In today’s fast-paced digital environment, organizations constantly seek innovative tech solutions to enhance productivity, streamline operations, and reduce costs. Desktop as a Service (DaaS) has emerged as a game-changing technology, that addresses these needs by delivering cloud hosted virtual desktops to users, via the internet. ATSG’s DaaS offering provides a robust, secure, and scalable solution that transforms the way businesses operate.

This blog explores the multiple benefits of DaaS, highlights a few industry-specific use cases, and delves into the unique features that make ATSG’s DaaS solution stand out from the competition.

 

 

Unlocking the Benefits of DaaS for Businesses

Cost Savings and Efficiency

• Reduction in Capital and Operating Expenses

  Traditional IT setups require substantial upfront investments in hardware, and ongoing costs for maintenance and upgrades. DaaS eliminates these expenses by providing cloud hosted virtual desktops, allowing businesses to pay for what they actually use. This results in reduced capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating costs (OpEx).

• Increased Productivity and Reduced Downtime

  With DaaS, businesses can quickly provision and deploy virtualized desktops and applications, ensuring employees have seamless remote access to the tools they need, without any lag. This reduces downtime associated with hardware failures or software issues, improving productivity and business continuity (BC).

Simplified Management and Scalability

• Streamlined Desktop Management and Deployment

  DaaS centralizes the management of desktops, allowing IT teams to deploy, update, and manage desktops from a single interface. This reduces the complexity and time associated with physically managing individual desktops, especially in large and dispersed organizations.

• Rapid Scalability to Match Business Growth

  The ability to quickly scale resources up or down allows businesses to respond to changing needs, without over-provisioning or under-provisioning resources. ATSG’s high-performing global data center infrastructure, powered by Equinix, ensures that your DaaS environment can scale seamlessly as your business grows.

Enhanced Security and Accessibility

• Robust Security Features and Data Protection

  Multiple layers of security, including anti-virus, firewalls, malware and ransomware protection, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and 10 days of built-in Virtual Machine (VM) backups, all combine to ensure un-matched data integrity and cybersecurity. These features protect against threats and ensure business continuity (BC).

• Accessibility from Anywhere, on Any Device

  DaaS enables employees to securely access their cloud desktops from any location and on any device, promoting flexible work arrangements and improving productivity. This accessibility is crucial for businesses with remote or mobile workforces.

DaaS in Action – Industry Use Cases

 

 

Healthcare – Streamlining Patient Care

Healthcare organizations are leveraging DaaS to provide secure access to Electronic Health Records (EHRs) of patients, and ensure enhanced data protection, allowing seamless care delivery, regardless of location. DaaS solutions are also playing an instrumental role in delivering secure and compliant telehealth services.

Finance – Access to Secure Financial Services

Financial institutions benefit from DaaS by having secure access to sensitive financial data, meeting regulatory compliance requirements, and enhancing their overall disaster recovery (DR) capabilities. DaaS has enabled financial institutions to protect and manage their data more effectively.

Education – Empowering Remote Learning

Educational institutions utilize DaaS to support remote learning, by providing easily accessible online learning resources, secure online environments, and compatibility with a wide range of student devices. Schools, colleges and universities have adopted DaaS to enhance the learning experience for students, and make education more accessible as well as affordable.

ATSG DaaS Solutions – Built for Your Business Needs

Feature 1 – Secure and Reliable Desktop Delivery

ATSG’s DaaS solution excels in providing a secure and reliable virtual desktop experience. Our solution offers:

Multiple Layers of Security

Comprehensive protection through anti-virus, firewalls, malware, and ransomware protection, ensures your data is safe from cyber threats.

Multi-Factor Authentication – MFA

Adds an extra layer of security, ensuring only authorized users can access the DaaS environment, after successful authentication.

Built-in Virtual Machine (VM) Backups

Enjoy peace of mind with 10 days of built-in virtual machine backups, ensuring quick and easy restoration, in the event of data loss or corruption.

Feature 2 – Simplified User Management and Provisioning

ATSG’s DaaS solution offers seamless provisioning, monitoring and management of the environment, here’s how:

ATSGOne Cloud Manager

An intuitive tool for seamless provisioning, monitoring, reporting, optimization, and management of the entire DaaS environment, from a single interface. This ensures IT teams can effortlessly manage user accounts, virtual machine resources, and performance.

Optimized Resource Allocation

Intelligent resource allocation and optimization ensures that your DaaS environment runs efficiently and cost-effectively, delivering long term value to the organization.

Feature 3 – Scalability to Match Your Growth

ATSG’s DaaS solution is designed to scale with your evolving business needs. Key scalability features include:

Highly Advanced Global Data Center Infrastructure

Powered by Equinix, our state of the art global data centers provide the backbone for a scalable and reliable DaaS environment, allowing businesses to scale up or down, as and when needed.

The Auto-Scaling Feature of ATSG’s DaaS

Part of our ATSGOne Cloud Manager, the auto-scaling feature automates the provisioning of additional VM resources, whenever pre-defined thresholds are reached, ensuring your operations continue smoothly, without interruption.

Conclusion

ATSG’s DaaS solution offers a comprehensive, secure, and scalable virtual desktop environment, that meets the dynamic needs of modern businesses. By reducing costs, enhancing security, simplifying management, and providing rapid scalability, our DaaS solution empowers organizations to focus on growth and innovation.

Recognized as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS), ATSG is committed to delivering top-tier cloud hosted virtual desktop solutions that drive business success.