Wipro
Case Study
Wipro Makes Virtual Desktops
Affordable with Nexenta Storage
Bangalore, India
www.wipro.com
Technology / Software / IT Professional Solutions / Services
Summary
Challenge: Managing physical desktops Benefits:
Solution: NexentaStor • Cost savings
Platform: Citrix • Productivity gains
Use Case: Server Virtualization / Hosting • New revenue
Business Overview
Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), is a leading information technology, consulting,
and business process services company that supports its clients by We needed a scalable and cost-
creating successful and adaptive IT solutions. As part of this mission, effective file storage solution for our
Wipro wanted to help clients reduce their IT costs, complexity, and VDI implementation. With Nexenta
management burden by providing a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution. we could achieve great performance
while scaling the storage capacity
Managing physical desktops at multiple sites is neither efficient nor cost
effective. But traditional virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has not
without excess expense.
been widely adopted because of its technical complexity and the cost
of implementation. DaaS offers a cost-effective and more accessible
Seshu Kumar G V
alternative. With desktop virtualization hosted by a service provider, Delivery Head for VirtuaDesk,
Wipro
organizations can get the benefits of VDI – such as cost savings and
flexibility – without the challenges of having to implement or maintain
VDI themselves.
Like traditional VDI, DaaS can support the highest standards of security
and compliance, enable a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, and
increase user productivity by reducing downtime from an average
of 10 hours per user per year to approximately 3.5 hours, according
to analysts. DaaS also typically costs 25 percent less than the TCO of
traditional VDI.
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VirtuaDesk DaaS
Wipro designed its DaaS solution, called VirtuaDesk, leveraging Wipro’s System Configuration
IP, industry standard hardware reference architectures, and software. • Dell R720
VirtuaDesk provides users with their own unique optimized desktops using • 256GB System Memory
the core technologies of centralized management and optimized user
experience across multiple devices and operating systems. • 1-2 X MD3060E
• 30-114 X 4TB 7.2K NL SAS
Wipro integrated VirtuaDesk software with the NexentaStor Software-
• 2-4 X 400 GB SAS MLC
Defined Storage platform to provide scalable and cost-efficient user data
storage. The company added a layer of automation which reduces the • 2-4 X 8GB STEC ZeusRAM
administrative burden. • 120-456TB
“We needed a scalable and cost-effective file storage solution for our VDI
implementation. With Nexenta we could achieve great performance while
scaling the storage capacity without additional expenses,” said Seshu Kumar
G V, Delivery Head for VirtuaDesk, Wipro. “We are excited to work with
Nexenta on our internal Wipro company storage requirements and to offer
the same solution to our customers.”
Solution and Benefits
Solution Administrators are pleased with the VirtuaDesk portal, which
allows IT to perform desktop management functions more
VirtuaDesk provisions full persistent virtual desktops that efficiently by simply managing the image template catalog and
meet users’ specific needs, whether they are task workers dynamically assigning the right image to each user. Further,
or knowledge workers. To date, Wipro has migrated more open communication between VirtuaDesk’s open APIs and
than 15,000 of its own employees to VirtuaDesk DaaS. Nexenta enables administrators to automate the mapping of
Wipro has deployed NexentaStor in four of its data centers shares to individual users. Earlier, manual mapping caused
in India on x86 hardware. Currently the Nexenta solution delays in putting new users on the VirtuaDesk system, but now
provides one petabyte of storage across four locations. IT can provision desktops instantaneously.
Wipro will scale it up as it continues rolling out VirtuaDesk
DaaS to other employees, taking advantage of the scalability Increased automation with VirtuaDesk DaaS saves effort on
of the base implementation. production support tasks. Most of the savings in hardware
come from storage, which accounts for approximately
Benefits 60 percent of the typical per-seat hardware cost of a VDI
deployment.
Wipro’s employees see no difference between their PCs and
their new virtual desktops, but they do experience greater Wipro has already begun to see cost savings from deploying
flexibility and improved performance. They appreciate that VirtuaDesk DaaS and NexentaStor and expects those to increase
they can now use different devices to access their desktops as it rolls out the solution to more employees. The company
and move seamlessly to another end-point device during is also expecting increased revenues from offering this cost-
maintenance and continue working. This transformation effective, high-performing VirtuaDesk DaaS to its customers.
of the work environment from a fixed-seat to a location-
independent workspace also enables better collaboration
among Wipro’s engineers, helping them to form virtual
teams with people in different locations.
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