As digital footprints increase the need for employees, partners and other vendors to have remote access to company environments continues to evolve. Traditional solutions such as file sharing and VPN access have extreme limitations. Not only are companies challenged with controlling the flow of data and information from their critical systems, most platforms are not configured or equipped with the ability to ensure connecting systems are secure before trusting them with full network access.
Combined with the increased demand from younger digital workers expecting not only time but location flexibility, organizations need a solution that enables both the use of corporate and personally owned devices while also having best practices in security and data asset management.
Desktop as a Service, also known as DaaS, is a way to provide a virtual desktop to remote users. These virtual desktops (VDI) can leverage traditional network connectivity methods while being hosted within a secure, scalable, and resilient datacenter.
Many of the benefits of using VDI or DaaS solutions is that it enables the enterprise to control where data assets live, while also ensuring that systems with direct access to critical digital platforms are compliant and secure.