» How Hosted Desktop works

Wanstor’s hosted desktop service is able to provide high speed access to your computer desktop by using server based computing. This is achieved by centralising your desktop onto a high performance server, and then using a connection to the server which passes keystroke and display information back to the remote computer.

Traditional networks have used what are called "fat clients", using this method all of the data which is required by the remote computer is passed backwards and forwards across the network. This means that access to applications was so slow as to be unusable.

The hosted desktop technology, which relies on server based computing, "hosts" your desktop remotely allowing you to access this from a wide range of locations. In fact, from almost anywhere. What’s more you can also access your desktop (and all of the associated data) from a number of computers, without having to copy the data between the different devices. All your data is stored securely on our servers which we backup daily. Where ever you are in the world, as long as you can connect to the internet, you can access your applications, e-mail and data, safely and securely.