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Large Financial Services Company Relies on ePlus to Quickly and Securely Enable 40,000 Remote Workers

ePlus' Accelerated Horizon VDI on Azure solution delivered the scalability and agility the organization needed to maintain business continuity as well as to be prepared for the unknown that lies ahead.

Large Financial Services Company Relies on ePlus to Quickly and Securely Enable 40,000 Remote Workers
Business Challenges

Business Challenges

  • The company faced an immediate and unexpected challenge to support 40,000 users to work from home.
  • Current compute and networking limitations could not accommodate adding the necessary capacity to the organization’s virtual desktop environment.
  • The company sought to minimize the impact to its business because of lockdown mandates as well as scale all services beyond the standard limits of service providers.
  • With internal IT staff busy supporting associates, the company needed a partner to focus on the VDI infrastructure.
Why ePlus

Why ePlus?

  • Core technical strength and talent in Microsoft Azure-specific design considerations and configuration as well as hands-on VMware Horizon expertise
  • Agility to mobilize and respond quickly to a rapidly dynamic situation, providing technical leadership to efficiently resolve problems
  • Comfort level navigating complex IT environments and familiarity with the customer’s existing systems and footprint
  • Established trust developed as existing IT advisor
Solution

Solution

ePlus Accelerated Horizon VDI on Azure

  • VMware Horizon on Azure coupled with automated configuration and deployment of Azure infrastructure and VMWare Horizon resources
  • Immediate engagement of a SWAT team of Azure and Horizon experts for accelerated design, build, configuration, test, and deployment
  • Ongoing engineering support and optimization services
Business Outcomes

Business Outcomes

  • Onboarded initial phase of VDI capacity in two days
  • Scalability and agility to maintain business continuity during the COVID-19 crisis as well as to be prepared for the unknown that lies ahead.
  • Facilitated the scaling of Horizon Cloud and Azure services to meet demands
  • Allowed remote workers to run their business applications and continue providing services from home
  • Able to rapidly provision and deprovision desktops as needs change by leveraging the cloud

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