Case Study: Radius Recycling achieves reduced carbon footprint and $3,000/month Azure cost savings with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

How Radius Recycling Reduced Carbon Footprint and Azure Costs with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

Radius Recycling, one of North America’s largest recycled metal manufacturers and operators of 50 Pick-n-Pull lots, was struggling with an unstable legacy VDI environment and Windows 2008 servers that hosted mission‑critical, in‑house apps. Joel Brown, Cloud System Engineer, was the lone IT resource tasked with migrating the main SQL server to Azure and rebuilding apps for Windows 10—a slow, manual, and error‑prone process—until he discovered Nerdio and its Nerdio Manager for Enterprise.

Nerdio deployed Nerdio Manager for Enterprise from the Azure Marketplace to automate Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) deployments, scale compute to usage, and simplify administration. As a result, Radius now manages 500+ monthly active AVD users, cuts roughly $3,000/month in compute costs, reduces its carbon footprint through automatic scaling, and saves an estimated 4–6 hours per deployment while improving end‑user experience and reducing help‑desk tickets.

Radius Recycling

Joel Brown

Cloud System Engineer