Cloud Desktops: A Better Option for Remote Work

When the pandemic mandated remote work, many organizations made useful short-term changes to remain in business. Many chose to expand the use of their Virtual Private Network (VPN). But VPNs aren’t always secure, and they can lead to bottlenecks that negatively affect performance. A better solution for enabling secure end user computing is needed, and the answer resides in the cloud.

Scalability and quality issues with VPN

For a long time now, organizations have looked to their IT team to provision IPSec VPN technology for enabling remote work, but it’s not suitable for many use cases in today’s digital world. When users are in the office there is no need for VPN, they are already on the corporate network, and this is typically fine, as long as most of their resources are on the LAN. When they are traveling or need to work from home, though, employees can use their corporate-owned device to establish a secure network tunnel back through their VPN to the corporate data centers and then access the apps and data running on servers.