Phoenix Rises on Virtualization Initiative: Case Study
Claudiu Budurlean oversees a successful Virtual Client Computing (VCC) initiative for Apollo Group, the company whose flagship University of Phoenix is a leader in for-profit, post-secondary education. Now serving as Apollo’s technical director of client computing technologies, he has more than 15 years in the industry, and was previously responsible for 140,000 endpoint devices in 220 countries for logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL.
But Budurlean says the 22,000-desktop virtualization project he’s managing at Apollo is one of the most complex projects of his career, and success is coming only after what he calls Herculean efforts by his team. The biggest single challenge: nearly 100 proprietary applications, many developed for Microsoft Windows* XP and Internet Explorer* (IE) 6.0. As an industry pioneer, Apollo considers those applications critical for its business success—but they caused significant problems for the virtualization team and at one point forced a change in strategy. “We sank our teeth into those applications,” Budurlean jokes. “We broke our teeth on them.”
Standardize and Virtualize
Budurlean came to Apollo Group in 2008 as part of a wave of change that also brought a new CIO and a commitment to modernize the technology foundation and position Apollo for further growth. Joining the enterprise architecture strategy team, Budurlean developed a plan to standardize, automate, and optimize the enterprise desktop. By 2010 he was leading both the VCC project and a closely interconnected desktop refresh (DTR) initiative.
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Phoenix Rises on Virtualization Initiative: Case Study
Claudiu Budurlean oversees a successful Virtual Client Computing (VCC) initiative for Apollo Group, the company whose flagship University of Phoenix is a leader in for-profit, post-secondary education. Now serving as Apollo’s technical director of client computing technologies, he has more than 15 years in the industry, and was previously responsible for 140,000 endpoint devices in 220 countries for logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL.
But Budurlean says the 22,000-desktop virtualization project he’s managing at Apollo is one of the most complex projects of his career, and success is coming only after what he calls Herculean efforts by his team. The biggest single challenge: nearly 100 proprietary applications, many developed for Microsoft Windows* XP and Internet Explorer* (IE) 6.0. As an industry pioneer, Apollo considers those applications critical for its business success—but they caused significant problems for the virtualization team and at one point forced a change in strategy. “We sank our teeth into those applications,” Budurlean jokes. “We broke our teeth on them.”
Standardize and Virtualize
Budurlean came to Apollo Group in 2008 as part of a wave of change that also brought a new CIO and a commitment to modernize the technology foundation and position Apollo for further growth. Joining the enterprise architecture strategy team, Budurlean developed a plan to standardize, automate, and optimize the enterprise desktop. By 2010 he was leading both the VCC project and a closely interconnected desktop refresh (DTR) initiative.
Read the full Phoenix Rises on Virtualization Initiative Case Study.
