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Insurance Brokerage Uses Nutanix for VDI rollout to Migrate to Windows 7 with Repurposed PCs

Insurance Brokerage Uses Nutanix for VDI rollout to Migrate to Windows 7 with Repurposed PCs

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Case Study — Brokerage/Risk Management Business Challenge As the DeWitt IT organization began looking at options to support remote employees, cost and performance were big concerns for them. Initially, VDI was not even a consideration due to the infrastructure cost implication. The team was considering investing in an 8-10U Fibre Channel SAN with two hosts and 15TB data storage. The team gauged that this infrastructure would not have been feasible to support VDI because of performance issues from the shared Fibre Channel switches, limited redundancy and long ROI for the capital investment. Reproducing its existing production infrastructure to support VDI was too cost-prohibitive, estimated at $150,000 with only minimal redundancy. The Nutanix Solution When the team was introduced to

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