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“Tribune’s VDI solution revolutionised our ability to maintain business continuity in the event of an outage — but the benefit didn’t stop there. It dramatically reduced the cost of £1,000,000 and provided our end-users with unmatched flexibility and mobility.”
CEO, a major global bank, UK

Tribune’s ICT solutions can help commercial businesses to reduce costs and add great value through a quality implementation and maintenance of their ICT infrastructure. Tribune led the way in implementing, for a global bank, a large scale VDI solution. The bank experienced considerable benefits in transformed and improved ICT through implementing a Tribune VDI solution.

The corporate benefits of creating a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
There are a number of key aspects where all organisations may fall behind in delivering increased efficiency and flexibility to their workforce; - effectively managing the workspace is just one of them. Organisations which have already adopted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) have realised huge benefits, through reduced IT support costs, reduced exposure to infrastructure failure, and breakdowns in working processes. They have also avoided the risk of crippling financial losses. For them, VDI provides much better protection against disasters, or outages of some form, and an edge against competitors slower to adopt these technologies.

Case Study:
Tribune began working with one of the UK’s largest banks in 2004 on a project which would revolutionise its client’s ability to maintain business continuity in the event of an outage, planned or unplanned. But it did not stop there. The bank has benefited far beyond the improvement of workspace recovery contingencies and now it has dramatically reduced the cost of supporting its widespread workforce of desktop PC users. It has also provided that workforce with a hitherto-impossible level of flexibility, and mobility to work from anywhere and from any device.

Facts:
Organisation: A major global bank

Situation and issues:
• Eight disaster recovery sites in the UK
• 2,000 PCs requiring individual configuration and updating for specific user roles
• Time consuming and expensive to maintain full up-to-date ‘state of readiness’ in DR suites.

Solution:
• Initial audit carried out by Tribune
• Rollout of virtual desktop environment using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
• Initial pilot phase involving 1,000 virtual desktops maintained across 15 servers and accessible instantaneously from any location
 

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