Case Study: Make-A-Wish UK achieves 40% Azure cost savings and faster volunteer provisioning with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

Make-A-Wish UK’s Digital Transformation With Nerdio

Make-A-Wish UK (Make-A-Wish), a UK not-for-profit granting wishes to critically unwell children, needed to migrate to the cloud and adopt a BYOD/thin-client model so volunteers could securely and reliably access workspaces without the cost and overhead of managing large volumes of physical hardware. The charity chose Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and selected Nerdio as the management platform—deploying Nerdio Manager for Enterprise—to simplify AVD’s complexity and enable scalable, low-touch IT for a fluctuating volunteer workforce.

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise automated AVD operations (auto-scaling, rapid VM provisioning, and Unified Application Management), making volunteer onboarding faster and virtually invisible to users while cutting costs and energy use. With Nerdio, Make-A-Wish reduced its Azure bill by about 40%, provisioned thin clients that are roughly two-thirds more energy efficient than traditional desktops/laptops, and dramatically lowered admin time on routine updates—freeing funds and staff time to deliver more wishes.

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Oliver Wilson

Technology & Workplace Lead