Case Study: C&S Companies achieves new levels of business agility with Workspot GPU Cloud Workstations

Top AEC Firm Adopts GPU Cloud Workstations, Achieves New Levels of Business Agility

C&S Companies, a 50‑year AEC firm with nearly 500 staff across 30+ locations and more than 300 CAD designers, needed to open five branch offices quickly and support remote/co‑workspace users while delivering local‑workstation performance for AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D and Bentley. After roughly a decade using legacy VDI that demanded hundreds of hours of administration and still fell short on CAD performance, the firm sought a simpler, secure way to maintain productivity and business continuity.

C&S deployed Workspot Workstation Cloud alongside Panzura on Microsoft Azure, delivering GPU cloud workstations to lightweight devices so engineers experience “local” performance from anywhere. The move eliminated heavy VDI administration, cut hard hardware costs (ROI >4x), sped up office spin‑ups, improved partner collaboration, strengthened data continuity, and freed IT to focus on strategic initiatives.

C&S Companies

Eric Quinn

Director of IT