Challenge

Solution

Benefit

The cost of delivering IT services to your organisation needs to be reduced without impact service levels.

MDS’s Utility Desktop platform delivers a highly available virtual desktop environment hosted and managed by MDS, charged for on a “as used” monthly basis.

Capital costs associated with buying, licensing, hosting and maintaining desktops are drastically reduced. The overall cost of ownership is significantly reduced and service levels are often improved.

The reasons to virtualise the desktop estate have been indentified but resource/skill constraints, risk and budgets are delaying or preventing the project.

MDS’s Utility Desktop platform is a ready made solution that can be deployed rapidly with no risk or impact on your IT resources.  You only pay when the platform goes live.

The typical risks and constraints around migrating to a virtual desktop platform are eliminated allowing you to achieve the benefits faster.

Protecting and securing data held on desktops and laptops is proving increasingly difficult, time consuming and expensive.

The Utility Desktop platform keeps data in the datacentre and where laptops are used, ensures that all data is secure and backed up to the datacentre.

The risks of user data not getting backed up and sensitive data leaking outside your organisation are significantly reduced.

Constant change within your organisation makes budgeting and planning difficult.

MDS offers complete flexibility on the Utility Desktop platform without the typical penalties associated.  The service can scale up or down according to requirements.

Your business can plan for change without the normal concerns over wasted investments, secure in the knowledge that the service is always available.

Higher levels of security and control that can be provided in house are required for desktop/laptop users.

MDS’s Utility Desktop Platform is hosted in a highly secure datacentre and built to ISO27001 standards.  Regular testing of procedures and security are carried out as standard.

You can mitigate risk and achieve higher levels of security without the cost or pain associated with self certification.