Let's think the unthinkable. What if a disaster destroyed your offices? What if an epidemic outbreak* stranded your employees at home? What if a disastrous CPU vulnerability, a bug or a Windows® update incapacitated all your PC's? What would be your Plan B?
The simplest way to ensure that you remain operational and can recover after a disaster is: (1) to use laptops, (2) to keep most of your resources in the cloud, (3) to grant users access to your on-premises resources via VPN, and (4) to maintain off-location clones of your on-premises servers in a physical remote hypervisor cluster node.
When your servers run in virtual machines, all it takes to do the latter is to synchronize virtual disks. User data, network shares, server applications and Windows® virtual machines running desktop applications can be accessed remotely via VPN from a PC, a Mac, a Chromebook, a tablet, or even a phone.
Authentication is both user and device-centric, and access to resources can be limited to predefined originating IP addresses.
Should the situation persist, you could clone Windows® virtual machines in minutes to provide users with a domain attached computer.
Your entire business could run from the cloud or an off-location cluster node, using personal devices as clients.
*Well! this one finally happened, didn’t it?