DAAS HELPS YOU MANAGE THE RISKS THAT NATURALLY COME WITH GIVING YOUR STAFF THE FREEDOM TO WORK ANYWHERE AND ON ANY DEVICE . and the organisation ’ s data is securely stored and protected against data loss or device theft . It is an advantage in terms of Business Continuity and security .

PRASHANTH GJ , CEO AT TECHNOBIND

Desktop-as-a-Service has been around for many years now – almost over 15 plus years . It had not really taken off all these years , for various reasons ranging from bandwidth constraints to limitations of the technology , which ended up in a very poor user experience . It wasn ’ t just the user experience that hampered large-scale adoption of DaaS . Although today the cloud will seem an obvious choice , there was widespread reluctance to move corporate data on to cloud infrastructure in the early days of hosted desktops . But things have changed today – many companies I have been speaking to already have a ‘ cloud-first ’ strategy in place . But the most significant development is the black swan event of the pandemic which is bringing about a major change in work environments across the world .

With the WFH here to stay and corporates seeing obvious benefits coming out of it , DaaS is one strategy that CIOs will look to take care of some of the challenges that a WFH may bring about . Control and security are among the top advantages that DaaS gives and with employees working from diverse locations , the IT never had control on the kind of networks being used to access corporate data or , for that matter , devices and the environment from which employees were accessing corporate data . DaaS helps you manage the risks that naturally come with giving your staff the freedom to work anywhere and on any device . It enables you to control the essentials such as data access and compliance without being overly restrictive . You no longer have to worry about what data is held on a user ’ s device as the data remains in the data centre at all times . This gives you control over all company assets because access can be revoked with the touch of a button . DaaS moves the security risk from hundreds of end-user devices and puts it all into the controlled and managed environment of a data centre . Lost or stolen laptops no longer provide a security risk . No data is on the local machine . As DaaS removes the need to create VPNs to access applications and data held by the company , it also removes the problem of users trying to bypass the security in the belief that it will make their life easier . �

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