How Can IT Help Technical and Creative Professionals Stay Productive Everywhere?
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Can Your Power Users Work from Anywhere?
At home. In the office. On the road. It’s no longer a matter of remote work or hybrid work—it’s just work. But when your teams are power users—such as engineers, designers, and data scientists tackling compute-intensive workflows and large, data-rich files—supporting their technology needs can get complex…and costly.
Key questions to consider when equipping power users:
• Is there a way to give your power users the exceptional performance required for the most complex and demanding projects, from 3D modeling to video effects and real-time rendering—wherever they’re working?
• Can you give them PCs matched to the work they do—beyond standard PCs and laptops that aren’t designed to power specialized software applications in any location —without overequipping them and strapping your budget?
The Right Solution for Your Hybrid Workforce
This article will help you answer the important questions and pick the right kinds of PCs to support your hybrid workforce, whether they’re office dwellers, remote workers, or digital nomads. We’ll offer guidance about the right devices, the ideal management approach for those devices, and how to protect data in a hybrid environment. And we’ll show you how Z by HP desktop and laptop workstations can easily provide you with the right technology answer for your power users.
Technology that Can Improve Your Infrastructure
To identify the optimal long-term solution for remote access by technical and creative pros, you’ll need to weigh the benefits and limitations of various approaches, including laptops, virtual desktop infrastructure, and centralized computing. While one option is to configure laptops for both home and office use, that can be costly and redundant, and it may also result in sensitive data and applications operating with inadequate oversight or control. You might also choose a conventional desktop virtualization approach, using centralized servers accessed via virtual desktop applications. However, it’s typically more complex to create this full-blown virtualization infrastructure when each user needs undivided access to a workstation.
An optimal choice for many use cases is centralized computing that gives your users access to real workstations from anywhere via a standard laptop or thin client. This approach helps keep data closet and virtualization costs under control.
Work location in 2022 and beyond:
24%
exclusively remote1
53%
hybrid1
Questions About Centralized Environments
If you already have a centralized solution:
• How many vendors are you working with to support your infrastructure?
• Does your existing centralized solution blend well with your workflows, or is your team constantly losing time and concentration performing work-arounds?
If you don’t already have a centralized solution:
• Do your power users need regular and fast access to the design files and data stored on-site?
• Can their laptops alone provide all the compute power they need to run software applications and work with large datasets?
• Does the cost and complexity of setting up a virtual environment seem out of reach?
The Right Remote Access Solution
Ultimately, power users require a solution that seamlessly enables them to be their most productive and collaborative selves from anywhere while IT needs that solution to enable remote support and control capabilities. The Z by HP Remote Access Solution provides this for users of Z by HP Workstations.
Z By HP Remote Access Solution
Z by HP Remote Access Solution makes the capabilities of Z by HP Workstations easily accessible and manageable from anywhere. Combining hardware and software, this solution supports both power users and IT teams, allowing them to be connected and productive at any locale without having to bring along heavy equipment. It also overcomes pricing, security, and bandwidth issues brought on by VDI and cloud options.
HP Anyware Software2
The HP Anyware software component turns almost any device into a high-performance PC. It allows users to remotely connect tablets, laptops, thin clients, or even zero clients to powerful, centrally located workstations so they can work on graphics or compute-intensive projects wherever they want or need to.
HP Anyware Manager3
HP Anyware Manager lets IT better manage centralized workstations for multiple users in several ways:
• Enable fast and easy deployment of new remote desktops and workstations with automated and brokered HP Anyware deployments
• Share remote workstations between multiple users by configuring assignments and entitlements
• Enable multifactor authentication (MFA) as an added security mechanism
HP Anyware Remote System Controller
HP Anyware Remote System Controller is a remote out-of-band management solution, giving IT the power to monitor and manage a workstation fleet from anywhere.4 It enables IT to:
• Conduct remote monitoring and troubleshooting
• Get pre-boot access, complete BIOS updates, and remotely re-image a PC5
• Receive hardware alerts and reports to resolve issues before they affect end users
Manageability that Optimizes Remote User Needs
Many organizations are seeking to automate device management tasks and use analytics to resolve issues before they affect employees. This type of arrangement starts to make business sense when a provider can demonstrate that its services will reduce overall costs, complexity, and in-house support across a hybrid working environment.
