KPF Chooses Xi Frame for High-End Graphics Support
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) is a global architecture firm headquartered in New
York, with offices in London, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Abu Dhabi. The
firm specializes in skyscrapers and other big, collaborative projects, relying on
more than 25 graphics-intensive applications including well-known software
tools from Adobe and Autodesk.
After initially struggling with on-premises VDI alone, the firm discovered Xi
Frame. The combination of Xi Frame and Panzura cloud storage allows KPF
employees to access the applications they need, even when they are working
at home or at a customer site.
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Autodesk Leverages Xi Frame for a Variety of Use Cases
If you've ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper,
used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you've experienced
the results of Autodesk software. This leading ISV relies on Xi Frame for a vari-
ety of use cases including:
• Autodesk University. It used to take the company a week and thousands of
hours of labor to set up hundreds of high-powered workstations for its
annual user conference . Switching to Xi Frame saved Autodesk time, effort,
and money.
• Beta testing. Historically, participants had to download and install pre-pro
duction software to try out the latest updates. This limited the frequency
and amount of feedback that could be collected. Autodesk chose Xi Frame
to virtualize applications for beta testing because it makes it simple to in
stantly reach customers around the world with the latest software.
Government
Governments are increasingly moving from traditional on-premises IT to public and
private cloud deployments. DaaS allows government IT teams to take advantage of
cloud-hosted solutions.
With a fully managed, turn-key solution, Xi Frame helps US Government
organizations by eliminating the need for large capital expenditures and greatly
reducing administrative complexity, allowing government IT teams to focus on
mission-impacting problems. Because no data is stored locally on a user's device,
Xi Frame improves data security. All data remains within the confines of a secure
government cloud, and the solution has been hardened to address government
security regulations.
With Xi Frame, government workers are able to take advantage of a modern,
secure solution that delivers advanced capabilities to practically any location on
Earth.
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and SaaS
ISVs find Xi Frame to be extremely useful in several ways:
• Quickly SaaS-ify Applications. Many ISVs want to move to a software-as-a-service
model for their applications. Xi Frame enables you to make your application
available from the cloud with minimal or no changes to the base software.
• Support Workshops and Training. If your organization holds regular workshops,
trainings, user groups, or conferences, Xi Frame makes it simple to host full user
sessions that allow attendees to see and try all the capabilities of your software,
while minimizing or eliminating the need to ship a lot of specialized hardware to
the site.
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