DESKTOP-AS-A-SERVICE : ENABLING REMOTE WORK AT SCALE
“ Being connected has never been more important to our customers than now , especially since the majority of their employees are working from home ”
— Tim Loake , VP , Infrastructure Solutions Group , Dell Technologies UK
coupled with lockdowns , travel bans , social distancing measures and online learning , have driven demand for digital services and infrastructure at an astonishing rate .
“ We also saw a large spike in network and connectivity needs during COVID- 19 ,” says Mike Fuhrman , Flexential ’ s chief operating officer of Cloud and Managed Services , speaking to Data Centre Magazine . “ Being connected has never been more important to our customers than now , especially since the majority of their employees are working from home .”
In order to enable digital operations during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond , enterprises are embracing the flexibility , resilience and scalability of service based digital solutions . This month , we sat down with Loake and Fuhrman to discuss how offering everything from desktops to data centres as a service is driving the success of the world ’ s most digitally-enabled companies .
DESKTOP-AS-A-SERVICE : ENABLING REMOTE WORK AT SCALE
Launched in July , Flextential ’ s new Desktop-as-a-Service ( DaaS ) solution has been designed to help remote workforces remain competitive during
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