Case Study: Asda scales to 5,000+ desktops and cuts cloud costs with Nerdio and Azure Virtual Desktop

Asda scales to 5,000+ AVD desktops and saves £56,000 a month with Nerdio

Asda, a major UK supermarket chain, faced the challenge of transitioning from costly on-premises infrastructure to a scalable, cloud-native environment to support its rapid growth. Their existing VMware Horizon solution was too expensive and rigid. They chose Azure Virtual Desktop for its cost-effectiveness but needed a management tool to handle their large-scale deployment, leading them to the vendor Nerdio and its product Nerdio Manager for Enterprise.

Nerdio implemented its solution to automate AVD management tasks, introduce auto-scaling, and streamline security updates. This resulted in massive cost savings of over £56,000 per month and enabled Asda to scale from 400 to over 5,000 dedicated desktops, supporting up to 7,000 monthly users. The Nerdio platform significantly reduced administrative workload, creating one of the largest AVD deployments in the UK.

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