Case Study: ISOS Housing Group achieves 20X faster application performance and 24X faster logins with SanDisk

Isos Housing Constructs Elegant Vdi Solution

Isos Housing, a not‑for‑profit landlord formed from four merged providers in the North East of England, needed to consolidate disparate IT environments and migrate 300 staff to a single virtual desktop infrastructure without disrupting users. The team required an easy physical-to-virtual migration, workstation-level performance, SAN-free persistent desktops, high availability, and predictable cost and capacity planning.

They deployed VMware Horizon View with Fusion ioMemory ioDrive Duo cards across six servers, enabling transparent overnight migrations and up to 120 desktops per server. The roll‑out delivered dramatic gains: 24× faster logins (10s vs 240s), 20× faster app load times (1s vs 20s), 24× faster disaster recovery (2h vs 48h), a 50% drop in service‑desk requests, persistent user desktops via VMware Persona, and predictable linear scaling that reduced hardware and management costs.

ISOS Housing Group

Iain Knott

Transitional and Technical Supervisor