Case Study: Bath & North East Somerset Council achieves 50% lower storage costs and faster performance for 1,500 virtual desktops with Atlantis Computing

Atlantis Reduces Storage Costs and Improves Performance of Over 1500 Virtual Desktops

Bath & North East Somerset Council, a unitary authority serving over 176,000 people, planned a move to virtual desktops to cut costs, support mobile working and reduce carbon emissions. The VDI project was threatened by the storage requirements for more than 30 TB of virtualized data—an approach that would have required over 250 new SAN disks and significant capital and operating expense.

Working with IT provider Cetus, the council deployed Atlantis HyperDup software-defined storage to cut I/O by up to 95% and halve the projected storage capex, avoiding additional disks. Deployed in-memory, the solution supported 1,500 concurrent virtual desktops on existing storage, reduced logins from as long as 10 minutes to under one minute, saved IT staff 1–2 hours per week, and enabled a switch to low‑power thin clients, lowering power, cooling costs and emissions.

Bath & North East Somerset Council

Imram Iqbal

Solution Architect