It’s never been more important for end users to have consistent and reliable access to their applications and data. But managing large end point environments creates challenges, costs, and complexity for I&O professionals. Organizations undergoing an EUC transformation, adopting BYOD or CYOD policies, or pursuing digital transformation initiatives are ripe for a VDI deployment. Forrester sees tremendous interest by infrastructure decision makers in moving VDI workloads to the public cloud or by running VDI in a hybrid environment, in order to reduce infrastructure costs and compensate for the lack of skilled IT staff that VDI requires. Unfortunately, many VDI projects stall, fail, or never get off the ground due to their complexity, cost, and poor user experience, which undermines why an organization turned to VDI in the first place.

Nutanix provides two solutions for end user computing that are built on its hyperconverged infrastructure: VDI and desktop-as-a-service (DaaS). Unlike previous VDI deployments built on traditional three-tier architecture (storage, networking, compute), customers use these virtual desktop options to quickly scale business operations, empower employees with secure access to desktops, apps, and data, and simplify infrastructure management. Built on Nutanix hyperconverged architecture, customers avoid the traditional three-tier architectural challenges, instead purchasing building blocks of dense storage, compute (CPU), and memory (RAM) to scale when needed.

Nutanix commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying a Nutanix solution for End User Computing. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the investment on their organizations.