day-to-day activities, as well as a super admin interface, enabling multi-tenancy for large enterprises or managed services providers with multiple customers. You can also create a persistent or non-persistent application or desktop environment using metering analytics and APIs to support administrators and other developers in your environment. Overall, the Frame platform is designed with a great user experience in mind, whether in a LAN, mobile or wide area network.

Now that we’ve established the foundation of Nutanix Frame, let’s dive into the main differentiators to consider as you’re comparing Frame to other DaaS options. • Simplicity • Great experience • Multi Cloud & Hybrid-Cloud • Flexible consumption models • Enterprise features

5.1 SIMPLICITY Of course, many DaaS providers will say “Our solution is easy to use, flexible, multi-cloud and delivers a great user experience” – challenge your vendor, test-drive the solution and see how easy and simple it is to set up, configure and maintain the platform not only initially, but more importantly on a day to day basis.

One key feature contributing to both the uniqueness and the simplicity of Frame is how the service was built from scratch for the public cloud era. What does “cloud era” really mean? It means the solution is simple to use from an end-user, administrator and developer perspective. It also means Frame is API driven, delightful HTML5 browser access, and easy to consume with flexible consumption models. Also, it refers to multi-tenancy, RBAC, and multi-cloud including hybrid-cloud leveraging on-premises resources.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 9 5.2 GREAT USER EXPERIENCE Often a baseline for the average business user is what they use at home, where technical details are far less important than the actual user experience. Imagine this: at home, an employee is using Windows 10. They can install apps, it’s flexible, easy to consume and the general user experience is pleasant. The same user goes to the office and sits in their cubicle. For the sake of the example, this user has an older machine, a single monitor and applications are slow to load. If they request new applications, the wait time is excessive. Working from home isn’t possible. The business user wants a consistent, great employee experience: logging in, starting applications, opening files, printing, moving work and working remotely on a modern operating system should be easy. These elements are part of the user experience, and they’re built into Frame by design.

To deliver a delightful user experience, there are numerous technology requirements. Xi Frame uses the Frame Remoting Protocol (FRP), which ensures the applications and desktop presented on the HTML5 interface perform really well and can easily handle graphic-intensive applications. For example, if you watch a video at 4K resolution, it’s crisp and clear. When you want to render and display resource intensive workstation applications from e.g. Autodesk, Adobe, and ESRI, the experience is great delivering up to 60 frames per second even in a multi-monitor 4K configuration.

The Frame Remoting Protocol works very well in a browser scenario, hence the tagline “Run any application in a browser”. Since the inception of Frame, we’ve made the focused decision to run apps within the HTML5 browser delivering a great user experience with a wide range of functionality such as native cloud storage integration like OneDrive, DropBox, Box and Google Drive. Client printing, bi-directional clipboard redirection, microphone and HQ audio playback with audio & video in-sync and support of special keyboard shortcuts within the user session.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 10 Run any application in a HTML5 browser is a major differentiator between Frame and alternative DaaS solutions. For other VDI and DaaS solutions the browser is the backup plan - “PlanB.”’ For them the preferred method is to install a client, an agent, the receiver or an application on the endpoint to deliver virtual applications and desktops with the best user experience possible. The HTML5 browser and the browser engine in Frame App is the core method to deliver virtual applications and desktops on any device. We already spend so much time today in a browser. Why not run Windows apps in the same browser?

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 11 Frame Remoting Protocol (FRP) works really well in Local Area Network (LAN) in mobile and in Wide Area Network (WAN) scenarios. Based on available bandwidth and network conditions such as latency and packet loss FRP automatically adapts, delivering the best experience possible. Different Quality of Service (QoS) and session policy settings can be applied by the admin to have more granular control over available features and FRP behaviour.

With Xi Frame you can provide users with access to a wide range of computing resources, including burstable CPUs, multiple CPUs, and single or multiple GPUs (including NVIDIA vGPU). Many customers run high-end applications at up to 60 frames per second with GPU acceleration. When there isn’t a NVIDIA (v)GPU available, encoding will happen in the CPU providing solid performance for business productivity applications, browsing and multimedia.