When considering solutions to mitigate challenges faced by compute-intensive power users working outside the office, important questions to ask include:
• Can you efficiently manage connections between off-site users and hardware in a central location via a single interface?
• Is user setup integrated with directories such as Microsoft Active Directory?
• Can multiple users connect to and collaborate on the same machine?
• Can you remotely hard power on/off the system?
• Can you check the status and availability of all centralized systems for remote session management?
Security that Goes Where Data, Devices, and Employees Go
Safeguarding devices and data against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks as well as accidental breaches is a perennial focus for IT decision-makers, especially in today’s evolving, remote-friendly workplace. The security challenges for workstation users can be especially complex because of the sophisticated applications and rich data they use.
To be effective, you need a solution that protects your organization
without adding complexity to
employees’ roles or impeding their productivity.
78%
of IT leaders believe more remote work means more security risk6
Here are Some Key Areas to Evaluate with Your Current Solution:
• Does it enable your remote users with fast and secure data access from anywhere?
• Is the data kept on-site and secure?
• Is your data secure over all network connections?
• Can you count on devices and solutions to proactively identify and resolve potential security risks before they cause actual damage?
Security Everywhere
Security is our priority and yours. HP Anyware software transfers only encrypted pixels over the network, which means all your important data stays right where it belongs—protected by your firewall and other security controls. And combined with Z by HP devices—the world’s most secure workstations7—you’ll have peace of mind whether your workers are in or out of the office.
When IT Does More, So Can Your Users
Organizations of all types and sizes are discovering the benefits of an approach that combines the right device for the power user with greater remote manageability and support capabilities for IT. When you’re ready to expand the possibilities for device deployment, management, and security across your organization for both in-house and multi-location remote employees, Z by HP delivers the flexible hybrid work solutions you need.
We have decades of experience meeting the needs of IT customers who manage creative and technical professionals across industries that work with compute-intensive workflows. We’ll help you provide your organization with a secure, customizable, and easy-to-use modern work experience through a single solution that can help your business adapt, stay connected, thrive, and compete as circumstances change. With Z, your IT department can focus people and resources on the things that drive business forward.
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- Gallup, “The Future of Hybrid Work: 5 Key Questions Answered With Data,” March 15, 2022, https://www.gallup.com/workplace/390632/future-hybrid-work-key-questionsanswered- data.aspx
- Network access required. HP Anyware software and licensing are available through a 1- or 3-year subscription. Renewal is required after the subscription term. HP Anyware subscriptions are based on the number of concurrent PCoIP connections used (pay for the number of host connections, not the software) with a minimum order quantity of 5. For a limited time, an HP Anyware Professional subscription also includes access and support for ZCentral Remote Boost and ZCentral Connect and is available for purchase through an HP reseller or contact sales at hp.com/Anyware. ZCentral Remote Boost Sender requires Windows 10 and 11, RHEL/CentOS (7 or 8), or UBUNTU 18.04 or 20.04 LTS operating systems. macOS (10.14 or newer) operating system and ThinPro 7.2 are only supported on the receiver side. ZCentral Connect requires Windows (10 or 11) or Windows Server (2016 or 2019) operating system, Microsoft Active Directory and Intel Active Management Technology for select features. For system requirements and to install HP Anyware and Anyware Manager, refer to the Admin Guides at: https://docs.teradici.com/find/product/hp-anyware
- Certain features of HP Anyware Manager, such as remotely powering the machines on/off, require Intel AMT and Microsoft Active Directory.
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- Internet access required. Automation of tasks available with select Z desktop workstations. See datasheet and quickspecs for details.
- HP Proprietary Research, 2020.
- Based on HP’s unique and comprehensive security capabilities at no additional cost on HP Workstations with Windows and 8thGen and higher Intel® processors or AMD Ryzen™ 4000 processors and higher.
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