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), 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.
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.
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?