Catalyst Replay - Building the Business Case for VDI

Building the Business Case for VDI

McHenry Savings of Illinois is a full service financial institution with a complete line of deposit and loan products. With four banking locations and over 100 full-time employees, McHenry Savings provides customers with personal and business loans, refinancing, free checking, home equity loans, mortgages, 24-hour online banking and much more. With more than 100 workstations and an IT department of two, McHenry Savings chose to virtualize their desktops with Pano Virtual Desktop Solution (VDS) in August 2008 in order to replace their outdated PCs, decrease the client footprint at the workstation and improve desktop management. Since deployment, McHenry has experienced cost savings with the initial workstation purchase, a reduction in software licensing costs, a decrease in the amount of time spent building desktops (from a day to a couple of hours), a reduction in the time spent by IT fixing workstation issues (from hours to minutes) and a significant savings in electricity cost McHenry estimates they will save $23,000 over the next three years by using Pano VDS instead of traditional PCs.
This session will delve into the business issues McHenry wanted to solve with desktop virtualization as well as the deployment, benefits and future roadmap of Pano VDS at McHenry Savings. It will also review desktop virtualization best practices and where organizations should begin before adopting a solution.

Duration: 33mins

Presenters:
Derek Niedermayer