How do hosted desktops save money?
Immediately cut costs by around 50%, or £900 per
user
For businesses of any size, the
current economic climate is proving challenging, but particularly
so for small to medium-sized enterprises. In order to survive in
these uncertain times, flexibility and adaptability are key
qualities. However, change needn't be scary, difficult, expensive
or time-consuming - in fact, streamlining your business processes
could be one of the best things you have ever done.
Hosted desktops remove the
burden of managing individual desktop environments in-house,
leaving you to concentrate on growing your business. Information is
stored in our secure data centres and delivered over the internet,
so your own, fully customisable desktop can be accessed wherever
you are, whenever you want. It is exactly the same as using a PC -
simply plug into your broadband connection and you're ready to
go.
Headline cost comparison over 3 years
With budget cuts seemingly an
inevitable fact of life these days, many organisations are
recognising the cost benefits of moving to cloud computing
services. With only a simple monthly charge per desktop, you can
scale your provision up or down as needed.
| Costs |
Hosted Desktop |
Regular PC |
|
Hosted Desktop
|
£2,449.52 |
£5,446.12 |
| Hardware&Peripherals |
£449.00 |
£638.18 |
| Hardware Warranty\ Support |
£0.00 |
£150.00 |
| Microsoft Office 2007 |
£0.00 |
£299.00 |
| Virus Scanning Software |
£0.00 |
£119.97 |
| Backup Software |
£0.00 |
£119.85 |
| Electricity |
£236.52 |
£1419.12 |
| Managment Costs |
£0.00 |
£2,700.00 |
Total Saving = £2,997.60 over three years
Costs incurred by regular PCs
include capital expenditure, management, power and more. Click
here to download a calculator to work out your savings, and see
how these figures are derived.
Energy / power
Rising energy costs, combined with
government-imposed financial penalties on carbon production, make
cutting your power consumption a vital consideration. However, as
all of your data and applications are stored in our
energy-efficient data centres, hosted desktops allow you to make
significant savings. Centralisation of computing resources is a way
to cut power consumption, as you will use only 10% of the power a
normal PC does.
Cost of buying PCs and software licenses, and installing,
maintaining and upgrading hardware
Do more with less - fight waste and
reduce overheads. We look after the software, so no management is
needed. Pay only for the resources you use and scale your IT
provision up or down almost instantly. Time = money, so this
simple, instant IT provision saves both.
Disaster recovery / backup
If your office is condemned, for
instance, and you cannot go back inside it, hosted desktops allow
you immediate access from another location - so you can go to any
other office and get working again, or work from home, a coffee
shop etc. And, with a virtual desktop accessed via a thin client,
there is no operating system on it, as well as no software or
moving parts. This means that crashes just don't happen.
Greater security means fewer financial losses
Cyber crime is on the rise -
identity theft, fraud etc. Hosted desktops let you keep on top of
the latest security developments without having to shell out for
expensive new programmes.