Computle vs VDI: An Insight Into our Engineering and How This Improves Performance and Reduces Cost

I'm Jake, the founder of Computle. I have a decade of experience within virtualised computing. Over the years, I have worked for heavyweights such as Microsoft and deployed virtualised computing for RSHP, the NHS, and Aviva.

Historically, the performance of Virtualised Destop Infrastructure (VDI) has often limited its use cases to CPU-focused tasks. Whilst some companies have added graphics acceleration, they have done do using off-the-shelf hardware.

This results in overallocation of resources, slow performance, and red-herrings of cost savings. To quote one competitor, their platform should not be used for CPU intensive tasks as they purposefully overallocated their servers.

To truly innovate, Computle operates entirely differently, engineering the entire end-to-end supply chain. In this post, I'll share how that delivers performance increases with a significant reduction in the total cost of ownership.

1) Computle's Patentable Hardware Delivers Dedicated Performance

A typical VDI provider will purchase off-the-shelf servers or workstations, cram a bunch of virtual machines onto them, and place them in a data centre.

Whilst this is fine for some use cases, when you start to scale the service or use more demanding application, the platform's users start to face significant barriers and bottlenecks.

• You'll experience CPU, GPU and disk contention.
• Your costs will be significantly more than a regular computer or workstation.
• And you will inefficiently utilise data centre space, resulting in poor-cost optimisations and a difficultly adding more nodes efficiently.

Computle took a different approach from day one.

At the outset of Computle's foundation, Jake engineered his own hardware, placing an emphasis on dedicated, single-user servers/workstations.

We are now on revision four of our hardware, and currently operate Computle from a series of blade workstations, each equipped with:

• A dedicated CPU;
• A dedidicated GPU;
• And a dedicated NVMe and RAM modules.

Because of this, each Computle seat delivers unparalleled performance compared to VDIs, with each seat/user having dedicated access to an entire blade workstation.

2) Computle's Supply Chain Reduces Costs

As detailed in my other blog - Visiting China - Computle owns our entire end-to-end supply chain, maintaining direct relationships with our manufacturing partners.

As such, we can report in great detail:

• The address of the factory that made our motherboards;
• The address of the factory that made our RAM and storage devices;
• And even the address of the factory that made our patch cables.

This obsessive detail ensures that our supply chain is free of labour issues, and also enables us to reduce costs for our customers. That's why we are around 56% cheaper than off-the-shelf workstations.

Compared to VDIs, we are cheaper than all major public clouds, cheaper than in-house delivery of this service, and cheaper than our direct competitors.

3) Our Network Spans The Globe

To truly offer a replacement for the workstation computer, we operate Computle from a network of global data centres, placing workstations within close proximity to our client's offices. At the time of writing, Computle operates Points of Presence within the United Kingdom, New York and California, with plans to add seats in Asia during 2025.

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