The Enterprise Need
One of the most difficult frontiers of every disaster recovery plan is tackling the restoration of enterprise software and re-establishing desktop capacity. Many disaster recovery plans focus on the restoration of critical servers and databases. This is usually done due to the common perception that the business unit needs only somewhere to go, a phone, and a PC connected to the data center and business can resume from where things were left off. Reality is usually more complicated. Restoring the desktops that will allow resumption of business is a lengthy and time consuming process.

Furthermore, the restoration process needs to be done while communications may be disrupted to some business sites; employees may not have access to their PCs; employees may need to work offsite from their regular work location.

Ceedo Enterprise creates a managed portable virtual desktop which could easily be carried on a flash drive, mobile hard drive, or downloaded from the web. It allows every organization to design an extremely efficient disaster recovery plan and practice use on a daily basis – no waiting for D-Day.

Ceedo Enterprise Disaster Recovery
Using Ceedo Enterprise, disaster recovery can be quickly carried out to set up temporary offices with the computing resources needed by employees.

With Ceedo Enterprise, users can simply access a web link to download a full desktop workspace of applications and settings and immediately start work. In cases when communications are disrupted, users can be handed out USB drives with the full environment. They will just need to plug the drive into any standard Windows PC and immediately be able to start work using the enterprise provisioned desktop workspace.

The enterprise need only create and test one environment and be able to hand out to all employees so that when D-Day happens:

• Employees are fully trained
• The disaster recovery system is fully tested, maintained and ready
• Survivability is significantly improved compared to a single offsite location

The solution includes

• Ceedo Enterprise Client with Ceedo Enterprise Management System
• Standard Windows applications (preinstalled by the IT department)
• VPN client if needed
• Data for employee use during crisis
• Any other applications needed, including self developed Windows applications

Benefits

• Create the needed workspaces during the disaster planning stage. Instantly deploy if disaster strikes.
• Works on any PC whether Windows 2000, XP, Vista
• No administrative privileges required; fully functional in guest mode
• Deploy standard Windows application onto the Ceedo workspace
• Remote management of the portable virtual workspace for updates of:
  • Ceedo operating environment
  • Applications
  • Information required by employees
• Full utilization of the local PC used
  • Network connections
  • Graphic cards
  • Printers
  • Etc.
• Works directly from the web or from any mobile storage device