5 Important Benefits of Desktop as a Service

With the increase in trend of remote working culture, companies and organizations of all sizes are nowadays adopting desktop as a service (DaaS) solution to meet their digital workspace needs. It is a type of cloud computing service where the user’s desktop operating system runs on a virtual machine that is hosted by a cloud provider. The desktop operating system used is usually Windows or Linux and the cloud hosting can be either public, hybrid, or private.

The reason why every modern-day business is involved in using DaaS is that it helps overcome the challenges of traditional desktop and laptop systems and can serve as a platform to deliver virtual desktop infrastructure from clouds.  

Here we’ve listed 5 important benefits of DaaS which will further help the readers in understanding the reason why businesses are increasingly adopting DaaS to help them succeed on their digital journey.

1. Ease of Management: One of the most important and useful benefit provided by DaaS is that it provides businesses with the ability to easily manage and maintain the IT systems that are installed within the organization. Dealing with software issues can be very time consuming and often require the in-house IT team of the business to visit hundreds of devices. But with DaaS, this problem does not arise as all the users are running one of a few standard VM images stored in the cloud and only those few images need to be patched, have drivers updated, etc. Also, the maintenance work can be handled in the cloud infrastructure which eliminates the need to visit individual desktops for doing the administrative tasks.

2. Cost effective: This is another key benefit of utilizing DaaS. When compared with traditional workstations, the desktop as a service proves to very cost effective and affordable for long term as it reduces the total cost of ownership. The virtual desktop costs 2 times less than a traditional PC due to its longer life, absence of a local hard disk, and reduced power consumption.  

3. Increases security: With DaaS, the involvement of security risks is relatively low. Unlike, the traditional computer systems that are always prone to facing variety of security threats as these systems can get easily hacked, lost or stolen, with a virtual desktop, this is not the same case as these desktops have centralize updates at the remote location, continuous data backup and synchronization.  

4. Mobility: Another important advantage of DaaS is that it provides the benefit of mobility by allowing users to access the complete personal PC desktop experience from anywhere, using any device such as iPads, MacBook, tablets and other mobile devices, even including the existing desktops, laptops and thin clients. The DaaS also supports both Microsoft Windows and Linux-based operating systems on a device.  

5. Flexible: DaaS enables the virtual desktops to be implemented flexibly and scaled up quickly. Deployment of new software, applications, and updates also happens quickly on these desktops.  

Looking for a good operator to enjoy the benefits of desktop as a service? Empower ICT is the one you should trust! It is an Australian owned, leading managed IT services providing firm that specializes in delivering a wide range of managed IT solutions in Melbourne including remote desktop services, IT support services, cyber security services and IT audit services to all types of businesses located across Australia.  

For more info, call at 1300 850 210.  

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