Many businesses are nowadays linking up more than one location and are looking for effective ways to share data between them. A commonly offered solution is VPN (Virtual Private Networks). Unfortunately it is only to apparent that we lack the bandwidth in this country to effectively use VPN’s to connect two office space’s together, unless that is you are fortunate to have the ability to fund a leased line. Even then latency and speed still comes into play. One effective solution not always looked at is Remote Desktop Services (previously names Terminal Services).
RDS as we shall now call it allows remote users to log in remotely from any computer running the RDS Client to a central server(s) and be provided with applications, email and many other functions all through the RDS Client. Bandwidth is less of an issue becuase RDS is basically a picture of what is going on the desktop of the remote session, rather than the heavy transfer of data, the actual bits and bytes been transferred is minimal, this is not to say more bandwidth is not better as is usually the case.
The latest version of RDS on Windows Server 2008 R2 offers some amazing functionality including high security, personal virtual desktops (using Virtualization, very clever) and reasonable licencing costs. We have worked on a number of projects recently that have utilised this technology to good effect allowing remote offices to use inhouse applications and data whilst keeping everything secure in head office.
If you would like to find out more about how Leaf Technology can help you with a project that could benefit from Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services then please get in touch, we are always happy just to have a chat to bounce ideas around or get our teeth into a project directly.
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