
VMware will be responsible for delivering and fully managing the package deal and subscription for cloud and hybrid environments. The integration is already available now for VMware Horizon View 5.3 and Google Chromebook customers, delivered as an on-premise service. Google Enterprise chief Amit Singh boasted separately in prepared remarks that Google Chromebooks could save businesses about $5,000 per computer when compared to traditional PCs." Rajen Sheth, director of product management for the Google Chrome team, explained in a blog post on Wednesday morning how Desktop-as-a-Service on Chromebooks can not only serve to bridge old and new technologies - but eventually replace them altogether.Īs the countdown to Windows XP end of life continues, deploying Chromebooks and taking advantage of a DaaS environment ensures that security vulnerabilities, application compatibility and migration budgets will be a thing of the past. The final advantage of Chrome OS that a lot of people don’t think about is that it has a real desktop browser.

The pipeline is designed to provide access to legacy Windows-based applications, data and desktops via a Web-based application catalog on Chromebooks thanks to VMware's Blast HTML5 Desktop Access software. So a Chromebook is a stateless OS with a laptop form factor that has the ability to run the deep catalog of Android apps.
