In Anthem Group, the holding company comprising Anthem BioSciences, Anthem Cellutions and Anthem BioPharma that together employ 450 people, has announced the implementation of Citrix server and desktop virtualization solutions.
The implementation has resulted in secured remote access and boosted productivity for employees in addition to enhanced business continuity.
Being a start-up on a fast track growth path, the company couldnt afford to have n+1 concepts, i.e. server clustering, rolling out patch management software and wanted to avoid the challenging and cumbersome process of traditional desktops by provisioning them with the requisite user applications. Additionally, the company also wanted to enforce a remote working policy for its employees while ensuring secure data access and constant uptime. To meet these business imperatives, the company opted for Citrix XenServer and Citrix XenDesktop solutions.
Commenting on the deployment, Ravi Kalla, Senior Manager IT, Anthem Group, said, Desktop and server virtualization are invaluable technologies to address spiraling costs of IT infrastructure in todays environment. After a careful market assessment, we decided to deploy Citrix technologies which aligned perfectly to our business needs. Through a highly cost effective, quick and simple implementation process, today we can enable optimal employee uptime and flexibility to work from anywhere, through secure remote data access.
For the server virtualization roll-out, Anthem Group deployed Citrix XenServer solution, which eliminated the need to buy any additional hardware to deploy four critical server applications in the company and reduced the deployment time to only 3-4 days. This resulted in substantial cost reduction on server, power and cooling costs while facilitating increased administrative efficiency.
The company also deployed Citrix XenDesktop solution, which enabled employees to have an unchanged desktop experience. The company employees are also able to remotely access data as Citrixs desktop virtualization solution runs on all devices with minimal bandwidth consumption.
Users will benefit from enhanced productivity as the on-demand capabilities of Citrix solutions can enable desktop access to any user on any device anywhere with unparalleled simplicity and scalability. Through this implementation, Anthem Group has been able to save more than 35% in desktop computing costs and 62% in power expenses by enabling easy, centralized management of desktops and applications and reducing the need to refresh expensive hardware through Citrix desktop virtualization. Through server virtualization, the company created ten virtual servers from just two pre-existing physical servers which resulted in savings of 60%.
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