Desktone, Inc. is one of the leaders in cloud-hosted Desktops as a Service. The company recently announced that Flagship Restaurant Group has subscribed to the Desktone Cloud. The Flagship Restaurant Group owns restaurants in Nebraska and Texas and will leverage Desktone’s cloud-hosted virtual desktop service to provide desktop access for mobile employees, improve collaboration and gain the flexibility needed to support company growth.

In a release, Megan Longo, director of marketing at the Flagship Restaurant Group said that, “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.”

She added, “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.”

The industry’s only purpose-built product for delivering VDI in the cloud, the Desktone Cloud helps customers quickly benefit by using virtual desktops at a cost of $30/desktop/month. The cost is a lot cheaper when compared to those that are typically associated with onsite virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and traditional desktop environments.

One of the reasons why Flagship is using the Desktone Cloud’s file sharing capability is because it improves collaboration. Longo went on to say that, “It’s much easier for employees in our Omaha and Fort Worth locations to communicate, now that we 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.”

Peter McKay, CEO of Desktone said that, “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”.

In other news, Desktone announced that ProMark Solutions, a performance and implementation management supplier to public and municipal utilities, and manufacturer of Perfacto software, has subscribed to the Desktone Cloud.