VDI AND DAAS ADOPTION HAS WITNESSED A NEAR 100% INCREASE

He has been focusing on providing specialised cloud services focused on end-user experience management in enterprise environments aimed at helping enterprises move to new-generation end-user computing (EUC) environments. In an interaction with Dataquest, Ananda Mukerji, Founder and Chairman, Anunta Tech shares his views on the impact of COVID-19, the emergence of desktop-as-a-service, and the company’s growth plan. Excerpts:

- Anusha Ashwin

How would you describe Anunta’s corporate journey so far?

Anunta is a leading cloud-based end-user computing solutions provider focused on managed desktops and digital workspace solutions. We help enterprises all over the world in their workplace transformation journeys by moving their existing workloads from traditional desktop environments to the cloud, thereby allowing their employees to access enterprise applications and data from anywhere, anytime and on any device.

Anunta started its operations in 2012 evangelising desktop virtualisation technologies, which at that time were relatively unfamiliar to most in the industry. The founding team originally came out from Firstsource Solutions, a global BPO company and one of the very early adopters of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology in the world. The success of this deployment and the clear benefits, both technical and business, encouraged us to take the managed VDI offerings to the market and help other organisations facing IT infrastructure management and user performance challenges. Over the years, we saw more and more enterprises move away from traditional PC-based EUC environments to cloud-based virtual environments, initially on private clouds and now increasingly on public clouds. Anunta has been a key player in this journey, successfully migrating close to 500,000 remote desktops in enterprises across many industries including banking and financial services, manufacturing, travel, media, aviation and IT.

How have the Indian companies faced and dealt with an accelerated demand for digital technologies, especially in the ‘new normal’ following the pandemic?