Case Study: US Housing Developer achieves disruption-free Windows 8 migration in 3 weeks with 1E's Nomad

Housing developer achieves disruption free Windows 8 migration in just 3 weeks

A U.S. housing developer that has delivered affordable housing across the Midwest and West for nearly 30 years (about 17,000 units) needed a better way to upgrade its desktops to Windows 8. After a manual Windows 7 rollout, the IT team wanted automation to speed migration, improve the user experience, and reduce investment in new servers and ongoing OS maintenance.

By deploying Nomad, the company completed the Windows 8 upgrade in just three weeks with zero user disruption, allowing IT to focus on training users. Nomad used client workstations and unused WAN bandwidth to distribute OS images and patches, avoiding 77 new distribution points, integrating the migration into BAU, streamlining infrastructure and delivering over $354k in operational, migration and energy savings.