Azure Virtual Desktops are a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud.
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Kasm Workspaces
Score 8.4 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Streams workplace environments directly to a web
browser, on any device and from any location. Workspaces is a solution for remote browser isolation (RBI), containerized application streaming (CAS), virtualized desktop infrastructure (VDI) and desktop as a service (DaaS) that provides a remote desktop and remote work solution for distributed workforces. The Workspaces platform provides enterprise-class orchestration, data loss prevention (DLP), and web streaming technology to…
$0
per month per user
Pricing
Azure Virtual Desktop
Kasm Workspaces
Editions & Modules
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Workspaces Community
$0
per user
Cloud Personal
$5
per month per user
Workspaces Enterprise
$10
per user per month
Cloud Teams
$10
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Virtual Desktop
Kasm Workspaces
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
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Additional Details
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Kasm is available as low as $10/user/month for self-hosted or private/hybrid cloud and starting at $5/user/month for personal or $10/user/month for teams and enterprises.
Currently Azure Virtual Desktop enviroments are our first choice for all customers. Especially because most of our customers already have a M365 License which includes Azure Virtual Desktop usage. We deploy it for both RemoteApp and Full desktop solutions. This gives us the flexibility to "lift and shift" a specific workload of more legacy customers towards the cloud and provide them with a secure solution to use their apps in the cloud from anywhere.
Kasm Workspaces is a good fit for when you need to provide home-based workers access to corporate information or application, but you don't want to provide full network access through a VPN connection. It works well for when you want to ensure that data cannot be taken out of the network or you want to allow non-company devices to be used to access internal resources.
Use the Azure portal, Windows Virtual Desktop PowerShell and REST interfaces to configure the host pools, create app groups, assign users, and publish resources.
Publish full desktop or individual remote apps from a single host pool, create individual app groups for different sets of users, or even assign users to multiple app groups to reduce the number of images.
As we manage our environment, we use built-in delegated access to assign roles and collect diagnostics to understand various configuration or user errors.
We use the new Diagnostics service to troubleshoot errors.
The Kasm support team is always responsive to our questions. They interact with us directly, even as a small customer. They also notify us of software updates and check in on our usage of the software.
I think that the cloud based [Azure] Windows Virtual Desktop is the future and sets the precedent for how these should be configured in the future. I've used cheap options and other more expensive options, but VD is the best when compared to Citrix or freeware. I would recommend it to anyone over these.
Kasm is alot more cost effective than Citrix or VMWare. We wanted an on-premise solution to provide remote access to our internal network resources. The Citrix and VMware solutions require significantly more hardware to run, since Kasm runs on a Linux server as containers and each of the images run as a small container. The licenses were significantly less expensive for Kasm too.