Case Study: Greenland Airport Authority achieves centralized, reliable IT and cost savings with Citrix

Greenland Airport Authority - Customer Case Study

Greenland Airport Authority (Mittarfeqarfiit) operates a highly distributed network of two international airports, 11 regional airports, six heliports and 40 helistops across Greenland, many with no on-site IT staff. Poor, expensive and intermittent Internet beyond Nuuk—often relying on line-of-sight radio links and subject to monthly interference—left each location with its own servers, heterogeneous hardware and software, slow updates, frequent outages and security vulnerabilities.

Starting in 2013 they moved to a central Citrix-based environment (XenDesktop, XenApp, ShareFile) with data hosted in Nuuk, reusing existing PCs and adding about 80 thin clients and laptops. The IT team tuned the setup for low-bandwidth links (reduced color depth, disabled frequent clock updates, limited streaming), centralized security and updates, and gained visibility into consumption to negotiate contracts. The result: fewer crashes and virus incidents, simpler management, improved operational efficiency and measurable cost savings; they are now piloting CloudBridge to add document caching.

Greenland Airport Authority

Ole Lindhardt

IT Manager