What are Remote Apps and Remote Desktops?

RDS provides two basic solutions to companies:

• Remote Apps: With RemoteApps you can easily deliver applications remotely. It means, local and remote apps can run on the same device simultaneously.
• Remote Desktop: this allows easy virtual desktop sharing over an internet connection. The company can add more than one user to a single desktop so employees of a company can work in collaboration.

What are a few benefits of Remote Desktop Services (RDS)?

Unified Application experience

With RDS, you can get a unified remote desktop remote working experience. This truly transforms the way we work via the internet. Through RDS, users can easily get access to applications that are only available to businesses.

Built-in security

With Azure Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft has put in all the latest security methods to deal with the security challenges of today. With these methods, employees can freely access the company data and platforms securely.

Powerful processing

RDS is server-based and provides high-end computing power to devices that are inherently not-so-powerful in terms of processing. Thus, the users of average kinds of systems can get their hands on a high-tech system power for better computing and office work via RDS.

Easy and simplified management

With RDS, Admins are in a position to implement complex solutions within a single instance without the overhead of managing multiple operating systems. This saves time for administrative tasks and management of these tasks too. Backups and security updates are also easily manageable along with better business collaboration.

Reduced Costs

With RDS, you are in a better position to reduce the costs of overall IT infrastructure. Not only has it reduced the costs of IT infrastructure but also for the IT personnel and IT operations.

Improved Uptime

With RDS, you get optimal uptime since it is equipped with built-in redundancy for better resiliency and business collaboration. RDS solutions can be configured and deployed on multiple servers to ensure maximum uptime.

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MachPanel Automation Module for Remote Desktop Services

MachPanel is a born-in-the-cloud and highly robust cloud automation platform for business. Designed specifically for CSPs and modern-day businesses, MachPanel is equipped with the latest offerings that businesses need today. The Automation module for Remote Desktop Services provides Hosting Service Providers the opportunity to offer virtual (personal / pooled) desktops and terminal sessions. Without paying anything extra, adapt to changing environments with easy-to-manage solutions. MachPanel provides an easy billing and self-service portal for smoother and faster business operations.

Get started with MachPanel and discover how RDS can facilitate your business for better growth and cost-cutting.

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With increasing updates from big names like Microsoft coming up every now and then, it is necessary for Control Panels to catch up on the trendy updates in time. For example, quite recently Microsoft has updated its CSP Direct billing requirements. Under this requirement, Microsoft tier 1 partners need to purchase a Microsoft support plan and they also need to demonstrate key capabilities that includes providing customer solution application and enable billing and provisioning infrastructure. If a partner is unable to meet these requirements they will have to switch to a reseller model that is selling through an indirect provider. With this in sight, automation platforms will have to make sure that their solutions enable partners to fulfill these requirements.

Being in the era of Cloud Automation, the basic need of Hosting Service Providers is to be able to transfer the services in a way that is hassle free and complete. Hosting control Panels, nowadays, come in a variety of interfaces and with competitive features. It’s important to know the trendy features of 2018 that make any control panel a considerable option. Let’s have a look

On Premises/ Hybrid Marketplace

In the current era, a lot more customers would want to showcase their products and apps so that they can be sold from a platform. A good Hosting Panel would always give you an option of creating a marketplace for your customers.

E-commerce flows

Giving the option to resellers about their ecommerce flows and making the sales productive, is the current need of Cloud Hosting Control Panels.

Accounts management

Tier based account management is the trend of today. A good Hosting Panel offers 3 tier accounts management, that is account management for Providers, resellers and customers. In this way, the hosting providers know which accounts to give more personalization to.

Branding and customizations

Hosting Panels of today need to cater the need of customization and branding in case of resellers and offer them more flexible options to tailor things according to their business needs.

R&D team: Rapid and fast development life cycle

With this option, the Hosting Service Providers are able to experience fast and Rapid development life cycle experience. A Good Hosting panel is able to give you the opportunity to keep ahead of the competition.

Support (Product and enterprise level)

An ideal Panel is able to provide you a good after sale support. This includes the Product support and support at enterprise level after the deployment of a turnkey solution.

Self-service portals

It is necessary to enable or disable services for consumers so that they can take advantage of those services in a self-service manner giving them independence and control over services like billing, invoicing etc.

Role-based Delegation

A complete Hosting Control Panel provides role-based delegation. This feature is necessary as it gives the option to assign and control different privileges of  features by administrative or non-administrative user according to their role to the related operation or management related task.

Audit and control

In order to stand out from the current market Hosting Control Panels, it is necessary to provide a robust auditing system in which there is more control and transparency of the internal system making the reviewing and inspection processes easier. It should also provide the monitoring support in order to make monitoring clean and transparent.

Anytime, Anywhere

The ability to be accessible from any device and location is the need of current business. Accessibility is the main factor in today’s Control Panels. The support shall be given cross platform and across all devices.

Save time, minimize efforts

A clutter-free control Panel saves you a good amount of time and money. With options of bulk operations and group tasks, it is easier to do more work in just a few clicks and hence save time and efforts.

Billing and Reporting

A seamless way of providing billing and analytics to consumers can make the Hosting Control Panel the best in the market. Giving the feature of decent reporting with few clicks can make things manageable and easy for businesses.

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Configuration management with third party plugins

Businesses grow and as a result, they find a need to include third party plugins. A good Hosting Control panel must always have room for third party integrations and should provide help and support for such integrations as well.

Easy-to-use

The most important feature of a Hosting Control panel is its interface. There is no alternate to a clean and neat interface where it is easy for the consumers to get their hands on the features to use. Users are not able to use half the features of a complicated, yet robust interface. In order to deliver features efficiently, the interface needs to be hassle free.

MachPanel – where you find all the answers

MachPanel is one solution that inhibits the trendy features of 2018 for a successful Cloud Hosting Control Panel. It has room for third parties with third party plugins. With MachPanel, there is a lot more to offer than just audit and control. Consumers can showcase their products and sell them effectively with integrated eCommerce flow. Not only that but billing and reporting made easier as it is just a few clicks work. Its neat interface makes it user-friendly. It manages businesses with end-to-end automation making it the best Cloud Hosting Control Panel choice of this era.

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