3 Advantages of Switching to a Virtual Desktop

In business, efficiency is the key to success. To stay ahead, virtual desktops are being utilized to enhance productivity, streamline operations, and cut costs. After answering "What is a Virtual Desktop?", today we’re sharing 3 Advantages of Switching to a Virtual Desktop.

Virtual desktops empower employees to access their work environment from any device and location with an internet connection. This flexibility eliminates the constraints of a traditional office setup, enabling remote work, collaboration, and seamless access to business-critical applications. By breaking free from physical limitations, your team can achieve higher productivity levels, delivering tasks efficiently while balancing their work-life commitments.

Because hackers are coming up with more inventive and malicious ways to conduct data breaches and compromise company data, businesses are shifting to virtual desktops.

Previously, anti-virus software and firewalls were proven effective enough to trust. Today, however, they are only supplemental to strong network security. And with more businesses storing nearly all their information online, there is a lot to lose.

With a virtual desktop, user data is backed up online continuously, so corruption or loss of files is almost impossible. Using a virtual desktop requires the hacker to break into a company device and get their hands on an employee ID and password to crack into your company’s private servers.

Consider the risks inherent in employees using personal devices that contain company data. While it is not unreasonable for a work file to be copied to a personal device or flash drive so that the work can continue out of the office, this method throws open cybersecurity floodgates. Personal devices get lost, stolen, or compromised all the time. Once a file downloads to an unsecured device, it is out of the company’s hands and could literally go anywhere.

Using virtual desktops mitigates this issue by enabling secure data access while not allowing the sensitive files themselves to leave the corporate data center. 

Centering your company’s network around virtual desktops has a positive impact on infrastructure costs. Traditional IT infrastructure requires significant investment in hardware, maintenance, software licenses, and physical office space.

Switching to a virtual desktop allows you to eliminate some costs related to on-site servers, complex switching, hardware and software procurement, and decrease ongoing maintenance expenses. Moreover, the scalability of virtual desktops allows you to add or remove resources as needed whereby optimizing your IT costs.

As a customer-focused Managed Service Provider (MSP), PCS will partner with your organizations to identify your unique IT issues and implement permanent virtual desktop solutions to solve them. Setting up companies with the best virtual desktop technology in the industry results in savings on both time and maintenance costs for your network.

Contact us today for a free 30-minute technology consultation to learn more about how PCS can help your business make the switch.