Physical Desktop Delivery

Physical desktops, whether they are workstations, traditional PCs or laptops are provided for virtually the entire workforce and represent a significant investment in hardware, software, applications, security and management. Leveraging these assets is the most efficient, cost-effective and secure way to scale both remote and mobile access.

Many enterprises are finding it necessary to reevaluate or scale their remote access infrastructure to meet new demands for increased productivity, greater mobility, tablets in the workplace and the need to mitigate the effects of business disruptions. Enterprises are also finding that traditional VPN remote access cannot effectively scale to meet these new demands, falling short in areas including cost, performance, security and ease of deployment, management and use.

DesktopDirect Remote Desktop Access

DesktopDirect is an innovative, remote desktop access solution. Unlike VPNs, Array's DesktopDirect enables employees to get to their office computers from any remote location — whether they be at their home office, at a customer or partner site, at a public Internet kiosk, or even from their iPhones and iPads. DesktopDirect uniquely leverages proven and scalable technologies to deliver the industry's most secure enterprise-class solution for remote desktop access and control

Data Leakage Prevention

With DesktopDirect, data never actually leaves the corporate network. DesktopDirect seamlessly extends compliance already established on desktop computers to the remote location – thus no new effort is required on the part of IT to maintain compliance. Its on-premise architecture enables full control for IT administrators, including viewing and termination of sessions in real-time. All DesktopDirect deployments eliminate data leakage by transmitting only keyboard, video and mouse control data to the remote location. DesktopDirect is also available in a FIPS-compliant package to meet more stringent security requirements.

Full Application Availability

DesktopDirect leverages existing desktop, application and security infrastructure. Unlike virtual desktops or laptops with VPN access, a traditional PC work environment is provided to nearly all employees. Without any need for new hardware or software, licenses or application environments, employees enterprise-wide can cost-effectively be provided with full application availability.

Improved User Experience

Remote employees can connect immediately, simply by launching any of the most widely used web browsers today – Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome. Employees are always just "3 steps from the office". They log in using their daily credentials, just as they do every day at the office. Employees are presented with their desktop icons laid out exactly as they set them up, to their own personal liking, and so they benefit from the familiarity of their office computer's desktop environment – as if they were actually sitting at their desks and typing and clicking on their office computer. This translates to immediate user productivity without any prior user training, and overall greater business productivity.

Scalable, Cost-Effective Architecture

From a cost standpoint, the average medium-sized business can benefit from considerable savings in energy costs because of DesktopDirect's power management capability – users can shut down their office computers when they leave the office, as they normally would. DesktopDirect will power on their office computers on-demand — that is, only when those users need to access their office computers.

Available on Array's SPX Series appliances, DesktopDirect is available in right-sized hardware and software license packs scalable from tens to thousands of concurrent users on a single system. Unlike VPNs, DesktopDirect can scale to support an entire workforce without any additional investment in laptops or application, security and client management software; what's more, DesktopDirect can be set up in as little a few hours and is capable of achieving ROI in the time it takes to set up alternate solutions.

Business Continuity, Productivity and Mobile Access

Providing secure, scalable and cost-effective access to office desktops that's easy to deploy, manage and use, DesktopDirect is an ideal solution for increasing workforce productivity and mitigating the impact of business disruptions both large and small. In addition, DesktopDirect enhances mobile productivity for Apple iPad, iPhone and Android users, who can easily download DesktopDirect iPad, iPhone or Android client apps to gain full-featured access to Windows-based applications on their office computers.