The top benefits of Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop
- Centralized, simplified management: One of the biggest advantages is that everything is essentially managed in a central location. This means end-users are not required to hand over their devices and wait for updates to be installed. Instead, new versions of the OS or applications can simply be deployed to the central desktop image, which is in turn made available to all end-user devices.
- Accessibility: One of the key end-user benefits is that employees can access their virtual desktop images using devices like laptops, smartphones, and mobiles. Also, due to the unique capabilities of Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop, end-users can access software solutions to which they may not have had access in the past.
- Flexibility: Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop can help enterprises become more agile. With Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop, businesses can quickly get access to new VMs for temp or seasonal employees, consultants, and for development and testing purposes.
- Workforce mobility: This might, by far, be the most obvious advantage of deploying Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop. Given that the desktops in a Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop architecture are hosted virtually, end-users can access them from anywhere in the world, on pretty much any device, provided they have internet connectivity. This typically results in increased flexibility for both employees and businesses. For employees, this will mean increased morale and productivity. And, when Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop is coupled with technologies (such as VPNs) that allow access to local Cloud Hosted Virtual Desktop networks from remote locations, businesses will also be able to employ a diverse workforce that is not restricted by location, thanks to virtualization technologies.
- BYOD: Since virtual desktops are hosted on a central server in a remote location, the device that the end-user uses to connect to the network to access the virtual desktop is of no consequence. Thus, users can essentially use any device they like to access their virtual desktops. Given that the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend has seen a major uptick among organizations, it is expected that businesses, going forward, will only want more and more of their employees to use their personal devices to connect to the network (for at least one or a few applications).