Case Study: Canterbury Christ Church University achieves rapid AVD scaling and 70% compute cost savings with Nerdio Manager for Enterprise

Simplifying AVD for Canterbury Christ Church University

Canterbury Christ Church University, a UK institution serving about 26,000 students and just over 1,800 staff with a 68‑person IT team, needed to move from on‑premises RDS to a cloud‑first model to support hybrid working, multi‑campus access (including the Kent and Medway Medical School) and high‑performance apps for STEM courses. After adopting Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop, the university sought a simpler, automated management layer — and evaluated Nerdio, specifically Nerdio Manager for Enterprise, to streamline AVD operations.

Nerdio implemented Nerdio Manager for Enterprise on the university’s AVD environment, importing eight host pools during the proof‑of‑concept and providing a single portal for automation and management. The solution cut complexity, enabled bespoke host pools, and delivered measurable gains: auto‑scaling saved about 70% for a high‑performance engineering host pool, new host pools are now provisioned in less than a day (versus weeks), updates take two clicks, and support tickets have decreased while user experience and IT agility improved.

Canterbury Christ Church University