Operational work comes back in-house
The paradox of our times: never so much attention to digital sovereignty, never so much dependence on overseas SaaS suites. Declared data boundaries do not move the jurisdiction of whoever holds the data; and meanwhile remote access to workstations lives in a separate contract, with another vendor and another price list. VDesk unites the three things operational work asks for every day, and brings them back in-house.
Communicate
Group chat with search, video calls and video conferences with invitations and a calendar. End-to-end encryption.
Share
Files and folders with granular permissions, robust chunked uploads, redundant object storage.
Reach
RDP, VNC and SSH remote desktops in the browser, no client required, with VDI pools and VM power-on.
One platform. One contract. Under your own roof.
VDesk is not a multi-tenant service you rent a slice of: every organization has its own installation, on its own servers or with the provider it chooses. The installation is organized into regions (Rome, Milan, Naples, or your own), each with its own data residency and its own jurisdiction, federated with one another. With three nearby sites a region survives the loss of a datacenter without losing a single piece of data; and every region has a twin ready to take over.
“The digital workspace is not a service you rent. It is infrastructure you own.”
Six reasons to bring it in-house
Everything operational work needs, designed together, not integrated afterwards.
Chat and meetings
One-to-one and group conversations with full-text search and archives; video calls and video conferences with invitations, moderation and an integrated calendar. End-to-end encryption, and quality that adapts to each participant’s network.
Remote desktops and VDI
RDP, VNC and SSH in the browser, with no client to install. Pools of interchangeable workstations with session affinity and per-member capacity; Wake-on-LAN and automatic VM power-on on TVirt. Several sessions at once, in independent tabs.
Files, permissions, space
Folders and files with granular permissions for users and groups, chunked uploads that resume from where they stopped, redundant object storage replicated within the region. Copy and move with no surprises.
Enterprise identity
Users and groups synchronized from LDAP and Active Directory, OTP second factor, application tokens for integrations. RBAC with secure delegation: administrators cannot grant more power than they hold.
Operational sovereignty
One tenant per installation, never a slice of somebody else’s cloud. Regions pin data residency by jurisdiction. And GDPR is a feature, not paperwork: personal data export and the right to be forgotten are native APIs.
Resilience by design
With three nearby sites, losing a datacenter loses no data and stops no work; every region has a standby twin. Updates drain components before touching them: active sessions are never cut.
Compute, storage and workspace: the complete Italian platform, from a single point of contact, with the power-on of virtual workstations orchestrated by VDesk.
Features, as standard
One product, one contract: everything that follows is included, not a price list of modules.
Communicate and share
One-to-one and group chat with managed participants, archives and full-text search across messages
Video calls and video conferences with invitations, roles and moderation: promote, mute, remove
Integrated calendar: scheduled meetings, events and notifications
Adaptive quality (simulcast): everyone receives the right stream for their own network
Contacts and presence, with real-time indicators
Files and folders with granular ACLs, resumable chunked uploads, copy and move
Reach your workstations
RDP, VNC and SSH in the browser, with no client to install or update
VDI pools: interchangeable workstations behind a single name, with least-load selection
Session affinity: users who disconnect get their own workstation back, within the chosen window
Per-member capacity: the cap on concurrent sessions respects your licenses (CALs)
Wake-on-LAN and VM power-on on TVirt: a powered-off workstation starts the moment it is needed
Multiple sessions in independent tabs, with session tokens never written to the logs
Platform and governance
LDAP and Active Directory: users and groups synchronized, with configurable local precedence
Second factor (OTP) for users, and centralized management for administrators
RBAC with secure delegation: roles and grants with non-amplification, so nobody grants what they do not hold
GDPR as an API: privacy summary, personal data export and the right to be forgotten, all native
Searchable audit log and batch operations to administer at scale
Clients behind firewalls: port 443 is all it takes, audio and video included
mTLS between all components and hardened, minimal-surface components
Common Criteria EAL4 readiness, for the environments that require it
Documented REST API (OpenAPI) with an official JavaScript library
Updates without cutting sessions: components drain before restarting
VDesk and the alternatives
Before the comparison, a note of honesty: VDesk is not an office suite; it sits alongside e-mail and document editing rather than replacing them. The comparison is about day-to-day operational work.
| PLATFORM | CONTROL PLANE | LICENSING MODEL | WORTH CONSIDERING |
|---|---|---|---|
Trantor VDesk Trantor® · Italy | Dedicated installation: on-premise or with the provider you choose | One Trantor contract, everything included | Communicate, share and reach workstations in a single sovereign platform; with TVirt© and TVStor, the complete Italian stack |
Microsoft Teams · 365 Microsoft · non-EU | Multi-tenant SaaS in the vendor’s cloud | Per user per month, by edition | The de facto standard, with the richest ecosystem; but the declared data boundary does not move the jurisdiction, and on-premise is no longer the mainstream path |
Google Workspace Google · non-EU | Multi-tenant SaaS in the vendor’s cloud | Per user per month, by edition | Same model, same sticking point: the tenant is a slice of somebody else’s cloud, under another jurisdiction |
Nextcloud Hub Germany · EU | Self-hosted; components to assemble | Open source + per-user subscription (from 100 users) | The European reference, the most widespread in the public sector; but Talk, the video backend and the suite are pieces to integrate, and remote desktops are not its core business |
Element · Matrix UK · open standard | Self-hosted, federated (Matrix) | Open source + subscription (Element Server Suite) | Sovereign messaging par excellence, chosen by dozens of governments; but it covers messages and calls: no structured file space and no remote desktops |
Zextras Carbonio Italy | Self-hosted or through a local provider | Editions: Community, Email, Workspace | The other Italian player, strong on e-mail and its document suite; complementary rather than a rival: remote desktops are not its domain |
Citrix · Omnissa non-EU | Classic VDI: broker, agent and dedicated clients | Per user (named or concurrent), subscription bundles | Desktop delivery only: collaboration is in another contract. And 2026 brought documented price increases and activations tied to the vendor’s cloud |
Positioning summary as of July 2026, from public sources. Trademarks belong to their respective owners.
- 1.
“Where do messages, files and sessions live, and under which jurisdiction?”
VDesk answers in writing.
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“Is my tenant mine, or a slice of somebody else’s cloud?”
- 3.
“How many platforms, and how many contracts, does it take for chat, files and workstations?”
In-house, for real
Sovereignty is not a label on a brochure: it is a set of verifiable properties. These are VDesk’s four.
Data in-house
The installation is yours, and there is a single tenant: yours. Regions pin where data lives, and under which jurisdiction, site by site.
The identity is yours
Users and groups come from your LDAP or Active Directory; second factor and RBAC with secure delegation complete the perimeter. No account in somebody else’s cloud.
Open doors
Documented REST API (OpenAPI) with an official library; standard protocols everywhere: RDP, VNC and SSH for workstations, S3 for storage, LDAP for identity.
Your data leaves with you
Personal data export via API, files downloadable in the clear, inspectable configuration: reversibility is a feature, not a negotiation.
Encrypted by design
mTLS between all components, end-to-end encryption on communications, session tokens never in the logs, and clients need nothing more than port 443, even behind the strictest firewalls.
The Trantor® family
Compute, storage and workspace: the complete Italian platform, from a single point of contact.
Virtualization: VMs and containers, symmetric cluster.
Software-Defined SAN on standard servers.
The sovereign digital workspace.
Last updated: 10 August 2026. The contents of this page follow the brochure of that revision.
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