Most of the work that Southland Industries roughly 4,000 employees do tends to be hands-on, performing MEP installations on projects across the U.S. But that work can’t happen without the labor of its team of designers, building out and detailing the BIM models that make it possible for the company to integrate its work within larger projects.
But the company was hitting the upper limits of what fully upgraded desktop PCs can perform, and it was cutting into the bottom line. “We have to have a level of performance our users are comfortable with,” explains Israel Sumano, Southland's senior director of infrastructure services. “We had looked at the cloud before, but we were waiting for the technology to catch up with our needs.”