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Dave Moyes, Partner, Information and Digital Systems, SimpsonHaugh Architects
SimpsonHaugh Architects has offices in Manchester, Birmingham and London in the UK. The company is making a £ 1.21 million investment over several years to digitally transform by introducing VDI and AI technology to underpin the future development and operations of the business. It chose the ControlUp DEX platform to monitor and optimise its VDI environment in real-time, which avoids downtime worth £ 1.79 million and saves £ 35,000 in staff costs.
SIMPSONHAUGH ARCHITECTS EMBRACES DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WITH VDI AND AI
ONTROLUP, A COMPANY
C at the forefront of Digital Employee Experience( DEX) management, has announced that SimpsonHaugh Architects, a UK-based, award-winning and respected practice, is utilising the ControlUp DEX platform to monitor and optimise its new Virtual Desktop Infrastructure( VDI) environment in real-time.
SimpsonHaugh is making a £ 1.21 million investment over several years to digitally transform by introducing VDI and Artificial Intelligence( AI) technology to underpin the future development and operations of the business. Industry-leading solutions have been installed including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop, Citrix NetScaler, VMware vSphere Hypervisor, Dell Servers with vSAN storage,
NVIDIA vGPU and ControlUp’ s DEX platform, which is providing VDI performance analytics and remediation.
Adopting VDI was driven by a strategic decision to centralise IT on-premises at SimpsonHaugh’ s headquarters in Manchester, improve remote working, support a work / life balance for staff and boost project collaboration by not being constrained by physical workstations.
The IT team also wanted to avoid the complexity, time and expense of managing systems over three locations given the practice also has offices in London and Birmingham. Furthermore, many workstations – highend PCs each costing up to £ 6,500 – were becoming end of life, unreliable, consuming a lot of power and needed to be upgraded.
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