Hosted Desktop, Virtual Hosted Desktop, Desktop as a Service (DaaS), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Cloud Hosted Desktop: there are many terms for it but what exactly is a Hosted Desktop and why do you need one?
Simply put, a Hosted Desktop is a desktop that is hosted in the cloud. The operating system, your applications and all your data is hosted in secure Data Centres and your local device merely serves to display the remote session that are you are accessing.
A Hosted Desktop looks and behaves exactly the same as your physical desktop computer, the only difference being where the actual processing is taking place and where the applications and data are stored.
Hosted Desktop Benefits
1. Work at any location or on the go
Your Cloud Hosted Desktop is available to access anywhere from any device. You don’t have to transfer files or install applications on a new device, you simply need an internet connection and you can log on to your desktop from home, in a coffee shop, in the office or anywhere else you find yourself and all your applications and data are available to you – you can securely access your Hosted Desktop from any desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.
2. Overcome Challenges of Hybrid & Remote Working
The shift to hybrid and remote working, which has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, has created challenges for organisations in IT infrastructure support for remote workers.
Hosted Desktops address these challenges instantly and with zero CAPEX required.
3. Enhanced Productivity & Performance
Hosted Desktops enable seamless hybrid and remote working from any location globally, dramatically increasing productivity. Being out of the office is no longer a barrier to teams collaborating and moving projects forward.
The user experience with a Hosted Desktop is vastly improved compared to using a traditional desktop computer. As the processing is carried out on high powered servers in the Data Centre, older hardware that will struggle to run many applications locally can be given a new lease of life as they are only required to display the screen scrapes from the Hosted Desktop.
Applications and documents open in an instant and data and downloads are carried out at high speed due to the sheer amount of bandwidth available in the Data Centre. This means no more time is wasted waiting for large documents to download or for applications to open or process data.
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