COUNTRY FOCUS : BAHRAIN infrastructure as needed because it allowed the roll-out of new virtual machines and capacity to existing VDIs as needed . Still , there was one more factor to consider : cost .
With traditional desktops , the budget for operating expenses ( OPEX ) had to keep increasing every year to purchase new hardware . Switching to Nutanix eliminated this expense , thus substantially lowering annual costs .
Buoyed by the success of the initial trial , a decision was taken to increase the VDI user base to 500 employees and subsequently the project was further expanded with the objective that everyone at the Royal Court will be moved to VDI by the beginning of 2023 .
The IT infrastructure is more secure because all the VDIs – the applications and data they contain reside in the data centre . Zulardi and his team can manage updates and upgrades from a central location and spin up more capacity whenever users need it . Files no longer go missing because they are centrally stored , automatically backed up and retrievable from any computer with access to the network .
The application base has also been standardised . Royal Court users are restricted to Microsoft 365 , Microsoft Exchange , SAP and a handful of apps required by some specialists . Troubleshooting now is easier than ever . The IT team can monitor , manage and configure the entire data centre or
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