How to harness the potential of DaaS to fuel business agility and scalability

Accops
May 31, 2023

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, enterprises continuously seek ways to adapt, innovate, and grow. One key aspect of this growth is the need to scale operations efficiently and cost-effectively. As technology continues to reshape how businesses operate, a new concept called Desktop as a Service (DaaS) has emerged as a game-changing solution for enterprises to achieve scalability and agility. In this blog, we will delve into the context and scenarios surrounding this innovative technology, the challenges businesses face today, and how DaaS helps to solve these problems.

Context and scenario: The digital transformation

Over the past decade, businesses have experienced significant digital transformations, with cloud-based services becoming the backbone of modern enterprise operations. The shift towards cloud computing has provided businesses with a range of benefits, including the ability to access data and applications from any location and the ease of scaling IT infrastructure on demand.

The problem: Business scaling challenges

As businesses scale, they face a myriad of challenges, which include:

Increasing IT infrastructure costs: Scaling a business typically involves expanding the IT infrastructure, such as servers, storage, and networking, leading to higher costs and maintenance requirements.
Data security and compliance: As businesses grow, they must ensure that their data remains secure and compliant with industry-specific regulations.
Limited IT resources: As businesses expand, they may need help finding, hiring, and retaining skilled IT professionals to manage and maintain their growing infrastructure.
Hybrid workforce management: With the rise of hybrid work, businesses must ensure that their employees can securely access data and applications from any location, which can be challenging to implement and manage.

The solution: Desktop as a Service (DaaS)

DaaS is a cloud-based solution that enables businesses to deliver virtual desktops and applications to users on any device, anywhere. With DaaS, the service provider manages and maintains the virtual infrastructure, reducing the need for businesses to invest in and manage their IT infrastructure. Below are some of the benefits that DaaS offers to address the challenges stated above:

Cost-effective scaling: DaaS allows businesses to scale their virtual desktops and applications on-demand without investing in expensive hardware and infrastructure. This can lead to significant cost savings, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Enhanced security and compliance: With DaaS, businesses can centralize their data and applications in the cloud, making it easier to implement robust security measures and comply with industry-specific regulations. In addition, DaaS providers often offer built-in security features, such as encryption and multi-factor authentication, to further enhance data protection.
Simplified IT management: DaaS shifts the responsibility of managing and maintaining the virtual infrastructure to the service provider, freeing up valuable IT resources for businesses to focus on strategic initiatives.
Seamless hybrid workforce management: DaaS enables businesses to provide secure access to virtual desktops and applications for users working remotely, regardless of location or device, making it easier to manage a distributed workforce.

Introducing Accops Managed Desktop (AMD)

Accops Managed Desktop is a fully managed, all-in-one Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution, allowing organizations to deliver secure office PCs on the cloud while reducing operational expenses by 25% and decreasing support time by four times (4X). Unlike other DaaS providers, Accops provides an enterprise-ready remote work infrastructure with integrated zero trust network access (ZTNA), multi-factor authentication (MFA), productivity monitoring, endpoint compliance checks, and data protection capabilities.

Why choose AMD?

Accops DaaS: Strikes the perfect balance between security and simplicity.
Comprehensive managed services: Expert services for managing the VDI environment.
Kiosk-based VDI with data security: Strong data loss prevention (DLP) features to block copy-paste, print-screen, screen-sharing, data download, printing, and restrict user internet access.
Watermarking: Customizable watermarks can be added to the VDI to deter data theft.
Built-in audit trails and productivity reports: Detailed audit logs revealing who accessed what, when, from where, and for how long.
Enhanced authentication: Integrated facial authentication and continuous user monitoring.
Cost reduction through flexible power management: Automated shutdown of idle virtual machines and customizable plans for workdays, weekends, and holidays.
Thin client support: Seamless integration with Linux-based thin clients and zero clients, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) by 40% compared to traditional desktops.

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