Every company has workers that work on the move. They work while at home, they work in the train, bus, metro etc. Employees do need to complete their tasks from anywhere and also when they’re located across multiple locations or multiple continents, they need to connect remotely to their workspace and work on their apps.
Employees can login from many different devices such as MacOS, Windows Desktop, Web, iOS (tablets) or even Android.
A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) is the solution to flexibility, scalability and cost. Each worker can connect to his/her own virtual desktop and find the apps like working within the company’s environment.
While VDI is not new as technology, it has been always very costly upfront investment. VDI is also known as virtual desktops, hosted desktops, or Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS).
With the DaaS offerings there is no upfront cost, but monthly payments only. These desktops are hosted in cloud location instead of in on-prem location.
The Biggest obstacles for DaaS Implementation
One of the first breaks from mass DaaS implementation probably fear and also not enough knowledge and expertise from the technical perspective. Many admins simply fear to take the responsibility and try to jump into the DaaS bandwagon, or the organization is an SMB without an IT staff to put things in place.
Another factor to list as a possible break can be perhaps locations where there is not enough bandwidth but those locations are pretty much disappearing as we do have corporate access via fiber optics for very reasonable price. But as I said, there might still be such a location.
Steps for successful setup of enterprise cloud desktops
One of the first steps is to find reliable, price-friendly DaaS provider that offers cloud desktops and also that offers a test run during couple of days. One of those providers I was introduced to recently is Anunta Desktop Ready that might interest you.
They offer a test run during 7 days so you can order and configure couple of desktops and let see how the latency and speed goes. If those two elements have good results from your location, then you can expand the number of desktops depending on the number of employees needed to have remote access to your corporate desktop.
Anunta does provide onboarding too, which mean that their engineers will help with configuration, migration. They will look at the needs you have and propose an architecture which will integrate with your existing network architecture.
From the security standpoint if you’re using Microsoft Active Directory (AD) within your organization, the cloud expansion will allow your remote workers to be authenticated via AD and access your corporate shares and applications from the cloud desktop.
Anunta will install and configure Azure Active Directory Domain Services at Azure including creating a new tenant for your organization.
Azure AD is Microsoft’s cloud-based identity and access management service that can be integrated with your on-prem environment where you’re running your Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS) for your organization.
Anunta also helps to install and configure master image VM with software your worker’s needs.
The virtual desktops are executed from East US location where the remote users can login from any country or any location.
The Desktop Ready offer include also a 24/7 support where SMBs can get help without the need of a specialized IT consultant or IT staff. Anunta takes care of the problems via helpdesk accessible 24/7.
Is this offer also good for Small Business?
Absolutely. DaaS as such is even more suitable for small business because small companies does not have much money to invest in VDI so if there are no upfront costs, it’s much more financially acceptable for the IT directors and decision makers.
Anunta has a cutting-edge cloud technology vie Microsoft Azure and Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) offering. They have IT expertise where SMBs do not.
Anunta Desktop Ready offers managed WVD’s as per your requirement for Light, Medium, Heavy or Power users either multi-session or a single session Windows 10 environment. Check our previous posts How Anunta’s Managed Desktops Works and Anunta Desktop Ready VDI architecture on Microsoft Azure.
You can even use up to two monitors at the same time when connecting via the remote desktop client.
Final Words
The pandemic situation is here to stay for some time. The new normal is work from home. More and more organizations are willing to succeed and work from home for their employees is simply the best and cost-effective solution.
Cloud desktops make remote working much simpler as the actual remote connection just involves verification and login without the need for additional hardware. Usually a Bring your own device (BYOD) apply, but the company policy can provide workers with company devices as well.
Usually, setup like this is very useful when during times that we’re witnessing right now so workers can carry on as normal from home.
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