Scenario: Budget constraints
One problem faced by all businesses, now more than ever, is budget constraints. Whilst demand for the latest IT services continues to increase, it's becoming ever more difficult to get CapEx sign off for IT projects.
Solution:
No capital expenditure needed! - all Cloudserve's solutions are provided on a simple, per user monthly subscription. This means no capital expenditure is required, all costs are transparent and predictable, and you only pay for what you use.
Scenario: Application upgrade due
Most businesses want to stay up to date with the latest applications in order to benefit from their new features. However, application upgrades tend to be a very inefficient, cumbersome, management-heavy and CapEx-intensive process. Moreover, there are normally problems encountered with individual users not wanting to upgrade their applications, and therefore having to be catered for separately.
Switch to software on demand - instead of rolling out new applications when it's time to upgrade, moving to software on demand can provide a rapid and cost effective means of achieving the same end. Also, because it's not an 'all or nothing' model, if you've got individual users who are reluctant to change, they can continue using their old applications as before.
Scenario: Remote Workers
Businesses of all sizes are increasingly looking to enable remote workers, both those on the road and those wanting to work from home for some or all of their working week. This can present serious challenges to IT teams, who have to provide the platform to make this possible.
Anywhere access - hosted desktops can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection, be it the office, at home, an internet cafe or even abroad. No matter where users log on from, they're presented with their own individual desktop, meaning that, from an IT standpoint, it's irrelevant where they choose to work from. And, as no data ever actually leaves our data centres, they can do so with complete security.
Scenario: Business Continuity \ Disaster Recovery
Approximately 80% of businesses that suffer a severe IT failure close within 18 months and, even without such a catastrophe, any unplanned downtime can have a huge financial impact. However, whilst this creates an obvious need for business continuity provisions, building truly resilient, n+1 IT solutions is often prohibitively expensive.
Complete security and availability - we take advantage of the economies of scale we enjoy to deliver desktops that are completely secure, backed-up and disaster-proof, with guaranteed availability and 24/7 support from exclusively UK-based teams. Because your data is no longer tied to local hardware, even in the event of, say, an office burglary, all your data is completely safe and your desktops are still immediately accessible.
Scenario: Infrastructure constraints
Many SMBs wishing to host line-of-business applications and deliver them to their users using the likes of Citrix or Terminal Services are constrained by the limitations of their own infrastructure, such as a shortage of available space or insufficient server power.
State-of-the-art hosted infrastructure - businesses can escape the limits of their in-house infrastructure by using our grid computing model - and the virtually limitless computing power it offers - to host their own specific line-of-business applications.
Scenario: Time Pressures
With so many things to focus on, it's difficult for IT teams to find the time to implement new projects. Given that new solutions require rigorous research, finding reliable partners, lengthy sign-off and procurement processes, learning new technologies, then finally installing, configuring and deploying the solution, it's hardly surprising that this can be painfully cumbersome.
Instant, agile IT - hosted desktops can be deployed immediately, on any scale - they don't require hardware investment or CapEx, nor is it necessary to worry about choosing from multiple vendors or learning any new technologies. A standard hosted desktop can be delivered in minutes. All users need to know is their log-in and password and the experience is exactly the same as with a normal PC.
Scenario: Staff over stretched
Most IT teams have to spend a disparate proportion of their time dealing with the day-to-day headaches of managing, maintaining and supporting their users' desktops, leaving them too little time to concentrate on their true function of actively adding value to the business.
Let Cloudserve do the work - with hosted desktops from Cloudserve, you can let us take as much or as little of the day-to-day management off your hands as you like. We take care of all patching, maintenance and upgrades, and all desktops are supported by exclusively UK-based teams, 24/7.
Scenario: Lack of relevent software expertise in-house
Though SMBs tend to have in-house IT teams, there may be limits to their experience and expertise, particularly regarding individual applications. This means that training and familiarisation, amongst other things, have to be accounted for before any software can be deployed and properly supported. Solution
None needed - Software On Demand allows you to take advantage of Cloudserve's experience and expertise in delivering applications, taking the burden off your shoulders. Once delivered, our services are then SLA guaranteed and fully supported.
Scenario: Multiple locations
Many enterprise businesses have multiple offices/sites and need to maintain a consistent IT infrastructure between them. With the difficulties of mass managing desktop PCs across multiple locations, this consumes a large amount of time and resources.
Unified hosted infrastructure - among the key benefits of hosted desktops is the ease of mass management because all desktops reside centrally and yet can be accessed from anywhere. What's more, hosted desktops can integrate with your existing network to act as a seamless extension to your infrastructure, allowing you to pull together disparate locations.