Case Study: EU Services achieves blazing VDI performance, five‑minute provisioning and lower costs with HPE Nimble Storage

EU Services Achieves Blazing VDI Performance While Slashing Cost and Complexity

EU Services, a direct-mail and print provider, faced aging PCs, rising management overhead and a business need to support mobile and remote workers with virtual desktops. After moving to VMware View, the company found its legacy SAN couldn’t scale past ~50 VDI users and suffered serious performance, provisioning and backup problems that drove helpdesk volume and long recovery times.

EU Services deployed Nimble Storage flash-enabled arrays alongside VMware View, delivering fast, reliable VDI: new desktops provision in five minutes (down from two hours), boots complete in under a minute, and performance-related helpdesk calls dropped ~50%. Snapshots cut nightly backup windows from 10–15 hours to seconds, enabling sub-five-minute server recoveries, $20K annual backup savings, deferred $50K in storage purchases and ample headroom for growth.

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