Optimised Desktop

It’s not glamorous but the desktop is soaring up the priority list for IT departments.  Windows 7 adoption is on the increase and with the average PC age tipping the scales at 4.4 years, many estates are on borrowed time.   

Suddenly, the desktop is strategic again.  Decisions made now will influence the future for delivering IT services to your users.  Do you continue with traditional, proven fat clients or do you make the radical change to delivering desktops as a service from the data centre using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)? If you choose VDI what technology is right for you? The considerations are many:

Cost – the dynamics behind keeping and maintaining PCs compared to switching to alternative devices and managing apps and data centrally

User Experience – making sure users feel their new environment is familiar and does not detrimentally affect productivity

Availability – how to ensure your chosen mode of desktop delivery is resilient and always available

Remote Working – making sure that mobile workers are able to access the systems and data necessary to work remotely and on the move

Security – how will data be handled in the new environment to prevent leakage whilst ensuring accessibility and secure perimeters?

It’s critical to understand the pros and cons behind the options.  We’ll help you evaluate the choices, providing POC if necessary to ensure you’re 100% happy with your solution.  This is only a step however - we think of working through this process as optimising your desktop – for today, for tomorrow, and for the eventual arrival of the cloud.

Regardless we’ll be there to design, deploy, train and support your solution.  Where appropriate we can also offer some or all of our optimised desktop solutions as a cloud based managed service.