Frame’s auto-scaling functionality provides the best performance for the lowest possible cost. There’s no need for reserved instances, as Frame detects idle usage and automatically suspends the workload—saving infrastructure costs.

Through the power of multi and hybrid cloud, you can easily choose different regions, clouds or data centers to run applications and desktops close to your users. Multi Cloud is very much attached to user experience because you have the flexibility to select your desired regions.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 12 5.3 MULTI-CLOUD & HYBRID CLOUD One of the many values of Frame is choice, multi cloud to allow you to deliver apps and desktops using a mixture of your preferred private or public clouds. This is useful for organizations using a single cloud because cloud strategies often change over time. It gives organizations choice to run applications and desktops close to where the data is and gives customers choice to choose what infrastructure makes best sense for the use-case, the business-case, the performance needs and the legal requirements.

With Frame’s multi-cloud and hybrid cloud platform you can use Nutanix AHV, Azure, AWS and GCP all orchestrated and managed from a single control plane. You can bring your own Amazon, Azure or Google Cloud subscription, use the Nutanix Frame Amazon, Google or Azure subscriptions or use Nutanix AHV powered data centers or co-locations to run your virtual applications and desktops. Is your DaaS solution able to leverage hybrid cloud and multi cloud solutions all managed from a single and easy to use control plane?

The Frame control plane is an excellent demonstrator of the value of multi cloud. Pictured below, the control plane is the cloud service to natively communicate with infrastructure APIs. The Frame orchestrator automatically creates and manages all necessary resources in your cloud subscription.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 13 While Frame supports multi-cloud environments, it also supports hybrid environments. The platform is easy to set up and operate, even in complex hybrid cloud, multi-region configurations.

It’s essential to have the flexibility to use different cloud types where it makes sense, including private clouds, modern data centers and on-premises options. A hybrid approach—control plane in the cloud and ability to use public cloud and/or on-premises infrastructure to run virtual applications or desktops —is an ideal solution for many organizations. It eliminates much of the management complexity, allowing easy support of multiple sites to run applications close to the data and reduce costs for an optimal user experience. Frame gives you the ability to choose the right infrastructure for each use case.

5.4 FLEXIBLE CONSUMPTION MODELS Some organizations prefer an OPEX-driven model, eliminating upfront capital and allowing for as-you-go payment. Other customers operate a different budgeting system and prefer a CAPEX model with, for example, a one, three- or five-year contract. Nutanix Frame offers both CAPEX and OPEX models and consumption-based licensing.

Frame subscriptions are user-based and support concurrent and named user models. Consider organizations with high seasonality, or ISVs who want to SaaS-ify their windows application and deliver this application to their customers and contractors. Consider the education vertical: if a university has 70,000 users, but only a few thousand will use Frame-powered Windows apps at the same time, it’s useful to have choice with respect

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 14 to the consumption licensing model. Many organizations want to have flexibility in terms of the usage model, supporting named or concurrent user licenses addressing their use and business model.

BYO Cloud infrastructure: Many customers will use their own existing public cloud infrastructure subscription such as Azure, AWS or GCP. (BYO-Cloud). This cloud subscription is then connected to the Frame subscription and the control plane automatically creates and orchestrates the resources. Customers can configure VPC/VNET peering to connect their Frame VPC/VNET to existing networks, and setup a VPN Gateway to connect and use on-premises resources. Lastly, they can configure and define security groups and rules based on their own network and security guidelines.

