Companies that have switched to hosted desktops have seen another perk, one that many businesses did not anticipate: an increase in business efficiency. Find out how switching to a hosted desktop solution can help your business be more efficient.

2. A hosted desktop solution has several advantages over the traditional
client / server in-house model. Some of these advantages include
reduced IT costs, increased security, better performance, and improved
mobility.
Companies that have switched to hosted desktops have seen another
perk, one that many businesses did not anticipate: an increase in
business efficiency. Find out how switching to a hosted desktop solution
can help your business be more efficient.
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3. What is a Hosted Desktop?
A hosted desktop is a desktop operating system that is stored on a hosted server
and delivered to an end-user device (such as a thin client, PC, laptop, tablet, or
smartphone) via an Internet connection. It appears and functions exactly like a
traditional desktop.
Which Industries and Business Benefit from Hosted Desktops?
Businesses of all sizes and from any industry can benefit from a virtual desktop
solution. Hosted desktops reduce IT costs, alleviate the challenges associated
with maintaining an in-house IT infrastructure, help increase mobility, and can
help businesses remain compliant with industry standards.
10 Ways a Hosted Desktop Solution Makes Businesses More Efficient
Here are 10 ways that your business can become more efficient if you move
your IT infrastructure to a virtual desktop hosting solution, as well as some
ways that set onthenetOffice hosted desktops apart from the rest.
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4. SCALABILITY
One of the great benefits of hosted services, such as hosted desktops, is that they are
scalable. What that means is that your infrastructure can start out to fit your business
today and scale up or down to accommodate your business’s growth. As your business
grows, your provider can add additional servers, desktops, and storage without
interrupting your day to day operation. Additionally, your desktops are fully customized
to reflect changing needs of the user (such as more processing power or more memory).
A virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) from onthenetOffice maintains efficiency even as it
expands or contracts with no downtime. Whereas drastic changes in use can sometimes
slow down a traditional server/workstation environment, one that is scalable allows the
addition of virtual resources to the active desktop in real-time so that the environment
performs optimally even during periods of large growth.
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5. BETTER PERFORMANCE
Hosted desktops often perform better and more efficiently than their traditional, local
desktop counterparts. A desktop environment that is constantly being monitored and
tuned for performance will always run faster ensure the highest level of user satisfaction
and efficiency. Performance tuning will decrease downtime which is often associated
with slower-running systems and applications found in a traditional desktop
environment. Instead of waiting for applications to launch or waiting for large files to
download, hosted desktop users can demand and receive instantaneous reactions from
their desktop..
onthenetOffice hosted desktops come equipped with SMX Speed Technology, a unique
combination of technologies, protocols, and practices that allows clients to launch their
desktops and applications in less than one second, drastically decreasing wait time and
increasing productivity, even on low-powered mobile devices such as Tablets, iPhones,
and iPads.
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6. INCREASED MOBILITY
One of the primary advantages of a hosted virtual desktop is that you and your
employees can securely access them from anywhere. Now that mobile devices such as
smartphones and tablets play a major role in daily business, it is becoming business-
essential that employees have secure access to their applications and data from multiple
sources.
Since a hosted desktop allows data and applications to be centrally located in a private
Cloud, users can access the exact same desktop from anywhere, making a hosted
desktop solution more productive than a traditional on-site desktop environment.
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7. COLLABORATION
It probably goes without saying that collaboration among employees makes the
workplace more efficient. Hosted desktops help improve collaboration and, therefore,
improve business efficiency.
With a hosted virtual desktop solution, all of the applications used by an organization are
virtualized and housed on an array of interconnected servers and desktops. AAny
employee with valid security credentials and permissions can access their desktop and
application they need from anywhere. This makes accessing, editing and saving files
extremely seamless since all files remain on the company storage system and allows
employees to work on the same documents without having to email them back and
forth.
