Desktop as a Service

An Alternative to Running Your Own Remote Desktop Server

With technology today, small teams with remote workers can produce great amounts of work. There are several ways to stay in touch. This includes mobile phones, tablets, laptops and more. By giving your employees the ability to access all of the applications and data files they need on a daily basis from anywhere at anytime, you provide them with both convenience and a strong competitive edge. But how does IT avoid this from becoming a nightmare to secure and support? Desktop as a Service (DaaS), is one solution that may help.

How does it work?

Desktop as a Service (DaaS), also referred to as a Hosted Remote Desktop, is a technology that allows a third party service provider to host a company’s Remote Desktop application. This would replace the traditional and more expensive way of a company running a Remote Desktop application on their own servers, on-site. With DaaS, a company’s desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones all connect to the service providers’ DaaS servers via either a public Internet connection or a secure MPLS network.

What’s in it for you?

Increase flexibility for your team. Give your team the ability to access applications and data anytime, anywhere through a secure connection.

Provider holds knowledge so you don’t have to. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is essentially the technology of DaaS, but the difference between the two is that with DaaS you have a provider managing everything for you. You don’t have to know anything about desktop storage optimization or image management.

Scale your data with ease. Like all cloud services, it’s pay as you go so you can grow and downsize quickly, without being tied to purchasing, upgrading or trashing infrastructure. In comparison to VDI in which adding and de-provisioning users can result in unused capacity and essentially the loss of money for you and your business.

Simplify your IT strategy. Since your servers are not in-house, but in a data center, customers, remote users and/or additional sites are not dependent on your hub site’s power, equipment, connectivity and staff.

Minimize downtime costs. This technology is particularly popular when it comes to minimizing the risk by backing up your data and utilizing disaster recovery settings. Moreover, do you really want every employee’s computing capability relying on your HQ’s single Internet connection with an insufficient back-up connection?

Fair pricing. The base desktop pricing it typically around $30-35 per month per user and the price changes from there, based on the different functionality you want from your provider, including user environment management, image creation, layering or local file storage.

Experience complete mobility. This service is one that allows you to not only access your files from anywhere that is most convenient to you from one minute to the next but it also allows you to access your most valuable information on a variety of different devices. In addition, your files are never completely shut down even if you power off the device that you are viewing the files on, allowing you to free yourself of the hassle of saving your files on your desktop.