Top AEC Firm Adopts GPU Cloud Workstations, Achieves New Levels of Business Agility

Challenge

This fast-growing architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firm needed to open five branch offices quickly, without implementing a full stack of servers, routers, and switches in each location. Included in their requirements was making sure that CAD designers using AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Revit, and Bentley among other applications, have outstanding performance as if using a local workstation. In addition to the immediate need to open branch offices in locations across the U.S., the firm’s near term growth strategy included making ongoing use of flexible co-workspaces, such as WeWork and Regus.

Having experienced the performance limitations and infrastructure complexity of traditional VDI, the IT team was both skeptical about trying another virtual desktop solution and ready for a change because of the countless hours spent maintaining and troubleshooting their VDI infrastructure. When the administrative work required to maintain VDI outweighed the benefits to the firm, the C&S team knew they had to find a better way, and that’s when they decided to evaluate Workspot.

Solution

• Workspot Workstation Cloud next to a virtual Panzura instance in Microsoft Azure
• GPU cloud workstations are delivered from Azure to low-cost devices
• Built-in disaster recovery for anywhere, any device productivity