Work from any location. The ongoing shift from on-premises to remote working was only accelerated by the COVID-19 outbreak. Fast Company anticipated that more than 50% of the workforce would be working remotely by 2020 even before the epidemic pushed workers home; the pandemic brought that percentage closer to 100% for several firms. BYOD policies impose pressure on security, application compatibility and access, and ensuring that devices are patched and updated because employees frequently work from home using these policies. All of these problems are solved with cloud desktops, which also let workers operate from any location.
Contractors and other sporadic users are frequently excluded from company access policies, leaving them with little choice but to rely on email or accept an invitation to utilize a collaborative platform. This is not only ineffective, but it may also result in the exfiltration of confidential or legally required data. Contractors may have dangers if they are given complete access to company resources by some businesses. For firms that work with hundreds or thousands of contractors every day, this might turn into a significant issue. With the usage of cloud desktops, an organization can quickly grant access to other parties or other users, but only to a very limited range of data and apps. With cloud desktops, contractor computers can be deprovisioned as soon as the contract is finished, negating the requirement to offer unrestricted access.
Cloud desktops can help in a variety of ways during an acquisition, from supporting “deal rooms,” where members of both organizations can share access to documents and applications relevant to the transaction, to allowing an IT organization to quickly provision desktops for a large number of new employees acquired as a result of a deal closing. This also increases productivity and makes it possible for newly hired teams to get up and running right away because teams may keep working on their current devices while getting accustomed to the new cloud desktops.
Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR/BC). Ransomware attacks have brought to light how crucial it is to have a reliable backup, DR, and BC plan. Physical catastrophes like pandemics, floods, or storms might render a corporation inoperable or prevent important employees from arriving at the workplace to access digital resources. Cloud desktops offer relief from all of these possibilities by reducing the possibility of lost work and unintentional data disclosure that could result in a data breach.