Provider of intelligent desktop virtualization solutions, Virtual Computer has revealed that IVG has transformed their desktop computing environment through implementing Virtual Computer NxTop.

IVG is a veterinary hospital group and through utilizing the Virtual Computer NxTop, IVG was able to centrally provision and manage all their PCs and reduce support issues due to PC corruptions or slowness by over 96 percent. In addition, the company was also able to increase productivity for both the IT staff and end-users, according to a press release. 

Over the past two years, the organization had spent a considerable amount of money to improve the company’s infrastructure, including servers, the network and the data center.  However, they could not take full advantage of these improvements without a better virtualization approach to managing the PCs on the front lines. 

Traditionally, non-virtualized PCs face challenges that include patch failures, corruptions, malware, and slowing operation over time.  IVG said that it considered server-hosted VDI with thin clients but found that it required a significant virtualization infrastructure investment, and would require end -user compromises because the thin clients did not offer the same capabilities as fully functioning PCs. 

“After extensive research and testing of desktop virtualization solutions, we found that none of the available server virtualization-based solutions were ideal from usability or cost perspectives,” said Michael Joseph, president at Technium, a managed services firm focus on ITIL-based delivery of solutions. 

Joseph added that Virtual Computer NxTop provided the only solution that was beneficial from both a technology and team perspective.

Ames Prentiss, CEO at IVG Hospitals, said that IVG’s primary mission is to provide the highest level of care to its clients and patients, and the use of technology is critical to delivering on that mission. 

“Virtual Computer enabled us to harness all the benefits that PCs offer while removing all of the typical challenges,” Prentiss said in a statement, adding that the elimination of downtime has increased the amount of hands-on time the doctors can spend focused on the needs of their patients and clients.

This has enabled the organization’s IT virtualization team to direct its energies towards more strategic initiatives for the organization.  Prentiss said that the desktop virtualization company has also increased the agility of the organization as computers are now being deployed to the newest hospital at a fraction of the time it would ordinarily take.

Last month, Virtual Computer was ranked one of the top vendors in the broader desktop virtualization sector along with VMware, Microsoft (News - Alert), and Citrix.