Case Study: Langs Building Supplies achieves an 80% boost in IT productivity and a mobile workforce with Nutanix

Langs Enables Mobile Workforce with Nutanix

Langs Building Supplies, a Queensland-based, family-owned manufacturer and wholesaler with about 300 staff, faced aging IT after a 2012 spending freeze. Its legacy infrastructure struggled to run complex CAD in virtual environments, thin clients limited true mobility, and IT teams spent excessive time “babysitting” outages instead of supporting the business. Langs needed a reliable, scalable, private‑cloud‑style platform to enable remote CAD work, improve productivity and attract talent.

Langs deployed the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform with NVIDIA GRID GPUs and VMware Horizon View—starting with three nodes and growing to ten—and saw a complete ROI within three months. The new VDI environment returned roughly 80% of IT’s time to strategic work, cut power costs by 96% and rack space by 83%, enabled designers to run CAD on site, improved staff work‑life balance, and expanded the company’s hiring pool across Australia and overseas.

Langs Building Supplies

Matthew Day

Chief Information Officer