What are hosted desktops, and how can they benefit your business?
29th September 2020
What are hosted desktops, and how can they benefit your business?
A hosted desktop (also known as Desktop as a service or DaaS) can be an invaluable investment for your business. Using the leaps forward technology has made in terms of cloud computing, your business can operate both more efficiently and securely - while also reducing your infrastructure costs over time. A hosted desktop service can be one of the best investments your business can make.
What is a hosted desktop?
A hosted desktop is a simple concept - your desktop is comprised of the programs and documents you interact with on a daily basis. So your emails, your office package, and any other dedicated programs you use for example. Normally they are stored in the memory of the machine you're using. With a hosted desktop, they are stored externally on a cloud server and provided to you on demand.
What are the benefits
The benefits list is huge. Firstly it allows you complete freedom in the way you, your employees, and your clients approach working because you can have access to your work desktop anywhere, on any device. That means whether you're travelling, at home outside office hours, or at a remote meeting, you can always have access to your documents and programs as long as you have a connection.
This also contributes to the second major benefit, which is a reduction in infrastructure costs. As your office machines are no longer tasked with storing your desktops and data, it means you don't have to upgrade them so often as they're doing basically no work. All of the heavy lifting is handled server-side, which is covered by the hosted desktop provider - so no more big hardware bills.
Another clear benefit is that you get to enjoy the increase in security offered by a professionally managed server provider. The server will be accessible whenever you want it, be able to handle multiple employees drawing the same data simultaneously, and be covered by constantly updating virus definitions and security protocols. Your data, and that of your employees and customers, will be safe.
To learn more about how hosted desktops can benefit your business, contact Host My Office today on 01892 267200 or email hello@hostmyoffice.co.uk
