# Modernizing Critical Infrastructure for a Growing Architectural Firm

An architectural firm was growing quickly, but its aging VDI infrastructure was starting to hold business back.

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## Modernizing Critical Infrastructure for a Growing Architectural Firm

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An architectural firm was growing quickly, but its aging VDI infrastructure was starting to hold business back. As the firm continued hiring, six-year-old hardware and limited compute capacity led to performance issues with no path to add the GPU resources needed to support business growth. Rising VMware licensing costs, along with gaps in backup and ransomware protection made it clear that simply renewing existing infrastructure wasn’t the right answer. A move to Expedient VMware Private Cloud delivered the GPU-ready infrastructure, high-performance storage, managed security, and resilient data protection they needed to manage growth and scale with confidence.

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 Professional Services 

## Challenges

Outdated infrastructure and legacy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) hardware limited performance and growth

No upgrade path for GPUs to support growing VDI workloads

Peak-time performance degradation impacted employees as staff members increased

Delaying modernization was too risky with rising VMware costs, needed backups, and data gaps

## Outcomes

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Modernized compute hardware with scalable storage

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Data protection and backups

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Lowered costs and fully managed services

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