By Sam | February 4, 2013

What are the Key Hosted Virtual Desktop Features?

Virtual Desktop Features

If you are the type of company that believes in build vs buy – this post is probably not for you. If however, you believe knowing and focusing on your core competencies is the strength of your company – than read on.

This post will provide an overview of the top features of Hosted Virtual Desktop and why it might be a good fit for your business.

Your Employees can work from anywhere

Mobility is inherent in the concept of hosted virtual desktop. Your desktop is completely hardware agnostic. All you and your workforce need is SOME kind of internet connected device. You can connect using smart phones, tablets, chrome books, laptops, desktops, thin clients, and it doesn’t matter if they are Windows, Macs, Linux, or Androids. You need only be able to run some version of the Citrix Receiver Application.

Hosted Virtual Desktop Increases Security

Your applications and data are run and stored in our secure community cloud platform. It reaches your virtual desktop via encrypted screen shots. Your interactions with the virtual desktop are then transmitted back to our datacenters where then then send back the result of your commands over encrypted screen shots. That’s it. It’s that simple. The real beauty of this model is none of your actual data ever crosses the internet or gets stored on your machine. Even if some ambitious hacker decided they wanted to snag a screen shot out of the air, they are encrypted. When mobile equipment is lost or stolen you need only replace it, not worry about compromised data.

Management Portal

OGO’s Cirrus Control panel allows anybody at your organization to add or remove employees and applications. You retain complete control over your virtual desktop environment. From the control panel he/she can provision new accounts, create different account templates (accounting, sales, executive, etc) add or remove applications (Custom or standard), change/reset passwords, and add or remove other features. The really great part is they never need to contact us or wait for us to react to a request. Our system will automatically notice the change in services and update that month’s bill with the addition or subtraction prorated to the day of the month the change was made. Want MS Office Professional for a day? Go for it. Remove it the next day and only be charged for 1 day of Office Pro.

Better Uptime and Redundancy

With mirrored cloud platforms in Tier 2/3 Datacenters in Phoenix, AZ and Hagerstown, MD and an amalgamation of 20Gb/s network connectivity we have the platform needed to keep your virtual desktops and applications running no matter the status of your physical locations. You need only be able to access an internet connection and we will handle the rest. In the case the internet is out at your location, the Virtual Desktop can operate effectively on even just a 3G cell phone connection on an iPad.

Improved Performance

Have you ever opened a huge Excel Spreadsheet or Access Database on your local machine and gone for a cup of coffee to kill time while it opened? Not on the Virtual Desktop. Virtual desktop environments dynamically assigns resources as needed, while most providers will assign you a set amount of resources (8 CPUs, 16Gb RAM, etc) There is no set amount of resources assigned to your company. Instead all of our hosted virtual desktop clients can pull compute, memory and storage needs from a huge pool of shared resources instantly and on demand allowing for fluid performance on even the largest of documents and tasks.

Our next installment of the Virtual Desktop series will discuss the infrastructure that supports the platform in greater detail. Here is Monday’s article describing our blog series on Virtual Desktop.