All-in-one: Customers can also consume the Nutanix Frame Azure, AWS or GCP subscription as a managed service. The actual infrastructure required to run virtual applications and desktops is consumed and customers will pay for usage. The benefit is customers don’t need to have their own subscription, IT knowledge to setup or manage the cloud subscription and will receive one single invoice for both infrastructure and Frame usage. This configuration is valuable for customers who don’t need integration with existing infrastructure resources on-premises or public clouds.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 15 5.5 ENTERPRISE FEATURES Multi-tenancy and RBAC Frame is a Desktop as a Service solution with multi-tenancy built-into the core platform. Multi-tenancy gives customers the ability to run and operate independent Frame tenants in a single, scalable and available platform while managing it centrally with fine Role Based Access Control (RBAC). With the ability to configure Customer, Organization and Account levels it is possible to configure and use different Identity Providers (IdP) on the Frame Account. The organization can manage the levels and pick and choose different cloud accounts, both public and private using Nutanix AHV, Azure, AHV and GCP. Each Frame account, or tenant, is able to support hundreds to tens of thousands of users. The multi- tenant feature gives any organization the ability to setup and configure their own Frame customer subscription, define organization(s) and Frame account(s) to reflect the company structure locally, regionally or globally.

Multi-tenancy provides flexible configuration options from both an IdP and an Infra- structure perspective. This gives enterprises, Independent Software Vendors (ISV), System Integrators (SIs) and Managed Service Providers the ability to support their customers in the best way possible.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 16 Virtual applications and desktops Frame is able to deliver virtual applications and desktops, both personal/persistent and pooled/non-persistent. The application and desktops can be executed on Workload Virtual Machines running on-premises with Nutanix AHV and/or public clouds using Azure, AWS and GCP. This infrastructure is managed from a single control plane. When applications are published, the desktop interface isn’t visible for the end-user and only the application(s) are presented to the user.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 17 The ability to support both personal/persistent and pooled/non-persistent desktops enables the ability to support a wide range of use-cases from knowledge workers, designers and office productivity users supported by a pooled/non-persistent environment to developers who likely want their own personal/persistent virtual desktop.

In a non-persistent application and desktop environment, the user preferences stored in the Windows user profile can be made persistent. This ability is enabled by using the included Frame enterprise profiles solution or leveraging solutions such as Microsoft Group Policies, Group Policy Preferences, roaming profiles or 3rd party solutions such as Microsoft, Liquidware, Ivanti and more.

Frame Enterprise Profiles The Frame enterprise profiles feature collects all Windows user profile data and places it into a secure storage container. When a user logs on, this profile-disk is attached automatically to the VM and made available to the user session. Frame enterprise profiles allow the organization to easily manage a non-persistent / pooled environment while providing persistence for user preferences stored in the Windows user profile. The Enterprise profiles feature is embedded into Frame and with a single click, at no additional cost. The performance of a session logon is independent of the size of the profile disk which means it is easy to support large user profiles without impacting the end user experience. This solves the common issue of large Windows profiles, for example a large Microsoft Office 365 cache stored in the profile.

Admin API With the Admin API, many tasks of the Frame platform can be automated. For example, imagine a chain of 10 elements. Four of these elements are Frame-related and six are not. One approach is to use an external automation framework, and Frame would need to integrate into it. Let’s use Autodesk AutoCAD as an example for the full stack of the Admin API. Every week, Autodesk has a new build of AutoCAD entirely automated. Software developers create new features, fix bugs and deploy a new build of the platform. This new build would be installed into the Frame system automatically through automation frame- works and APIs. After the application is installed to Frame, the CRM system will send an email to Autodesk partners to request feedback for the new build prior to making it generally available. A user can click on the link in the email and the application launches instantly.

Session API The Session API is used for application integration. Consider the same AutoCAD example above: when the user simply clicks on the link in the email, they’ll be able to launch and use see the latest AutoCAD build in 15 seconds after clicking the URL, with no login, launchpad or web interface required. Essentially, the application is encapsulated so you can run applications that appear to be native. For instance, from the Windows 10 menu or the Google shelf in a Chromebook. Although it is running in a browser, it will not appear that way to the user.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 19 Autoscaling and capacity management Frame auto-scale functionality provides the best performance for the lowest possible cost. There’s no need for reserved instances, as Frame detects idle usage and automatically suspends the workload—saving infrastructure costs.

