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Landis+Gyr, a Winner of the 2022-2023 Cloud Awards for their Workspot multi-cloud DaaS implementation, reduced PC delivery time
July 18, 2023 at 5:30 AM PDT
Landis+Gyr, a Winner of the 2022-2023 Cloud Awards for their Workspot
multi-cloud DaaS implementation, reduced PC delivery time by 75%
The partnership between Workspot, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Intel
transformed Landis+Gyr’s IT infrastructure, accelerating product innovation
and helping their customers reduce carbon emissions, all while reducing some
workload costs by as much as 50%.
Business Wire
CAMPBELL, Calif. -- July 18, 2023
Workspot, the intelligent Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) Platform built for the
multi-cloud era, announced today that Landis+Gyr, an industry leader in energy
management solutions, is meeting its competitive sustainability goals through
cloud adoption and end-user computing modernization with multi-cloud,
multi-region virtual desktops.
Given its extensive portfolio of smart grid technologies that help reduce CO2
emissions, Landis+Gyr sought out IT modernization partners that are tightly
aligned with the company’s commitment to sustainability. To create operational
and business efficiencies, Landis+Gyr decided to move away from on-premises
data centers and move key workloads to the cloud with the goal of greater
agility, stronger security, and more flexibility, while also enhancing the
end-user experience.
With the help of professional services company Accenture, Landis+Gyr began
migrating applications and data from seven data centers into the cloud. In
parallel, Workspot led the end-user computing modernization project. After
evaluating several virtual desktop solutions, the team found them to be
complex to deploy and tedious to manage. Only Workspot could meet their
requirements for global, single pane of glass management, integration with
their preferred security stack, and multi-cloud support. Furthermore, virtual
desktops can now be procured with almost no effort, and the cost for
Landis+Gyr is often 50% lower than provisioning a physical PC.
The Landis+Gyr IT team discovered that Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud could
offer specific capabilities for each of their use cases. For the initial
deployment, software developers used Workspot high-end virtual desktops on
Microsoft Azure, taking advantage of nested virtualization capabilities, while
virtual desktops were also deployed on Google Cloud for use by IT employees
and contractors.
Executive Quotes
Steve Crawford, Senior Cloud Infrastructure Manager, Landis+Gyr said, “We have
been able to take a PC provisioning process that took 5-10 business-days and
reduce it to 1 or 2 days. That’s an average 75% improvement in the time it
takes to deliver a PC into people’s hands. Our VDI modernization project also
improved customer approval ratings due to a lowered delivery time and improved
cost efficiency from a budget perspective. Our IT team manages the global
Workspot deployment from a single pane of glass; a transformational capability
that is not possible with any other virtual desktop solutions on the market.”
“Landis+Gyr shares our values for driving continuous innovation, and I’m very
pleased that our cloud-native DaaS platform met all their requirements and
more, helping them accelerate the evolution of their product line,” said Jimmy
Chang, Chief Product Officer. “In conjunction with our partners, Workspot is
contributing to the broader goal of impacting climate change by better
enabling Landis+Gyr end customers to manage energy consumption.”
Jeremy S. Weinstein, Director of US Cloud Solution Providers at Intel
Corporation confirms, “Performance and scalability continue to be top of mind
for customers around the world. Intel collaborated with Workspot to optimize
their virtual desktop platform offering across public clouds, enabling vCPU
performance on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor-based instances. With these
optimizations, Landis+Gyr can lower their cost, improve performance and
overachieve their scaling needs.”
“Landis+Gyr, Workspot, and Intel partnered with Google Cloud to enable the
next generation of cloud-based energy management solutions for smart
infrastructure and smart cities. Through this partnership, Landis+Gyr and
Google Cloud help utility companies manage grid operations with more
visibility and empower energy consumers to use energy in a more informed and
sustainable way. Our partnership collaboration enables Landis+Gyr to drive
agility and reduce cost over time,” said Scott Barneson, Managing Director,
ISV Sales at Google Cloud.
Learn more about the award winning strategy that Landis+Gyr implemented and
hear more from Steve Crawford in his video testimonial.
About Workspot
Workspot is the only cloud-native, integrated DaaS platform that delivers
enterprise-class virtual desktops and apps from multiple clouds and
on-premises data centers to any device. This innovative service lets IT
securely stream the right compute capabilities for each end user, to any
device, anywhere they want to work. As the only DaaS solution that operates
across all the major public clouds – Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and
Google Cloud – as well as on-premises data centers, Workspot is uniquely
positioned to address today’s remote work challenges by providing a
highly-customizable approach to end-user computing. Simple to deploy, scale
and operate, Workspot’s award winning DaaS solution benefits IT as well as end
users with a seamless work experience that enhances productivity while
maintaining the highest performance standards for intensive workloads. For
more information on Workspot’s modern DaaS solutions please visit our website.
About Landis+Gyr
Landis+Gyr is a leading global provider of integrated energy management
solutions. We measure and analyze energy utilization to generate empowering
analytics for smart grid and infrastructure management, enabling utilities and
consumers to reduce energy consumption. Our innovative and proven portfolio of
software, services and intelligent sensor technology is a key driver to
decarbonize the grid. Having avoided more than 9.5 million tons of CO₂ in FY
2022, Landis+Gyr manages energy better – since 1896. With sales of USD 1.7
billion in FY 2022, Landis+Gyr employs around 7,800 talented people across
five continents. For more information, please visit our website
www.landisgyr.com.
About Intel
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) is an industry leader, creating world-changing technology
that enables global progress and enriches lives. Inspired by Moore’s Law, we
continuously work to advance the design and manufacturing of semiconductors to
help address our customers’ greatest challenges. By embedding intelligence in
the cloud, network, edge and every kind of computing device, we unleash the
potential of data to transform business and society for the better. To learn
more about Intel’s innovations, go to newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.
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