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IT teams that need to be confident they
can enable a large number of users to work
remotely at the drop of a hat, the solution
is ideal. As many organisations discovered,
these solutions make it possible to set up a
remote user in under an hour.
Simplifying service provisioning
with HCI and Edge
IT teams are able to quickly add new nodes
as the remote workforce swells by rolling
out a HCI and Edge-powered VDI solution
and by rolling these back again once
demand drops. Designed to be managed
from a central interface, IT staff can
manage and scale everything – compute,
storage, networking – as required from a
central console. Alongside making it easy to
manage backups for each individual user,
the addition of Edge Computing systems to
VDI solutions also gives IT teams powerful
automated Disaster Recovery capabilities
such as replication, file-level recovery and
snapshot scheduling, which is absolutely
vital in a robust business resilience strategy.
Finally, Edge Computing platforms eliminate
the latency and bottleneck performance
issues previously associated with VDI
technologies. IT teams can more easily
maintain and manage growing desktop
workloads, all while assuring the outstanding
desktop experience that users expect.
Securing the Edge
Maintaining the security stance of the
extended enterprise also becomes easier
for IT teams using today’s modern VDI
solutions. Using multifactor authentication
to give users access to their email, files
and applications, IT teams can remotely
monitor user profiles, log users out and
receive automated alerts on potentially
suspicious activities. Furthermore,
sensitive data always stays within the
corporate network and is never exposed
to employees’ private networks through a
VPN connection.
Similarly, BYOD strategies that eliminate any
need to deploy IT to home-based employees
become a risk-free option as users can
securely connect to their personalised
desktop using any device they choose.
Reassessing the future of
business resilience
There are a whole host of considerations
for businesses to address when it comes to
protecting employees and assets should
disaster strike. Maintaining business
resilience while accelerating Digital
Transformation has jumped to the top of
many organisations’ agendas following
recent experiences, and a large majority
are completely re-evaluating current
systems and plans in order to ensure they
are best prepared for an ever-evolving
threat landscape.
Part of this strategy must include a
watertight plan for mobilising work
from home with immediate effect. Now,
businesses must ensure they have platforms
in place that can be relied on to deliver this
for the foreseeable future. •
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