10 Ways HD Efficiency

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A hosted desktop solution has several advantages
over the traditional client / server in-house
model. Some of these advantages include reduced
IT costs, increased security, better performance,
and improved mobility. Companies that have
switched to hosted desktops have seen another
perk, one that many businesses did not
anticipate an increase in business efficiency.
Find out how switching to a hosted desktop
solution can help your business be more efficient.
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What is a Hosted Desktop? A hosted desktop is a
desktop operating system that is stored on a
hosted server and delivered to an end-user device
(such as a thin client, PC, laptop, tablet, or
smartphone) via an Internet connection. It
appears and functions exactly like a traditional
desktop. Which Industries and Business Benefit
from Hosted Desktops? Businesses of all sizes and
from any industry can benefit from a virtual
desktop solution. Hosted desktops reduce IT
costs, alleviate the challenges associated with
maintaining an in-house IT infrastructure, help
increase mobility, and can help businesses remain
compliant with industry standards. 10 Ways a
Hosted Desktop Solution Makes Businesses More
Efficient Here are 10 ways that your business can
become more efficient if you move your IT
infrastructure to a virtual desktop hosting
solution, as well as some ways that set
onthenetOffice hosted desktops apart from the
rest.
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SCALABILITY
One of the great benefits of hosted services,
such as hosted desktops, is that they are
scalable. What that means is that your
infrastructure can start out to fit your business
today and scale up or down to accommodate your
businesss growth. As your business grows, your
provider can add additional servers, desktops,
and storage without interrupting your day to day
operation. Additionally, your desktops are fully
customized to reflect changing needs of the user
(such as more processing power or more
memory). A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
from onthenetOffice maintains efficiency even as
it expands or contracts with no downtime. Whereas
drastic changes in use can sometimes slow down a
traditional server/workstation environment, one
that is scalable allows the addition of virtual
resources to the active desktop in real-time so
that the environment performs optimally even
during periods of large growth.
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BETTER PERFORMANCE
Hosted desktops often perform better and more
efficiently than their traditional, local desktop
counterparts. A desktop environment that is
constantly being monitored and tuned for
performance will always run faster ensure the
highest level of user satisfaction and
efficiency. Performance tuning will decrease
downtime which is often associated with
slower-running systems and applications found in
a traditional desktop environment. Instead of
waiting for applications to launch or waiting for
large files to download, hosted desktop users can
demand and receive instantaneous reactions from
their desktop.. onthenetOffice hosted desktops
come equipped with SMX Speed Technology, a unique
combination of technologies, protocols, and
practices that allows clients to launch their
desktops and applications in less than one
second, drastically decreasing wait time and
increasing productivity, even on low-powered
mobile devices such as Tablets, iPhones, and
iPads.
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INCREASED MOBILITY
One of the primary advantages of a hosted virtual
desktop is that you and your employees can
securely access them from anywhere. Now that
mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets
play a major role in daily business, it is
becoming business-essential that employees have
secure access to their applications and data from
multiple sources. Since a hosted desktop allows
data and applications to be centrally located in
a private Cloud, users can access the exact same
desktop from anywhere, making a hosted desktop
solution more productive than a traditional
on-site desktop environment.
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COLLABORATION
It probably goes without saying that
collaboration among employees makes the workplace
more efficient. Hosted desktops help improve
collaboration and, therefore, improve business
efficiency. With a hosted virtual desktop
solution, all of the applications used by an
organization are virtualized and housed on an
array of interconnected servers and desktops.
AAny employee with valid security credentials and
permissions can access their desktop and
application they need from anywhere. This makes
accessing, editing and saving files extremely
seamless since all files remain on the company
storage system and allows employees to work on
the same documents without having to email them
back and forth.
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MANAGED BY THE PROVIDER
With desktop hosting, top tier providers such as
onthenetOffice include managed services as a part
of their solution. Technical Engineers perform
critical security updates and system maintenance
around the clock to ensure a businesss
infrastructure is always running optimally.
Hosted desktop providers may also include
24x7x365 technical support for a companys
desktop and business applications. With
onthenetOffice, all of our hosted desktop
solutions come backed by a team of experts who
perform regular updates and system checks and are
available 24x7x365 to resolve any issues you may
encounter.
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AUTOMATED BACKUP
In addition to managing your IT infrastructure,
most hosted solutions providers also include
managed and automated backups. These backups
ensure that your critical data will not be lost
in case of employee error (such as accidental
file deletion). Since all of your information is
stored on your providers backup servers and is
most likely replicated and stored on other,
geographically separated backup servers, you
dont have to worry about wasting time trying to
recover it or generating new data. onthenetOffice
features 3 geographically isolated data centers
to protect your most valued information.
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CENTRALIZATION
With a traditional onsite client / server
infrastructure, applications are housed on each
individual workstation and files are typically
stored on one or more local servers. Application
updates or file maintenance means will mandate
that every users workstation on the network will
need to be updated independently. With the
hosted virtual desktop model, however,
centralized applications and data files are
delivered to each users desktop so that the roll
out of an application update is simple, seamless
and occurs for all users at once. A centralized
desktop environment makes a businesss IT more
efficient. Instead of having to update each
users individual application, the provider can
deploy a single update to the software on the
clients dedicated server. Additionally, the
centralized nature of a hosted desktop solution
allows for greater flexibility if a users
endpoint workstation fails, they can simply use
another one to connect to their always-active
hosted desktop.
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MORE FLEXIBILITY
A standard operating system has a dedicated, 11
relationship with its underlying hardware. A
hosted desktop is platform and device agnostic.
That means that it can be easily transferred from
one unit of hardware to another it can be
accessed from any device and it can be created,
deleted, or quarantined on demand. Managing a
hosted desktop infrastructure is more efficient
because is allows you to perform tasks quickly
and effortlessly that would normally require
extensive coding or new hardware purchases.
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HOST ALL APPLICATIONS
Some software companies offer the standard
client-server versions of their software, where
clients purchase and install the applications
they need. Other companies offer SaaS, where they
host their own applications on the Cloud, so that
they can be accessed by the user through a web
browser. With a hosted desktop, however, you
can install and run all of your applications on a
single desktop. You can access these applications
from anywhere simply sign on, and access all
your applications (including custom-built
applications) from any of your hosted desktops.
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REDUCE COST
While finances may not be the first thing
businesses consider when they hear the word
efficiency, it is important for companies to
spend their money efficiently. Hosted desktops
are often more cost-efficient than a traditional
desktop for several reasons, three of which are
listed below. 1) hosted desktops do not require
a large, upfront capital expenditure (CAPEX)
once implemented, a company only has to pay a
low, flat monthly fee as an operating expense
(OPEX) to continue receiving its hosted desktops.
2) businesses will invest less in IT support
since hosted desktop providers like
onthenetOffice, include technical support. There
is no need to hire someone to work in-house or an
expensive IT contractor. 3) a hosted solution
extends the useful life of the already owned
endpoint device. Since the processing is all
done at the provider lever, the local workstation
or endpoint device doesnt have to be replaced
until they completely fail. Desktop hosting
solutions from onthenetOffice are a great way for
businesses to remain cost-efficient they start
as low as just 1/day!
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CONCLUSION
Many businesses that have moved away from the
traditional workstation/server infrastructure to
a hosted desktop environment have found that they
are much more efficient. By moving away from a
locally maintained IT environment into a hosted
environment, users can securely access their
company desktop from any device, start from the
same point they stopped on, and can expect 100
uptime. These reasons alone enable the company
and its employees to be much more efficient by
using a hosted desktop.
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