With restrictions and guidelines in a state of constant fluctuation, figuring out the most appropriate IT solution to use for your business can be difficult. Trying to accommodate staff working from home, along with essential work that must be carried out in-house, can cause issues in a business’ workflow as people manually transfer data between various laptops, PCs and tablets.
An all-inclusive cloud system to keep your employees connected wherever they are and allowing for a quick and easy transition to home working in the event of future lockdowns is an ideal solution.
What are the benefits of a hosted desktop, cloud solution?
The facilitation of agile working solutions is a large benefit of the deployment of a hosted desktop solution. It not only allows employees to be versatile when they work, but it also makes it easier for situations where location flexibility is required, for example – working with a phone, tablet or laptop whilst out of the home or office.
An increase in productivity can often be seen with the implementation of a good, hosted desktop service. Users spend less time sharing files between devices and machines, as well as having automated back-up processes for their files, which frees up more time for important work.
With more and more companies opting to make the switch to working from home permanent, rather than in-office work, they are not necessarily providing a dedicated desk for individual employees anymore. A hosted desktop solution would allow your organisation to utilise hot-desking, enabling staff to remain linked to their own desktop wherever they log in, with everything they need and are familiar with at their disposal.
The benefit of a desktop hosted solution is that it is optimised to work with any computer. This makes the investment in a desktop hosted solution less of a risk, as it will remain in place regardless of any future changes in IT hardware and will continue to work efficiently and can easily be developed in-line with your business’ growth.
You can be assured of the best data security precautions.
Some people are worried about not having their data on a physical machine that they have access to. The idea of entrusting all of their data to the cloud is daunting and they have concerns over data breaches and cyber security.
A hosted desktop provides you with a user-specific desktop that is freely available anywhere you need it. Only UK data centres are used to host the hosted desktops.
You can rest assured that your data is in safe hands as security is the number one priority for the data centres that are used and, with disaster recovery and business continuity built into our solution, you can be sure that your desktop will remain fully accessible wherever you are.
Also, as those of us in the IT industry know full well, a vast amount of security or data issues are not malicious and can be put down to simple user error. So, on top of other security measures put in place, our hosted desktop comes with 365 days of backups that you can restore your data back to, should you accidentally delete those important files.
Is a hosted desktop solution worth investing in?
Many people are concerned about the cost of using hosted desktop services, particularly those with small businesses. It is often assumed that hosted desktops worth it only when you are purchasing the system for tens to hundreds of users.
On the contrary, not only is getting a Pearce IT Secure Desktop flexible in price and can be installed from as little as 3 users, but it is also easy to manage and upgrade, keeping your hosted desktop running fast, no matter it’s age.
For both hardware and software, hosted desktop solutions provide extra security. You are protected from data breaches when work phones, tablets or laptops are lost during commutes or onsite working, as physical data is not being stored directly on the device. Backed up and stored data on hosted desktop solutions are protected by more advanced security measures than most in-house systems might have. A Pearce IT Secure Desktop is a cost-effective solution to provide your staff with flexible working, whether they are working from home, the office, on site or from any other location. For users, a Pearce IT Secure Desktop is almost indistinguishable from a local desktop on their computer. In fact, the only real difference to a local desktop is that any data accessed or stored by the user is done so via the hosting platform rather than the device itself.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Pearce IT Secure Desktop and how it could benefit you and your business, get in touch!