Artnet ultimately decided to leverage itopia to deploy and manage their cloud infrastructure. This enabled employees to remotely access mission-critical information and proprietary applications necessary for continued productivity. It also simplified the IT staff’s remote management of the employees’ digital workspaces.
More specifically, itopia’s cloud automation and orchestration platform provided Artnet’s IT staff a single, unified control panel to streamline the process of remotely managing the new VDI environment. This novel approach to VDI management allowed Artnet to drastically simplify how it administers Windows workloads and scales infrastructure on-demand on Google Cloud.
The transition to the cloud eliminates excessive hardware costs, enables flexible scalability of resources, and reduces the latency that can slow down remote employees trying to connect to an on-premise data center. The deployment aligns with Artnet’s initiative to downsize its on-premise data center footprint and migrate workloads to Google Cloud.