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

Flexibility

• The ease of roaming and distributed working
• Immediate provisioning for new users
• Use of ‘thin clients’ - locked down thin clients may be utilised on existing site computers. Thin clients are inexpensive and may offer superior security.

Value

• No capital expenditure or costly set-up fees
• Save up to 40% against the cost of running traditional IT. No more wasted money
• A per user, per month fee with no fixed or long-term contracts
• Negates need for servers and complex and expensive IT infrastructure
• Negates the need for expensive skill-sets / on-site network infrastructure specialists
• Minimal band width usage as only key clicks, mouse movements are transferred upstream and a video image downstream

Security and Support

• 24/7/365 support
• Immediate business continuity (disaster recovery)
• Fully managed licensing and software upgrades
• 128-bit encryption
• Password authentication