From desktop headaches to less than £1 a week - how TWM Solicitors transformed endpoint management
A move combining Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and thin client has slashed the lifetime cost of each of UK legal firm TWM Solicitors LLP’s endpoints to less than £1 a week, says its Head of IT.
That’s because at approximately £450 per all his 240 thin clients and an eight or nine-year lifespan, annualized cost works out at around £50 per year.
The switch has also meant the effective disappearance of all the Surrey-based SMB’s desktop-management overhead, as well as delivering centralized control, much higher security, and other cost and efficiency savings.
These include, says the firm’s internal tech leader, Alan Barrett, a much easier time for his four-person IT team - such as vastly reduced engineer time and travel, as well as greatly simplified device replacement and upgrade cycles.
The move to cloud has also inaugurated a much better user experience, he says, noting:
It’s a huge gain for...
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