©2018 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved Putting on an event the size of Autodesk University is not for the faint of heart. Autodesk’s annual user conference draws 10,000+ attendees for three days of talks, demos, and hands-on classes that together require a huge amount of computing power. It used to take the Autodesk event team a week and thousands of hours of labor to set up hundreds of high-powered workstations — not to mention what it took to ship the workstations across the country, hoping they arrived on time and intact. Joel St-Pierre, event systems and support manager for Autodesk University, knew there had to be a better way — and he found it, by streaming apps from the cloud using Xi Frame and Azure instead. By going virtual, Autodesk University swapped desktops for lapto

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