Case Study: The Garabedian Group

The Problem

In 2015, The Garabedian Group asked Myers Network Solutions to investigate ways they could replace their aging terminal server environment. Since they worked primarily in a terminal-based environment, their growth as a company had caused their current system to exhibit significant slowdown. The pronounced slowness was beginning to affect productivity, and it was clear that a new system was needed. As a Certified Public Accountant, The Garabedian Group’s employee’s are frequently working from outside the office and needed a stable, 24/7 platform that they could log into remotely from a moment’s notice. They would also need a platform that would allow them to grow if future events required it.

Armed with information, Myers Network Solutions proposed a cloud-based, terminal server environment using Windows 2012. A system of five interconnected cloud servers formed the backbone of a state-of-the-art server cluster. Beyond just the servers themselves being more powerful, the centerpiece of the proposal was that the servers would be using Microsoft’s Load Balancing technology, which would allow multiple terminal servers to work in tandem to balance the number of users and prevent either server from getting too overloaded. When a user connected, the system would automatically connect it to the terminal server that had more resources available. Since the load-balancing happened on the backend, the user’s experience would be totally seamless. Most of all, if The Garabedian Group decided to expand to the point where two terminal servers were no longer adequate, it would be easy to just simply add an additional server to the cluster to handle the additional load.