{"id":616,"date":"2017-04-30T18:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorennason-dot-com.crwcun8-liquidwebsites.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2017-04-30T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:27:56","slug":"will-next-office-network-completely-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorennason.com\/2017\/04\/will-next-office-network-completely-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the next Office Network be Completely Virtual?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years I’ve helped solo-preneurs and small businesses setup their technology to make them completely mobile relying on cloud (somebody else’s computer) based services. What I find interesting now, is the rise of completely virtual office networks.<\/p>\n
What is a Virtual Office Network?<\/strong><\/p>\n There are many ways to describe this. This is not an office network with VPN connectivity. Instead every employees computer is a virtual computer living in a private virtualized space in a data center.<\/p>\n You could have a company of 50 employees with the servers\/network to support it and the all the desktop computing power all located in a secure data center. The “PC’s” at each employees desk would be a small tiny machine and all it does it create a connection to the Virtual Computer in the data center that has access to the network.<\/p>\n ALL “work” is done in the virtual network in the data center.<\/p>\n This isn’t new.<\/strong><\/p>\n This type of network isn’t new I just find it interesting that it is becoming more readily available to the small business. Even more insteresting is how this could trickle down to the home computer.<\/p>\n Instead of your home computer being a powerful machine for Gaming\/Drafting\/CAD\/Video\/3D\/etc<\/p>\n You can buy yourself a cheap tiny computer with some fancy screens and your “desktop” is running in the cloud (somebody else’s computer)<\/p>\n Looking for more info?<\/strong><\/p>\n Research the following terms<\/p>\n DaaS (desktop as a service)<\/p>\n VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure)<\/p>\n I like this post from Tom’s IT Pro comparing DaaS vs VDI The idea for this post came from this post at Tech Crunch.<\/p>\n
\nDesktop as a Service Providers<\/a><\/p>\n