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Virtual desktops remove the need for 'traditional' desktop PC’s in the office environment, and reduces the cost of providing the IT services that your business needs. A virtual desktop, provided as a cloud service, looks and behaves like a regular desktop PC, but the software and data you use are hosted in a Firstnet Data Centres. You access your hosted desktop as a cloud service securely over an internet connection from anywhere in the world via an existing PC or laptop or, for maximum cost efficiency, a specialised device called a thin client.
It's a simple idea. Instead of your business dealing with the costs and risks of installing and maintaining the hardware and software that is needed, Firstnet Virtual Cloud provides round the clock access to desktops and applications as a cloud service. Hosted desktops give you all the benefits of a sophisticated and responsive IT infrastructure, but at a fraction of the cost of the traditional model. From day one of your relationship with us you will benefit from ready-to-use solutions and a reduction in expense, especially as your business grows and changes.
Our solution gives you the freedom and cost efficiency of a hosted desktop without any hassle, all delivered securely at high speed over the network. Cloud computing and cloud services lets you decide which parts of your IT infrastructure you want to manage directly or change. Powerful workgroup features such as Active Directory are also available to get your team working together quickly and efficiently.
Each hosted virtual desktop is activated within hours, so you can start work almost immediately! Additional power, software and features can be easily added, meaning you only have to pay for what you need, when you need it.
Savings can be made almost immediately through reductions in capital costs, power, management and other associated soft costs, which can add up to thousands of pounds - even for a small businesses..
Firstnet’s Virtual Desktop Cloud offers a basic, powerful hosted desktop model which you can easily customise and extend. Whether you are a small business with 5 users or a larger business with 500, you can benefit from options such as active directory domains, VPN connectivity, LAN extension, file and resource sharing, collaboration and productivity tools - everything that you would normally have access to on your office network.
With our secure, corporate-class IT system, you get a complete remote hosted desktop that allows you and your staff to login to your desktop from any location in the world, with full security.
Arm your sales teams, global offices, home workers and managers with a powerful, accessible system that safeguards your data from hackers, viruses, loss and theft.
Disaster recovery is essential in todays business world and with your data hosted in secure data centres, you can rest assured that your data is in safe hands day and night with strict security protocols and safeguards to ensure that your business data and applications are available 24 hours a day.
Our hosted desktop systems are powered by Terminal Services and Citrix technology. Terminal Services is Microsoft based technology and is very suited to smaller organisations due to the much lower pricing, whereas Citrix is suited to larger organisations and corporate companies. We are the only company that offers both Terminal Services and Citrix solutions, giving customers more choice.
