Infosaic Cloud compared with Azure Virtual Desktop

What each product is

Azure Virtual Desktop is Microsoft's desktop platform on Azure. You stand up a workspace and one or more host pools, pick virtual machine sizes, attach a virtual network, and decide whether each host is single-session or multi-session. Cost follows Azure consumption. User access rights come from qualifying Windows and Microsoft 365 licenses you already own or buy separately.

Infosaic Cloud is an independent hosting company's Windows 11 virtual desktop, sold as Desktop as a Service and VDI. Four packages cover light browsing through an advanced PC workload. Light uses Windows 11 LTSC with Office pre-installed but not activated, so the customer brings a license. Each desktop is for one interactive user.

AVD is the right shape when an IT team wants to size capacity, pool users, and integrate deep Azure networking. Infosaic is the right shape when the buyer wants a personal desktop without building a host pool.

How you get a desktop

Infosaic's main advantage is instant delivery. After signup the customer receives an email with the login. Provisioning time is zero.

Azure Virtual Desktop is a deployment. Someone creates the Azure resources, assigns an image, joins identity, publishes application groups, and then invites users. That work can be templated and later automated, but the first path is not a login email at the moment of purchase.

Access on both sides uses a browser or a Remote Desktop client. Infosaic also gives a direct web link. AVD uses the Windows App and Microsoft's Remote Desktop clients against the workspace you published.

Control, images, and software

Every Infosaic desktop includes full administrator rights. Users can install the applications they need without waiting for a golden-image pipeline.

On Azure Virtual Desktop you own the image. That is the product's strength for estates that already maintain FSLogix profiles, custom agents, and Intune or Group Policy. It is also the operational cost. Multi-session hosts need Shared Computer Activation for Office and careful profile design. Single-session AVD hosts can look closer to a personal PC, still inside the host-pool model.

HIPAA workloads can be discussed with Infosaic because the company has signed Business Associate Agreements before. Compliance of the facility sits with the data center, not with Infosaic, and this page does not list attestations. On AVD, compliance follow-through sits with how you configure Azure and with the data center regions you choose.

Network and isolation

Infosaic places each desktop on Hyper-V isolation in a United States data center. Redundant carriers blend traffic so that if one provider has an outage another continues the path. Each desktop receives a dedicated public IP and unmetered traffic.

Azure Virtual Desktop networking is the virtual network you attach. You decide subnets, network security groups, private endpoints, outbound NAT, and whether a host has a public IP. Egress is an Azure meter. That flexibility is why AVD is chosen for hybrid identity and on-premises routes. It is not a dedicated public IP included with the seat.

Neither product is described here as carrier-neutral. The practical difference is an included dedicated public IP and unmetered traffic on Infosaic versus an Azure network you design and pay for on AVD.

Packages and scale

Light is for light browsing and basic office work: 3 GB RAM, 4 virtual cores, Windows 11 LTSC. Basic is an office desktop replacement and is good for all office applications. Standard is for resource-hungry office applications such as advanced QuickBooks. Advanced is the most powerful package and matches the functionality of an advanced PC.

Azure Virtual Desktop does not sell four named packages. You pick VM families, including GPU SKUs when the workload needs them, and you scale session hosts up and down. Multi-session pooling is how AVD lowers cost for shift and bursty use. Infosaic does not pool people onto one Windows 11 desktop.

Billing, support, and commitments

Infosaic has no contract. Billing is monthly or annual. Support is staffed around the clock. There is no formal SLA.

Azure Virtual Desktop bills Azure compute, storage, and network for as long as the session hosts run, plus the user-access licenses those users need. Reservations and autoscale change the bill. Support is an Azure support plan plus the team that operates the host pools.

This page states Infosaic's published starting price and does not invent Azure unit rates. Compare a steady personal desktop with a consumption host pool rather than a single headline number.