Our philosophy here at 500 is to ‘bring the big to the small’ in terms of offering the SME market what has previously only been accessible to larger enterprises. In assessing the suitability of a business’ IT infrastructure for business grade voice other areas where business benefits can be made are quickly highlighted. Following our research, we recognised that Hosted Desktop is such a service.

As such, we have aligned ourselves with, in our opinion, the only business grade provider of hosted desktop services.

Hosted desktop is a means of providing your business data and applications securely over via internet where business data and applications reside in a managed and secure data centre.

Hosted desktop has already been adopted by blue chip companies and leading financial institutions. The benefits are as follows:

• Negates need for servers and complex and expensive IT infrastructure
• Negates the need for expensive skill-sets / on-site network infrastructure specialists
• No capital expenditure or costly set-up fees
• A per user, per month fee with no fixed on long-term contracts
• The ease of roaming and distributed working
• Immediate business continuity (disaster recovery)
• Immediate provisioning for new users
• Minimal band width usage as only key clicks, mouse movements are transferred upstream and a video image downstream
• Fully managed licensing and software upgrades
• 24/7/365 support
• Use of ‘thin clients’ - locked down thin clients may be utilised on existing site computers. Thin clients are inexpensive and may offer superior security.