Grimshaw moves to Inevidesk VDI platform

Global design practice migrates hundreds of workstations to virtualised workstation environment

Grimshaw has completed the migration of its UK and European design teams onto Inevidesk’s virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform.

The move marks the replacement of a centralised estate of rack-mounted physical workstations with Inevidesk’s fully virtualised workstation environment.

Grimshaw had evaluated VDI previously but, as Danny Gillmore, head of IT at Grimshaw, explains, found it ill-suited to real-world design workloads. “Conventional VDI solutions tend to struggle with the realities of architectural work – GPU contention, inconsistent performance, high operational complexity, and escalating cost.

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“What differentiated Inevidesk was its ability to deliver genuine workstation-level performance through virtualisation, without introducing the fragility or administrative overhead we’d seen elsewhere.”

Before committing at scale, Grimshaw deployed a limited number of Inevidesk ‘pods’ in 2024 to support its visualisation team. At the next refresh cycle, Grimshaw expanded the deployment across approximately 220 designers, migrating them to Inevidesk virtual desktops.

“The contrast with previous physical workstation migrations was stark,” says Gillmore. “What would previously have taken multiple weeks of staging, imaging, and physical deployment was completed in a matter of days.

“With Inevidesk, we can provision new machines or reallocate CPU, RAM, and GPU resources in minutes. That level of responsiveness simply isn’t possible with physical hardware — and it fundamentally changes how quickly we can respond to evolving project needs.”

Caption: Terra ― The Sustainability Pavilion Expo 2020 Dubai.

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