To surmount these, the team employed a staged approach to deploy a wall-to-wall VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) environment – rolling out Workspace on Dell thin clients – to address its EUC (end user computing) needs upgraded the backend to vSphere 6 on Tintri and deployed VMware Mirage with Commvault to assist with backups, product migrations and refreshes. Key among the challenges facing Ster-Kinekor were: lengthy IT support times a costly mobile environment and no visibility and control. So the embattled IT department, with its partner VMXperts, turned to suppliers Dell and VMware to look at leveraging their desktop virtualisation strategies. Yet the need remained pressing to transform this environment, in which it took IT on average two weeks to load Windows onto a machine, and the mere mention of IT evoked emotions ranging from anger to loathing among end-users. “We couldn’t afford the solutions being proffered and were unwilling to sign-up for 15-years of technical debt.” “The situation was bleak and when quotes began coming in to replace 150 high-end laptops, update infrastructure, backup and recovery, and expedite product update deployments and refresh cycles – it seemed insurmountable,” said Andre Potgieter, IT Executive at Ster-Kinekor Entertainment. How, then, to achieve digital transformation?
GADGET PAST AS FUTURE VIRTUALMACHINE MOVIE
Ster-Kinekor showed us how it was able to update its infrastructure without breaking the bank.īut Ster-Kinekor, South Africa’s main movie distributor, was labouring with an IT ecosystem comprising dated infrastructure, characterised by a poor end user experience, no workload mobility, and abysmal support times. When a company is operating at the cutting edge of entertainment, it also needs cutting edge technology to keep the business running.
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