Nasstar's Hosted Desktop, as this illustration suggests, lets individuals work outside of the box. Webroot's SaaS-based web and email security will ensure that the environment outside the box is safe.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Nasstar (www.nasstar.com), which provides email hosting and a cloud-based hosted desktop, has partnered with cloud security provider Webroot (www.webroot.co.uk) to provide SaaS-based web and email security, including email encryption.
According to Webroot’s Monday announcement, Webroot’s Web Security SaaS and Webroot Email Security SaaS will enhance the Hosted Desktop and Hosted Exchange services offered by Nasstar as it seeks to establish itself as a volume operator over the next three years.
“Webroot…will further enhance Nasstar’s Hosted Desktop and Hosted Exchange services,” Nasstar founder and chief executive Charles Black said in a statement. “Webroot’s range of quality solutions, and its unprecedented pedigree within the SaaS Security space, enables us to continue to deliver a world-class cloud-based service to our clients. We look forward to working with Webroot as we continue to redefine the desktop computing landscape.”
Gartner predicts that the hosted desktop market will grow from $1.5 billion in 2009 to $65.7 billion in 2013, when nearly 40 percent of all desktops will be delivered virtually. Nasstar’s Hosted Desktop provides subscribers access to their desktop, files, applications and email over the Internet, enabling them to do all of their computing in the Internet cloud rather than on a local computer.
Webroot EMEA channel director Ian Moyse said his company is delighted to be chosen by Nasstar as a partner. “In our experience, we have found that our full range of email and web-based SaaS security services, our advanced technical support and the commercial benefits of working with a global vendor such as Webroot, are of paramount importance to our partners’ establishment of a strong foothold in the SaaS market,” Moyse said in a statement.
Predicted to expand in the next few years, the hosted desktop market has recently seen much interest in the hosting community as service providers prepare for wide adoption. For instance, IT and business experience services provider BTR Associates (www.btrassociates.com) chose Parallels’ (www.parallels.com) server virtualization software, Virtuozzo Containers, in June to help it deploy and manage its hosted virtual desktop offerings.
