GoCloud hosted desktops give small businesses access to a simple remote working solution without the risk or complexity of other cloud services.
That means using a hosted desktop will feel very familiar to you and your team, so there's nothing new to learn, no training required, and no down-time when switching to a hosted desktop service.
Instead of your company data being held in lots of different places and on different devices, we move everything to a central location where it can be securely stored, accessed, and backed-up daily.
With your company data, files, and software all stored in our UK data centres (the cloud), you and your team will be able to access everything you need at anytime from any device with the internet.
You have complete control over what your team can
access, how they access it, and what they can do with your
company data.
We take care of everything else in the cloud, meaning you
never have to worry about security, anti-virus, back-ups, or
IT upgrades ever again!
Find answers to more popular questions by visiting our FAQs.
Yes. We can add almost any application to a customer network, making it available on whichever desktops they wish. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that they have the correct software licences for use on a multi-tenanted, hosted infrastructure.
The hosted desktops run on Windows Server (usually the latest version), contained in a VMware or HyperV virtual machine. The hosts are branded enterprise servers and they in turn connect to high-end data centre SANs running in a RAID 5/10 configuration. We use enterprise-class firewalls.
The SANs (Storage Area Networks) are configured in a RAID10 set, and all SAN nodes are also in a network RAID5 configuration. Should a single disk fail, customers will be unaffected apart from a small temporary performance drop, whilst we replace the failed disk. In the event that a SAN node fails, customers will be unaffected apart from a small temporary performance drop, whilst we replace the failed SAN. We also have dual diversely routed transit connections to the internet.
Yes. There is no restriction on when the hosted desktops can be accessed, unless one is specified within the security policy of a customer network itself, which would be a restriction set by the customer. GoCloud do not impose any such restriction as standard.