Case Study: Vanquis Bank achieves 52% cost savings and secure, efficient Azure Virtual Desktop access with Nerdio

Vanquis Bank’s Innovative Approach to Remote Access With Nerdio and Azure Virtual Desktop

Vanquis Bank, a UK financial services firm with about 1.7 million customers, faced poor user experience and an aging on‑premises remote access infrastructure that needed migration to the cloud. Seeking secure, reliable virtual desktop access for nearly 2,000 seats and granular host‑pool controls, the bank adopted Azure Virtual Desktop and partnered with Nerdio, deploying Nerdio Manager for Enterprise to fill gaps in staffing and management.

Nerdio Manager for Enterprise automated provisioning, auto‑scaling and optimization while fitting into Vanquis Bank’s Microsoft ecosystem, enabling 86 host pools and 503 machines to be managed by as few as three engineers and empowering the Help Desk to triage issues directly. Nerdio’s solution improved performance and stability for end users and drove measurable savings — roughly 52% cost reduction, nearly $64,000 monthly, with pooled machines costing about $30 per user per month versus nearly twice that for personal machines.

Vanquis Bank

Vikki Palmer

Client Engineering Lead