Customers can configure capacity to scale dynamically based on user demand. Elastic Instance Management or “elasticity” is a rule-engine in the Frame platform that allows an account administrator to configure instant-access to instances by defining how many instances should be started at specific times and circumstances.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 20 Identity Providers, Classic AD Modern IdP Frame provides a flexible, easy to configure and native integration with modern Identity Providers (IdPs), such as Azure Active Directory, Google Sign-In, Ping, Okta, and others. Additional integrations can be performed using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, OAuth 2 based protocols.

©2020 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved | 21 Classic Active Directory Many organizations rely on Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for provisioning user accounts, applying Group (security) policies to operating systems, and enabling access to active directory integrated applications. In classic on-premises environments, Windows operating systems are “joined to the (AD) domain” in order to enable these functions.

Frame allows administrators to join their workload VMs to their Active Directory domain. This allows users to log in to a Windows machine using their AD credentials. Since the Windows operating system is joined to the customer’s domain, the user can use Windows applications that rely on AD for access, authentication and authorization. Classic Active directory integration is optional, Frame does also operate without classic AD which is different from other DaaS solutions.

5.6 COMPLIANCE Security and privacy for our customers is one of the key tenants of our Nutanix Frame Desktop as a Service (DaaS) platform. We comply with some of the most stringent security standards in the world in order to serve a variety of use cases.

Frame is ISO 27001, 27017,27018, SOC 2 Type1, SOC2 Type2 and SOC3 compliant. Frame is able to enter into a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with the covered entity to comply with HIPAA.

GDPR compliance, tThe security and privacy of our customers’ data has always been and will continue to be a top priority. The Nutanix License and Services Agreement (NLSA) NLSA and Frame Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy was updated as of May 25, 2018 to be more transparent and to comply with the new European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) directive. We reference our Data Protection Addendum (DPA) which outlines how we collect and process data, how data retention and deletion are handled, and your rights and responsibilities when using Frame.

The Nutanix Xi Frame Government Cloud is a cloud that is separate and isolated from Nutanix Xi Frame. It allows US government agencies and other public sector organizations to use Frame with Azure Government, AWS GovCloud, AWS C2S and run virtual applications and desktops with the most sensitive workloads.

Frame is FedRAMP In-Process, it means that the service is in the process of being reviewed for a JAB P-ATO or Agency ATO. This designation puts the Nutanix Xi Government Cloud one step closer to achieving FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, which will provide public sector customers with a more unified fabric that enables them to extend workloads across different cloud environments used by federal agencies.

What makes Nutanix Xi Frame different than Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware DaaS solutions? Nutanix Frame gives you the power of choice, while keeping it stupid simple (KISS). We remove complexity, making delivery of virtual applications and desktop simple.

A summary of key differentiators: • Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support (Nutanix AHV, AWS, Azure, and GCP) to support workload VMs on-premises and in public clouds • Virtual applications and desktops powered by CPU, NVIDIA vGPU, and multi-GPU • Persistent (personal) and non-persistent (pooled) desktops • HTML5 browser access and HTML5 engine in NativeApp for Windows, Mac or Linux including various ThinClient OSes. • Modern (SAML/Oauth) authentication and classic Active Directory instance integration • Friendly user interfaces and well-documented APIs • Windows and Linux guest OSs support • Built-in enterprise user profiles, containerized Windows User Profiles • Native integration with Microsoft Office 365/OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive • Bring Your own infrastructure or use Nutanix managed Azure, AWS, GCP infrastructure • Multi-tenancy and RBAC to support complex ISVs, enterprises and Managed Service providers

Desktop as a service is the future of Windows and application delivery. The industry is moving toward this model. Frame started using this model nearly a decade ago, giving us a distinct advantage in the DaaS space. Frame was built in the cloud, for the cloud.

Frame provides the ability to deliver virtual apps and desktops to users worldwide, whether it’s in the cloud with AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, or on-premises using Nutanix AHV.

To see Frame in action, take a test drive today at https://www.nutanix.com/products/frame/test-drive-alt. Have questions now? Contact us and an expert will be in touch ASAP.

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