A consulting firm used an acquisition to open two new offices simultaneously. With VulcanCloud DaaS, every new employee was operational within 24 hours of joining — no hardware procurement, no server setup, no imaging delays.
Stratford Consulting Group (name changed) had operated as a single-office management consulting firm for 11 years when a strategic acquisition opportunity put two new offices on the table simultaneously — one in a city 200 miles away, one across the country. The principals had 90 days from deal close to have both locations operational with full staff.
The firm was already operating on VulcanCloud DaaS at their headquarters. The question was how to extend that same environment to 40 new employees across two geographically dispersed offices — fast.
Under the old model, this would have meant: server procurement for both new offices (6–8 week lead time alone), IT contractor dispatch to each location, workstation imaging, network setup, application installation, and user training. The 90-day timeline would have been extremely tight — industry benchmarks put traditional desktop provisioning at 2–3 weeks per location — and the hardware cost alone for two new server environments would have run $80,000–$120,000 before labor. The 90-day close requirement made that approach essentially impossible.
Because the firm was already on VulcanCloud, expansion was a configuration exercise, not a hardware project. VulcanCloud provisioned 40 new user seats in the existing environment. Each new employee's virtual desktop was configured with the firm's standard application stack — project management tools, document systems, communication platforms — before their first day.
New employees at both locations logged in on day one using any available device — a personal laptop, a company-issued thin client, or a workstation — and immediately had access to the same environment as HQ colleagues. No imaging. No waiting on hardware delivery. No IT contractor on-site.
VulcanCloud's network virtualization team extended secure, encrypted connectivity to both new office locations, establishing VLANs and enforcing consistent security policies across all three sites from a single management console.
"We opened two offices on opposite ends of the country in three months and neither one required an IT truck. We just added users and gave them login credentials. That used to be a two-month project." — COO, Stratford Consulting Group
Both offices opened on schedule with all 40 new employees operational within 24 hours of their start date. Hardware expenditure for new office IT was zero — employees used whatever device they had on day one, with thin clients ordered as a follow-up for workstations. The three-location firm is managed from a single VulcanCloud console, with one IT resource maintaining what would previously have required on-site staff at each location.
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