What do I do with this?
Now that I have a cloud workstation solution, how do I decide where to use it to best help my business? Here are some common use cases so you can best utilize this powerful new tool in your belt.
Private computer in a public space
In many cases, the building or home has a computer that multiple users have access to. Most of the time, this computer isn’t in a location that affords the luxury of physical access controls. In these cases, a cloud based workstation (VDI) is a great solution. For shift workers, for example, VDI can make a big difference. The main workstation connection point is common, but different uses such as shift managers and shift employees may have a completely different set of application and permission needs. A VDI makes this possible.
In a home setting, parents often have a single computer or laptop, but want to be sure that all settings and files are kept completely separate and safe. VDI allows the parents to securely access anything they want, while the other users have a completely dedicated spaces that don't interfere with each other.
Jumpbox, Bastion, Island box
In the cases that a developer, IT or DevOps engineer needs to get into a cloud environment, a VDI can be used to isolate that machine like a remote island with certain access credentials stored only on that secure cloud workstation. This reduces the number of access keys in an organization, decreasing its attack surface. Also, when onboarding this type of sensitive user, VDI will reduce IT’s security liability to the protected environments and make creating a secure access more scalable, reliable and secure.
“Onboard your developers, shift workers, and students in seconds. ” — RainDrop Development
Here is a new potential hire, how can we give them a test project?
When hiring new employees, it is common to give them a standardized exam or project to see how they will fit into the position. Cloud based workstations allow potential employees to do that from anywhere using a completely personalized profile to complete any task HR can throw at them. This reduces IT time for creating and wiping environments as they can now create a reusable template. HR also wins because they can have a very smooth technical flow during their process.
Incoming students need clean environments for higher education or software training.
Whether your use case is a higher learning scenario, a specific curriculum or software training for new employees or potential clients, cloud workstations are a great flexiyou to get studentsble solution. A VDI ecosystem can scale efficiently, for as long as you want the users to be able to access them securely and with great degrees of accuracy. When students are done with their environment, they can be simply removed from the management console and you don’t need to worry about aging hardware or recycling the hardware to the next class.
Do I need a VDI Environment?
Yes. For your employees, this provides the best options for flexibility and efficiency. For your business, you want assurance that your workstation solution allows the optimum scalability, IT efficiency, and sets up without breaking the bank.
BUT...
For small and medium-sized businesses, setting up virtual desktop infrastructure can be expensive and difficult to manage by internal IT or, in many cases, the business owner. This usually leads to opening a whole new set of IT costs and headaches instead of streamlining and creating efficiency.
RainDrop can help
RainDrop provides a fully managed, Cloud based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). RainDrop empowers IT departments with powerful management tools and end users with self help guidance, and troubleshooting tools to simplify your organization's technical operations. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) features utilizing your customized configurations of operating system and applications so your employees and consultants can securely access from desktops, laptops, phones or tablets anywhere around the globe.
How to get started with RainDrop
It's quick and easy.
1 - Complete the signup form to create your first RainDrop. It will be ready to use in under 5 minutes. You can test it out, configure it, replicate it.
2 - Securely sign in using the email invitation received
3 - Create whatever workstation structure your business requires, and invite users to use the RainDrop management engine
With RainDrop, you get a 7 day free trial to get used to the system before you choose it as your preferred cloud workstation solution. Get all the experience of an end user as well as an administrator on the system with full access to all the powerful tools to use absolutely free for the first week. Ready, Set, Rain!
