This UK local authority is the largest in England with 84 elected councillors and 33,000 employees, and has responsibility for delivering public services to 1.4m county residents.
The situation
Migrate 4,000 devices away from Microsoft Windows XP, with efficient use of time and resource to minimise risk involved in handling highly sensitive data
Reduce IT management overhead and infrastructure expenditure
Improve employee mobility and working flexibility, in line with office space consolidation
Our approach
Carried out an extensive lifecycle analysis including strategy, assessment of employee working practices and current IT challenges
Presented roadmap to design and implement thin client capability across infrastructure of 11,000 users
VMware Horizon solutions implemented, leveraging existing investments and tailored to account for public services network compliance and user access control
Outcomes achieved
£560,000 cost savings in technician time from XP migration • £160,000 saving in software rationalisation
New VDI to save more than £2m in hardware over next 3 years through zero clients and lower powered machines
New levels of mobility, flexibility, security and integration across different departments
Software updates and centralised desktop support function would reduce IT support calls by 80%
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