By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor

Flagship Restaurant Group, which owns restaurants in Nebraska and Texas, has selected Desktone for cloud-hosted virtual desktop infrastructure.

Officials with Desktone claimed that the company’s cloud is the industry’s only purpose-built product for delivering VDI in the cloud.

The cloud-hosted virtual desktop service would help to simplify desktop access for mobile employees, enhance collaboration, and gain the flexibility needed to support company growth, they said.

“Flagship opened two restaurants last year and we plan to continue expanding. We knew that a virtual desktop infrastructure would make it easier for managers to work from different, geographically dispersed outlets and for our company to add new employees to the network, but didn’t want to spend the money or time creating our own VDI environment,” said Megan Longo, director of marketing of Flagship Restaurant Group, in a statement.

“With the Desktone Cloud, we get all of the functionality of VDI without the hassle and cost of building a datacenter. Managers can use local, onsite computers and mobile devices to access their desktops—they don’t have to carry their computers around with them. And now that it only takes a few minutes to add new desktops to our Desktone Cloud service, we can integrate future stores and get new employees up and running quickly,” said Longo.

Longo noted that Flagship is using the Desktone Cloud’s file sharing capability to enhance collaboration.

Longo said that it’s much easier for employees in the company’s Omaha and Fort Worth locations to communicate, now that one can work from any computer and share documents without having to email them back and forth.

“Personally, I really like the fact that I can leave my Flagship PC at the office, log in from my home Mac computer and access all my desktop files. Using the Desktone Cloud makes it possible to work from virtually anywhere,” Longo said.

“We’re very pleased that Flagship chose the Desktone Cloud as the foundation of its virtual desktop environment. Flagship’s use epitomizes why businesses of all sizes are turning to our cloud-based desktop service: they want to reap the benefits of desktop virtualization but can’t because of the complexities and costs inherent in internally deployed VDI. And they find that the agility and simplicity that the Desktone Cloud enables—combined with its extremely affordable price point—is unparalleled,” said Peter McKay, CEO of Desktone.

In November, TMCnet reported that Desktone, Inc., a provider of Desktop as a Service or DaaS, introduced Desktone 3, which is expected to help Desktone and service providers to build and support large-scale, cloud hosting-enabled desktops cost effectively.

Customers will be able to benefit a lot from virtual desktops as they eliminate the need for hardware and software deployments. Desktone unveiled the virtual desktop hosting platform, introducing the concept of desktops as a service (DaaS). It provides a platform that is specifically architected with multi-tenancy and a service grid which can deliver true desktops in the cloud.