Virtual Desktops
from £125/monthfor a virtual desktop environment.
Every business is different, so we configure our Virtual Desktop environments around your number of users, applications, storage requirements and security needs.
Speak to our team and we'll recommend a solution based on what your business actually requires, without trying to sell you infrastructure you don't need.
Work securely from almost anywhere
Virtual Desktops allow your employees to access their familiar working environment from almost any location with an internet connection. Users can connect from a laptop, desktop computer or other compatible device and continue working with the same files, applications and settings.
This can make Virtual Desktops particularly useful for businesses with remote workers, multiple offices, travelling employees or teams that regularly work between different locations.
Keep your business data in the UK
Your business data remains securely hosted within our UK data centres rather than being stored locally on employees' devices.
Our data centres are accredited to ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000 standards, while your Virtual Desktop environment can include encrypted storage, firewalls, multi factor authentication and other security measures appropriate for your organisation.
Keeping your infrastructure within the UK can also make it easier for businesses to understand and control where their data is being stored.
Fully Managed Virtual Desktops
You shouldn't need your own IT department just to operate a Virtual Desktop environment.
Our team manages the underlying server infrastructure for you, including monitoring, backups, server management and ongoing support. Your solution can also be configured around the particular requirements of your business rather than forcing you into a one size fits all package. The current service already includes onsite and offsite backups, 24/7 monitoring, flexible plans, server management and a dedicated account manager.
Greater control over your business computers
Managing dozens of individual computers can quickly become difficult, particularly when employees work remotely.
With Virtual Desktops, your users' working environments can be centrally managed. This can make it easier to:
- Control who can access your systems and data
- Manage user accounts and permissions
- Apply Windows and security updates
- Provide access to business applications
- Protect company files from being stored on personal devices
- Add or remove users as your workforce changes
- Maintain consistent working environments across your organisation
- Improve security for remote working
Remote working can introduce additional security risks when employees are accessing company information from laptops, home computers or different locations.
Virtual Desktops help reduce this risk by keeping your important applications and business information within the hosted environment. Employees remotely interact with their desktop rather than needing to keep all of the company's data directly on the device they are using.
Additional security measures such as MFA, firewalls and access controls can also be implemented depending on your requirements.
Scale as your business changes
Your Virtual Desktop environment can grow alongside your business.
New users can be added without needing to install and configure an entirely new computer environment each time somebody joins. Equally, desktops can be removed when employees leave or requirements change.
Protect against lost or stolen devices
One of the biggest advantages of a Virtual Desktop is that the employee's device doesn't have to be the primary location for your company's data.
If a laptop is lost, stolen or damaged, the user's Virtual Desktop and business files remain within your hosted environment. The employee can connect again from a replacement device and continue working straight away and no data can be recovered from the stolen laptop, as its not held on the device.
Backups included
Your business systems need more than somewhere to run; they also need to be recoverable if something goes wrong.
Our Virtual Desktop environments include onsite and offsite backups, helping protect your business against hardware failure, accidental data loss and other unexpected problems.
Ideal for businesses that
Have remote or hybrid workers
Give employees secure access to their work wherever they are based.
Operate from multiple locations
Provide everyone with a consistent desktop environment without maintaining separate infrastructure at every site.
Handle sensitive information
Keep important company information within a centrally controlled UK hosted environment.
Want to reduce reliance on office servers
Move business desktops and applications into professionally managed data centre infrastructure.
Need older or specialist business applications
We can design Virtual Desktop environments around software that may not be suitable for conventional cloud applications.
Don't have their own IT team
Let our Staffordshire based technical team manage the underlying server infrastructure for you.
What is a Virtual Desktop?
A Virtual Desktop is a cloud environment that hosts and manages desktops from a central server.
Virtual desktop environments allow businesses to take greater control of their devices by providing the latest security and OS patches, ensuring all documents are accessible. In turn, end-users have the tools to boost productivity and collaboration. All data never leaves the environment, so it's extremely useful when data security is key, allowing sensitive data to remain in the UK.
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High quality hardware
We work with a range of suppliers to bring you the best is hardware.
Moving doesn't need to be complicated.
Our technical team can help plan your Virtual Desktop environment around the way your business already works. We can help migrate users, files and applications and configure the new environment before your team moves across.
Rather than simply supplying you with a server and leaving you to configure it, we work with you to make sure the environment is suitable for your business from day one.