Workplace Protection with Desktop Disaster Recovery

Don’t Let Disaster Affect Your Organisation

Have you thought about what would happen to your business should disaster strike? Could your workforce continue to perform daily tasks, or would your entire business come to a halt? Most organisations believe that in the event of a natural or manmade disaster their disaster recovery (DR) plan will keep them up and running.

In reality, many organisations’ disaster recovery plans don’t meet business requirements and don’t allow workers to access their desktops and applications when a disaster hits. This whitepaper explores the importance of having a desktop disaster recovery plan in place, and highlights how Hosted Network’s Desktop DR solution can effectively protect your business — ensuring workplace continuity and productivity.

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Can Your Business Survive Disaster?

No business is exempt from disaster — think of flooding, bushfires, severe storms and power outages. Whether or not your company is located in a region that seems increasingly prone to natural disasters or extreme weather, the chances are that your business has, or may find itself, without power or without the means for employees to commute to the office. Even if you personally don’t experience natural disasters, your business will be affected if the local power supplier has an outage or desktop equipment fails.

At the individual business level, work disruption can cost thousands of dollars per employee per day in lost productivity and opportunities. If your employees rely on physical desktops located in the office but are unable to be present due to weather conditions — or if a power outage restricts computer access — how will your employees access their applications and data? How will they keep your business going?

Introducing Desktop Disaster Recovery

Did you know it was possible to keep your organisation working when disaster strikes? With Desktop Disaster Recovery your business is exempt from downtime, allowing you to concentrate on running your company. Powered by VMware Horizon® DaaS, here are the key reasons why you should consider Desktop DR:

No workforce, no revenue

The majority of businesses don’t have a plan to maintain worker productivity during a disaster — and without productivity, your business can’t make money. With Hosted Network’s Desktop DR there is no staff downtime. Workers instantly access their desktop and applications via the cloud on any device — tablets, smartphones, laptops and PCs. The fully-functional cloud-hosted desktops look and operate just like your everyday system.

Cost effective

Physical Desktop DR is expensive from both a CapEx and OpEx perspective, and costs your business significant downtime. Hosted Network’s Desktop DR is a fraction of the cost — with Hosted Network managing the infrastructure, including security, backups and ongoing monitoring. Hassle-free for you and your business!

Simplicity

There’s no need to purchase any physical infrastructure — no equipment to buy and no maintenance costs. We handle the Desktop DR infrastructure so you can focus on growing your business. Simply reserve desktop capacity, have input into the recovery gold image, provision desktops into storage, and we integrate with your network. A single solution provides all the dedicated desktops, shared desktops and apps your workers need.

Tiered Plans for Your Tiered Workforce

All your workers are important and valued, however not every employee will require immediate access to their desktop when disaster strikes. Some companies recognise that their executives and sales team are most critical to keeping the business running, whereas online retailers may rely heavily on their IT and customer service team. Our tiered plans let you mix and match workplace recovery SLAs of 6, 24 and 48 hours:

On-Demand Recovery

Forget worrying about whether your workers’ vital resources are up-to-date. With Hosted Network, your on-demand desktops are already configured with the corporate image, apps and always-on connectivity needed to access resources on the corporate network. Fully documented SLAs and integrated production support ensure you will recover successfully. When you’re ready to activate desktops, simply notify Hosted Network and take as many — or as few — of the desktops you have on standby, as required for the situation at hand.

Conclusion

Your business shouldn’t have to go down for hours or days at a time due to natural or manmade disasters. Hosted Network puts Desktop DR within reach of any organisation by delivering affordable and reliable cloud-hosted desktops and apps, recovered at the speed of the cloud. Protect your business and guarantee workforce continuity — don’t let your business fall victim to the next disaster.

About Hosted Network

Everything we do is based around building solutions for our partners to enable them to grow and succeed.

Starting off as a traditional MSP in 2003 and launching a number of direct to market cloud offerings, we quickly gained traction in the SMB market and were approached by a number of other MSPs asking if we could provide our services at a wholesale level.

We quickly realised a gap in the market for wholesale cloud services designed for MSPs to grow their service offering and reach new markets. In 2013, Hosted Network transitioned to an entirely channel-only model, working hand-in-hand with MSPs to grow their business and win new deals.

Since then, our success is credited to and driven by the success of our partners. This has led to us adopting a simple mantra of BUILD – GROW – SUCCEED. Building successful partnerships and solutions, growing together, succeeding together.