Traditional IT infrastructure can be cumbersome and costly. The price of keeping servers, PCs and monitors running and free from attacks is expensive. Novacloud workspace is a cloud managed desktop platform which provides VM and managed desktop environments - deployed in your own subscription - to new or existing staff at the click of a button. Best of all, you can balance expenditure with performance – ensuring you keep an eye on that all-important bottom line.

Features and benefits

• Instant desktop rollout
  Easily create a secure, scalable desktop environment with a selection of desktop images which we patch, operate and manage for you. There is also the option of creating a custom standard image which you can roll out to any user at the click of a button. Builds a fully managed Azure Virtual Desktop and/or Bastion environment for you in under 10 minutes!
  
• Cost optimisation at every turn
  Novacloud workspace can give you a detailed, drilled-down description of where your money is going on the platform, and provides clever automation features to help cut costs, from turning off machines at certain times, to analysing what you’re spending with AI-powered forecasting estimates.
• Secure and stable
  Having a smooth system is one thing, but it’s nothing compared to one which can be relied upon time and time again. Novacloud combines these two together, making sure your operations are secure on the Azure platform, all images are fully patched when required, and the user experience is second-to-none.
• Own your own data
  Novacloud workspace runs as a managed application in your own subscription, storing user profile data on encrypted disks which attach to desktops when a user starts a session. The platform never has access to any of the user data contained within your environment.
• Cloud-first authentication and operations
  Microsoft Entra takes care of all authentication – The Novacloud workspace platform has no visualisation of anything other than basic user details and the platform running in the isolated managed resource group. Get rid of all that old expensive hardware and run demanding programs in the cloud at a fraction of the cost!
• Automated deployment and management operations
  The platform sets up your environment and manages desktop automation – including any Bastion or AVD requirements and user profile creation.

Use Cases

Without the overhead of having to setup production IT environments for your staff, the door is immediately opened to myriad use cases, across all industries.

Day-to-day

• A simple way for small and medium businesses to run a virtual desktop infrastructure without breaking the bank or having to spend a penny on development and consultancy.

• Assigned staff can log onto a high-powered desktop for a short period of time (to run big, slow spreadsheets for example) and sign off when the work is complete. Saving potentially thousands in compute costs.
• Can be used as an isolated area for testing new applications with selected users.
  

Development and Testing

• Set up a development sandbox for Isolated UAT and remediation work.
• Create an always ready, dedicated environment for your projects and workloads.

Individuals

• Independent technology consultants - Take your desktop wherever you go - Use on any device, anywhere.
• Power users requiring on-demand, ultra quick compute.

GPU and high performance

• Marketers editing large video files can save money by only spinning up a super-fast GPU powered VM only when required.
• CAD, animation and graphic design users can also benefit by running demanding renders on high-powered machines then switching back to a more lightweight desktop for normal use.

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Who are we?

• Microsoft partner since 2010.
• Trusted supplier to many clients including in the food and hospitality, not-for-profit and education sectors.
• Wide ranging professional expertise right across the board with the Azure platform.
• Security and privacy conscious. We don’t share, steal or mine your data.
• Ethically and sustainably driven.