Compass Consulting proudly presents our new informative technology video series, Compass Tech TV. Created and produced by OneTwelve Productions, a Compass Consulting marketing and multi-media subsidiary, we bring you our first episode, “Citrix Mobility”. Come take a tour through the fundamentals of virtual desktop technology, served up by our Citihosts Cloud and utilizing Citrix Receiver on a variety of computing devices.

Business is going mobile. Companies are realizing that to increase efficiency, reduce costs, attract great talent, and to stay competitive, IT mobility is no longer a choice.

So what’s the best solution?

Let’s start with the fundamentals… and then we’ll go from there.

First, any IT solution should lower costs and provide a better overall user experience. And a mobility solution must be capable of delivering secure access to critical business applications and data. All this may sound like a tall order. Building out these systems takes a lot of time and money. And for smaller businesses, they may lack qualified internal IT staff to support such systems. Another burden… the reduced functionality, or the lack of mobile versions of mission-critical business apps. Then there’s training, and most importantly, securing business data so it is not copied, lost or stolen.

Keep the faith.

We provide a solution that solves all the above. Citihosts Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, or ‘VDI’.

Our solution will not only remove the aforementioned obstacles, but we’ll eliminate the need for your on-premise network by virtualizing it into our fast, reliable and secure Citihosts Cloud. Just think about that for a moment… no more costly server upgrades, significant cost reductions when replacing workstations, reduced on-premise IT service costs… and the list goes on.

OK. How does it work?

The process is simple. Our experienced Citihosts engineers recreate your current network environment on our cloud servers. This includes configuring all of your secure network access, business applications and data exactly the way it was on your internal systems. Then, employees simply download an easy-to-use app onto their desktop computers and preferred mobile devices, and they’re ready to go. Now you can deliver an instant mobile workspace and allow employees to securely access their existing Windows apps and data from any desktop or mobile device, with a true mobile app experience.

Citihosts VDI provides touch-enabled access to the same business applications employees use on their desktop every day and mobile, touch-enabled editing of Office documents from wherever they’re stored. And because information is never stored on the device itself, your business data always remains absolutely safe.

Related to security, our hardened Citihosts security infrastructure can prevent jailbroken devices from accessing your network, restrict employees from running your business applications on public wifi networks, secure data while in-transit, and even wrap your own custom apps in a custom security policy.

All the benefits of mobility and remote access, minus the risks, costs, and poor user experience.

Do it right… the first time. That’s Citihosts VDI.