Deploy your existing VDI environment on Google Cloud with itopia’s automated discovery and migration features. itopia’s automation will provision VMs with Microsoft RDS server roles, enabling Windows virtual desktops. It’s that simple.
Create new users or import users from your existing Active Directory. The choice is yours. Build custom images of Windows OSes & Apps and assign them to user groups in any region worldwide. Set up file shares and user permissions. Manage your entire workforce from a single, intuitive control panel.
You’re done! Now, optimize your new cloud environment by enabling itopia’s Auto-Scaling to scale VMs based on real-time user demand. Set schedules for VM uptime so you only pay for what you need, when you need it. Gain ongoing insights for further cost reduction by monitoring app usage and compute consumption with BigQuery. The need to work from anywhere has accelerated digital transformation for many organizations. Workspot and Google have partnered to deliver low-latency, Windows 10/11 and Linux Cloud PCs on Google Cloud, making it possible for organizations to empower remote and hybrid work through an agile, cost-effective SaaS model. Workspot uses Google Compute Engine with sole tenancy to deliver our Cloud PC solutions, enabling customers to take advantage of the massive scalability and outstanding performance of Google Cloud. Imagine being able to create thousands of Windows 10/11 and Linux Cloud PCs across multiple Google Cloud regions in minutes, and then managing them all from a single pane of glass. With the Workspot Enterprise Desktop Cloud™ SaaS platform on Google Cloud, it’s easy. Your users simply access their Cloud PC from their device of choice – ChromeOS, Android, iOS, Mac, Windows or HTML5, no matter where they are working. This is how you prepare for the future of work. Workspot and Google Cloud have you covered today and tomorrow. Ready to see it in action? With the Workspot Enterprise Desktop Cloud platform on Google Cloud, IT can provision thousands of enterprise-ready Windows 10/11 Cloud PCs across cloud regions in minutes, anywhere in the world. Enterprises achieve unprecedented business agility, while also dramatically simplifying IT. Being enterprise-ready means we don’t disrupt your current IT processes. Workspot can integrate with the IT tools you already use. When you deploy Cloud PCs on Google Cloud via Workspot, you’re able to use your existing Windows 10/11 image and your existing MFA and security solutions. Unlike other Cloud PC solutions, we don’t require you to change the security and management tools you’ve already carefully chosen. You can manage your new Cloud PCs just like you manage your other PCs. Workspot’s turnkey, Cloud PC solutions have changed everything about how virtual desktops are deployed and managed, including the economics. In comparison to legacy on-premises and cloud VDI, we’ve eliminated complexity; our cloud desktop service takes care of all the heavy-lifting for you. Our no-surprises, flat-rate pricing may be the best option for some use cases. Other use cases may be better suited for consumption pricing because of usage patterns that are unique to that use case. Having the flexibility to apply the best pricing model for each use case is key to optimizing end user computing costs. What sets us further apart from other solutions is that we include the cost of Google Cloud compute, so your Cloud PC costs are predictable. These pricing models also include a choice of multiple Cloud PC configurations to suit each user’s needs, as well as Go-Live Deployment Services and standard support. VDI is ineffective for distributed organizations because it was designed for a single data center, and its high costs and complexity make it prohibitive to deploy in multiple locations. As a result, remote users suffer slow performance that kills productivity. With Workspot, IT admins can select the Cloud PC configuration they need for each use case and deploy them to any user worldwide – with just a few mouse clicks. Because the Cloud PC is placed in the cloud region nearest the user, latency is minimal, which results in great performance for users. Now you can hire the best people no matter where they live, so your business is ready to engage on new opportunities anywhere. Workspot assumes responsibility for the reliability of your Cloud PCs. Our 99.95% Cloud PC Service Level Agreement (SLA) is second to none, but we don’t stop there. Our sophisticated data collection, analysis and correlation engine, Workspot Watch™, fuels our Network Operations Center (NOC) which operates 24 x 7 to provide our Support team with unified, real-time visibility into the behavior of every Workspot Cloud PC globally. If we see an issue brewing, whether it’s with connectivity, performance, or password errors, our team can proactively alert your IT team to help avoid a loss in user productivity. More powerful is our ability to parse millions of data points to identify patterns that could indicate a security risk, or if a recent operating system or application update is causing problems across our user base, we’re positioned to escalate that with the vendor. Strengthening your overall business SLA to keep your business up and running is job #1 for our Customer Support Team. We’re here to help! Access these valuable resources to help guide your journey to cloud desktops.
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Cloud computing and virtualization technology company Citrix has teamed up with Google Cloud to launch desktop-as-a-service (DaaS), a remote work solution for organizations that are looking to scale and secure their remote workforce without the IT responsibility. The new offering will allow companies to provision and deploy Citrix’s virtualization solution on Google Cloud for application and desktop delivery to any device, without separately obtaining their own Google Cloud subscription or additional IT resources. Citrix and Google say they will also co-develop a new, integrated control plane, to make it easier to monitor and provision these desktops. The partnership will use Google Cloud’s cloud-native services and backbone network, using advanced software-defined networking and edge caching services to deliver a consistent experience, transactional simplicity, and high-performing DaaS, the companies noted. This announcement builds upon years of collaboration between Citrix and Google Cloud. Under the terms of an expanded agreement, Citrix will become a preferred and strategic virtual desktop service partner of Google Cloud, and Google will become a preferred and strategic cloud partner for Citrix. “For organizations that are looking to scale and secure their remote workforce without the IT responsibility, Citrix and Google are working closely as part of our new expanded partnership to develop a fully-managed and integrated DaaS solution on Google Cloud,” says Citrix. What’s happening right now? As they work to develop this fully-managed DaaS solution, the two companies say the first step of this strategic partnership will be a Citrix solution with a purpose-built management plane in Google Cloud, which will be available for preview in the next few months. Google Cloud subscribers will soon be able to purchase Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service with the Google Cloud-based control plane in the Google Cloud Marketplace. And coming soon, the customers will be able to use Citrix’s new migration and deployment guides found on its Citrix Tech Zone page for step-by-step guidance on their journey to Google Cloud with Citrix.
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