Case Study: EFES Rus achieves reliable, cost‑efficient nationwide digital workspaces and improved employee productivity with VMware Horizon and vSAN

How to Provide Employees with Reliable Digital Workspaces Across the Country

EFES Rus, a division of Anadolu EFES and one of Russia’s largest brewers with six breweries and over 3,500 employees, needed to strengthen its market position by boosting employee productivity, cutting costs, and ensuring data and infrastructure stability—especially during the summer peak when legacy SAN storage could not handle VDI load.

The company rolled out VMware Horizon VDI, vSAN and vSphere and built two active disaster-recovery sites, creating a unified BYOD digital workspace supporting up to 700 concurrent users. The deployment eliminated storage overloads, improved security and business continuity, reduced IT and licensing costs, and increased employee productivity while lowering IT support effort.

EFES Rus

Alexey Krylov

Infrastructure Architect, Digital Security Officer