As-a-Service Solution for Hosted Desktops From Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group With Nutanix

Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) with Nutanix, Inc. ⁽¹⁾ announces an as-a-service solution for Hosted Desktops to help IT decision makers thrive in the remote hybrid workforce model.

According to the company’s recently released Future of Work and Digital Transformation study, 83% of businesses expect post-pandemic work to be remote at least half the time. TruScale, firm’s first solution for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix, provides companies with a complete and more secure remote work solution. A choice of the company’s client devices is offered, such as thin clients and PCs, choice of Citrix Systems, Inc.; and other virtual desktop environments, and ThinkAgile HX Series (powered by Nutanix), all licensed to the end user and managed as-a-service. The complete Hosted Desktops solution provides cloud-like simplicity and on-premises performance, with the convenience of a single monthly payment and point of contact for support.

Thinkagile HX Series appliances

“Many organizations are modernizing their IT infrastructures to support the growing demands remote work continues to place on their IT systems,” said Kirk Skaugen, EVP, Lenovo Group, and president, infrastructure solutions group. “We are seeing a shift where customers are more interested in as-a-service models to help offset the investment associated with upgrading their IT systems quickly. Lenovo’s collaboration with Nutanix provides customers with a more secure, Hosted Desktop as-a-service solution that is easy to secure, deploy and manage with minimal up-front costs.“

Over the past few years and especially during this global pandemic, industries such as healthcare require the ability to complete more administrative and clinical activities remotely, with added safety and security. Fraser Health Authority, one of Canada’s largest and fastest growing health authorities servicing 1.8 million people in British Columbia, revitalized their data center with Lenovo and Nutanix to ensure high-quality patient services during a province-wide lockdown.

“We see that remote connectivity is more than just a short-term response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It’s part of our long-term strategy to ensure we can deliver vital health services no matter what,” said Wesley Kampff, portfolio manager, Fraser Health Authority. “To streamline maintenance and support, our preference was to engage a single vendor to deliver the workstations and data center solutions. We were confident that replacing our traditional three-tier architecture with the cutting-edge ThinkAgile HX hyperconverged platform, with Nutanix, would offer the performance, availability and scalability we wanted.“

Secure desktop delivery with cloud-like consumption frees up IT resources
Data security continues to rank as the topmost time-consuming challenge among IT departments, especially in a remote work environment. Designed to support industries, including healthcare, education and SMB, TruScale for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix solutions provide cloud-like capabilities with infrastructure on premises, for companies with data privacy compliance or regulatory concerns. The firm offers predictable costs through monthly billing to accelerate time-to-value and reduce upfront business expenses. The full solution is available, which includes ThinkAgile HX systems supported by software stacks in partnership with Nutanix and Citrix and Lenovo thin clients or PCs, all available via TruScale as-a-service:

• Simplicity of complete and managed solution: Incorporating devices, data center infrastructure and infrastructure managed services, the Hosted Desktops solution provides predictable, fixed monthly charges, and reduces up-front investment to better align costs with business outcomes.

• Improved productivity: TruScale for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix reduces ongoing management costs within the hosted environment. The company‘s services team handles all aspects of the engagement from ‘Professional Services’ that helps customers right-size and design a successful migration strategy, through to the end-of-life asset removal. The firm’s Managed Services ensures the infrastructure operates 24/7, freeing up IT administrators’ time to focus on strategic priorities.

• Reduce infrastructure management costs by as much as 62%: TruScale for Hosted Desktops with Nutanix, running on reliable ThinkAgile HX systems with Nutanix cloud platform software, reduces price per user by co-locating compute, storage and virtualization on a single cluster thus simplifying operations.

“As businesses worldwide look for the way forward beyond this pandemic, they need technology partners to help them embrace the future of work and thrive in a hybrid work model which will be the standard for many organizations,” said Tarkan Maner, chief commercial officer, Nutanix. “Lenovo’s strategic collaboration with Nutanix provides customers an end-to-end solution ‘from the hybrid cloud data centers to digital workspaces’ to empower employees wherever they are, while also offering businesses a simplified consumption model through Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure Services, along with increased flexibility, scalability, performance, and security to navigate the challenges of a distributed workforce.“

Built on Enterprise ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolio, TruScale Infrastructure Services can tackle any workload or deployment size and can scale for flexibility.

⁽¹⁾ Hosted Desktop solution runs on Lenovo infrastructure.