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8. MANAGED BY THE PROVIDER
With desktop hosting, top tier providers such as onthenetOffice include managed
services as a part of their solution. Technical Engineers perform critical security updates
and system maintenance around the clock to ensure a business’s infrastructure is always
running optimally. Hosted desktop providers may also include 24x7x365 technical
support for a company’s desktop and business applications.
With onthenetOffice, all of our hosted desktop solutions come backed by a team of
experts who perform regular updates and system checks and are available 24x7x365 to
resolve any issues you may encounter.
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9. AUTOMATED BACKUP
In addition to managing your IT infrastructure, most hosted solutions providers also
include managed and automated backups. These backups ensure that your critical data
will not be lost in case of employee error (such as accidental file deletion).
Since all of your information is stored on your provider’s backup servers and is most likely
replicated and stored on other, geographically separated backup servers, you don’t have
to worry about wasting time trying to recover it or generating new data. onthenetOffice
features 3 geographically isolated data centers to protect your most valued information.
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10. CENTRALIZATION
With a traditional onsite client / server infrastructure, applications are housed on each
individual workstation and files are typically stored on one or more local servers.
Application updates or file maintenance means will mandate that every user’s
workstation on the network will need to be updated independently. With the hosted
virtual desktop model, however, centralized applications and data files are delivered to
each user’s desktop so that the roll out of an application update is simple, seamless and
occurs for all users at once.
A centralized desktop environment makes a business’s IT more efficient. Instead of having
to update each user’s individual application, the provider can deploy a single update to
the software on the client’s dedicated server. Additionally, the centralized nature of a
hosted desktop solution allows for greater flexibility; if a user’s endpoint workstation
fails, they can simply use another one to connect to their always-active hosted desktop.
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11. MORE FLEXIBILITY
A standard operating system has a dedicated, 1:1 relationship with its underlying
hardware. A hosted desktop is platform and device agnostic. That means that it can be
easily transferred from one unit of hardware to another; it can be accessed from any
device; and it can be created, deleted, or quarantined on demand.
Managing a hosted desktop infrastructure is more efficient because is allows you to
perform tasks quickly and effortlessly that would normally require extensive coding or
new hardware purchases.
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12. HOST ALL APPLICATIONS
Some software companies offer the standard client-server versions of their software,
where clients purchase and install the applications they need. Other companies offer
SaaS, where they host their own applications on the Cloud, so that they can be accessed
by the user through a web browser.
With a hosted desktop, however, you can install and run all of your applications on a
single desktop. You can access these applications from anywhere; simply sign on, and
access all your applications (including custom-built applications) from any of your hosted
desktops.
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13. REDUCE COST
While finances may not be the first thing businesses consider when they hear the word
“efficiency,” it is important for companies to spend their money efficiently. Hosted
desktops are often more cost-efficient than a traditional desktop for several reasons,
three of which are listed below.
1) hosted desktops do not require a large, upfront capital expenditure (CAPEX); once
implemented, a company only has to pay a low, flat monthly fee as an operating expense
(OPEX) to continue receiving its hosted desktops. 2) businesses will invest less in IT
support since hosted desktop providers like onthenetOffice, include technical support.
There is no need to hire someone to work in-house or an expensive IT contractor. 3) a
hosted solution extends the useful life of the already owned endpoint device. Since the
processing is all done at the provider lever, the local workstation or endpoint device
doesn’t have to be replaced until they completely fail. Desktop hosting solutions from
onthenetOffice are a great way for businesses to remain cost-efficient: they start as low
as just $1/day!
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14. CONCLUSION
Many businesses that have moved away from the traditional
workstation/server infrastructure to a hosted desktop environment have
found that they are much more efficient. By moving away from a locally
maintained IT environment into a hosted environment, users can securely
access their company desktop from any device, start from the same point
they stopped on, and can expect 100% uptime. These reasons alone
enable the company and it’s employees to be much more efficient by using
a hosted desktop.
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