IT architect Marco Simoncini was enjoying Friday evening supper in a restaurant in Rome with his colleague Piernunzio Pennisi when inspiration struck. Simoncini began sketching out his vision on a napkin. Before long, he headed home. By 2am the following morning, he had finalised the design for a new kind of desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) service. “He left the restaurant without paying,” says Pennisi. “But it was an incredible idea: using container technology to create a new way of delivering desktop environments via a low-cost user interface.” Today, Simoncini’s design is a patented technology c…