It’s impossible to talk about today’s workplace without acknowledging the massive shift towards remote and flexible workspaces. Employees want the ability to answer email and video chat with colleagues from any location and using any device. While there was always a desire, the last few years have shown companies that the model could be productive and successful. Still, many organizations are still trying to accommodate the technical requirements of these remote or hybrid employees. Desktop as a service, also known by the acronym DaaS, may be the ideal solution.
Definition: Desktop as a Service
DaaS is a secure, cost-effective method of desktop virtualization. DaaS allows businesses to untether their operating systems and productivity software from any physical technology. Instead, companies can employ DaaS to access their virtual desktops via the cloud, which is distributed and managed through cloud services’ data centers.
DaaS solutions are differentiated from onsite software in several ways:
- Price Structure: Companies can avoid making advance hardware purchases, such as costly desktops and laptops. Instead, they pay cloud providers for any data, resources, and services that they actually use.
- Scalability: Cloud providers provide access to any amount of desktops on an as-needed basis – giving them the exact number of desktops they need, whenever and wherever the need may be.
- Outsourced Management: DaaS service providers offer ongoing maintenance, data storage, routine updates, backup support, and other desktop management for companies looking to outsource part of their operation. They can also manage clients’ desktops, applications, and security protocols.
What Can DaaS Do For Your Company?
There are numerous benefits of utilizing DaaS and desktop virtualization at your company.
- Remote work is more feasible: The increase in remote work scenarios requires a different approach to working with applications and data. DaaS allows IT teams to move data between platforms; and users to access the data they need from multiple machines, regardless of where their current desk sits.
- Opens up the potential of BYOD: In addition to liberating personnel from their office, DaaS permits employees to work on their own phones, tablets, and laptops – if that is what the company wants.
- Makes desktop management more intuitive: Outsourcing the configuration and management of virtual desktops will lessen the administrative load for your IT team, freeing their time for strategic growth and planning.
- Helps to increase data security: DaaS represents fewer potential security risks as the data resides in the cloud provider’s datacenter, not on your employees’ personal devices. If a device is compromised, lost, or stolen, it only needs to be disconnected from the cloud service.
- Reduces IT costs and spending: DaaS cloud solutions save companies money by shifting IT expenses from conventional on-premises hardware and software to cloud-based services and desktops. DaaS can operate on devices that need significantly less computing power than a standard laptop or desktop machine, saving IT budget dollars.
- Extends the life of outdated equipment: Businesses that don’t have adequate funds to upgrade all of their legacy machines can use DaaS to install a newer operating system. Accessing the more current operating system from the cloud is a more cost-effective method than replacing every piece of on-premises equipment simultaneously.
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