GoCloud Windows hosted desktops give you and
your team the freedom to work from anywhere. Access
your business apps, data, and files at any time, from any
device.
Thousands of UK small businesses are using home working IT that puts their team at risk and leaves them out of control.
Our Windows hosted desktops come with everything you and your team need to work remotely without IT interruptions or downtime.
We start by helping you move your apps, data and
files to your own dedicated, private cloud-based desktops and
servers.
You then easily access your IT from any device at any time over
the internet whilst enjoying high levels of security and IT
performance.
Find out more about how
hosted desktops work.
Find answers to more popular questions by visiting our FAQs.
You are able to download your data whenever you want. Depending on how much data you have, you can copy the data via a mapped drive, download via FTP, or we can send you USB hard drives.
A hosted desktop is a Windows desktop containing your applications, which you use to access your files and data from. Files can be stored on a hosted file server, data can be on a database server such as SQL Server. Our hosted desktop service comes with the desktops, file server and a firewall, all dedicated to you and not shared with other customers.
No. Customers can use any PC, Mac or Linux machine to connect to their hosted desktop. One of the initial cost-savings is the ability to continue to use existing PCs. As the processing power, memory, and storage are provided by our servers, customers are even able to use older PCs that would be unable to run a new Operating System themselves, thereby extending their working lives and ROI. Alternatively, you may decide to supply thin clients, to further enhance the benefits of moving to a hosted desktop environment. Thin clients are physically smaller PCs; they cost less than a normal PC (aka a "fat client"), and use a lot less energy. Of course, as a hybrid measure they may opt to simply replace existing computers with thin clients as they begin to fail. Hosted desktops will also work on laptops, tablet devices such as the iPad and smartphones such as the iPhone.
Firstly, we recommend using a backup internet service if required, such as ADSL or a dongle if mobile. Secondly, if you lose your connection to your hosted desktop, when you regain your connection, your desktop is exactly as you left it, with all applications and data intact.