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Cadbury's, the global confectionery business puts Desktop Virtualisation on their road map prior to Kraft takeover.
January 27, 2010
In the lead up to the major takeover by Kraft, UKN Group the Desktop Virtualisation specialists based in Basingstoke, helped Cadbury’s assess future strategies for their global workforce. UKN experts worked with Cadbury’s worldwide IT division across the UK, America and Latin America to help them understand a range of virtual desktop technologies that would enable the 80,000 strong organisation to rationalise costs and establish a robust forward strategy which addressed its daily computing requirements.
By assessing and carrying out detailed analysis of the company’s global cost centres, UKN’s VDI team formalised a business case and action plan for a restructuring of technology resources across the organisation’s three key geographic regions.
As part of this process Cadbury’s piloted a system based on Sun Microsystems Sun Ray 2 thin client terminals and Sun Fire Servers. The system was engineered to provide the IT executive group a view of how desktop virtualisation could be implemented.
Offices in New York, Mexico and Bournville in the UK were all provided with the necessary components for the global Pilot . UKN also worked with Cadbury to build a comparison between a number of virtual and remote desktop delivery mechanisms in order to demonstrate the effective ROI and TCO savings of the UKN solution.
