Challenges and Solutions of Developing and Implementing a Novel Desktop-as-a-Service

Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) is a cloud service category with tremendous potential for improving the everyday work of running and using applications. However, existing DaaS solutions have several drawbacks, which have limited the popularity of this service category in the past. Our novel DaaS solution, DESIGN, overcomes existing solutions limitations and offers significant benefits. It can potentially revolutionize how we use applications, supporting non-modified Linux and Windows applications with just a browser on the client side. This paper describes some of the knowledge we gained during the development because of the challenges we faced and the solutions we found.