Azure Virtual Desktop
Pooled and personal session hosts with autoscale, FSLogix profiles, and image automation.
ExpertiseConsulting, engineering and managed services
Virtualization
Modern VDI and app delivery on Azure Virtual Desktop, VMware, and Citrix, built to be performant, secure, and cost-aware.
7expertise practices
3public clouds: Azure, AWS, GCP
150+professional certifications
01 / Overview
What we do
At a glance
Core platforms
AVD, Windows 365, VMware, Citrix
Typical saving
50% compute via autoscale
Operations
Nerdio, FSLogix, image automation
Engagement
Co-managed or fully managed
We deliver desktops and apps that feel local from anywhere, sized and secured for the way your people actually work.
AVD, Windows 365, VMware Horizon, or Citrix – we design to your apps and licensing, with autoscale and FinOps so you pay for what you use.
How we engage
01
Discover
Scoped, costed assessment before any build.
02
Design
Reference architecture and delivery plan.
03
Deliver
Senior engineers build in evidenced increments.
04
Operate
24x7 managed operations with named owners.
Held · re-earned annually
This expertise is backed by a Microsoft competency audited against real delivery - not a self-declared skill.
About this designation →02 / Capabilities
What's inside the practice
Each capability is a sub-service we scope, deliver, and operate, with the engineering specifics, not brochure lines.
App delivery
MSIX app attach and published apps that decouple software from the desktop image.
Horizon & Citrix
Existing Horizon or Citrix estates modernized or migrated to Azure on your timeline.
Performance & cost
Right-sized host pools, autoscale schedules, and reserved capacity to balance speed and spend.
03 / Reference architecture
How we build it
A reference pattern, not a template. Every layer is tailored to your environment, constraints, and compliance posture.
Access
AVD client, Windows 365, Browser / HTML5
Brokering
Host pools, Connection broker, Gateway
Compute
Session hosts, GPU pools, Autoscale
Images & apps
Golden images, MSIX app attach, FSLogix profiles
Foundation
Azure / VMware, Identity, Profile storage
Cross-cutting
Conditional access
Cost / autoscale
Monitoring
Patching
04 / Technology
Vendor-agnostic by design
We hold deep Microsoft specializations, and we are deliberately multi-vendor. We pick the platform and tooling that fit your outcome, your team, and your constraints, never a single badge.
The stack below is representative; we work with what you already run, and tell you plainly when something should change.
VDI platforms
Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365, VMware Horizon, Citrix
Profiles & apps
FSLogix, MSIX app attach, App Layering
Operations
Nerdio, Autoscale, Azure Monitor
Compute
NVIDIA vGPU, Nutanix, Hyper-V
05 / Engineering standards
We go deep, on purpose
Whatever the practice, the same engineering discipline holds. These are the commitments behind every BITSUMMIT delivery.
Infrastructure as code
Every environment is reproducible: Bicep, Terraform, and Git, never console clicks.
Observability by default
Dashboards, alerts, and SLOs wired in before go-live, not after the first incident.
Security baselines
CIS and Microsoft baselines applied as policy, with drift detection and remediation.
Tested recovery
Backups and failover are proven on a schedule, with named owners and runbooks.
Documented and yours
Architecture decision records and runbooks you own: no black boxes, no lock-in.
FinOps discipline
Cost is a first-class metric: budgets, tagging, and right-sizing from day one.
Standards & frameworks
Built to the standards your auditors check
We build to the standards your auditors, insurers, and regulators actually check – and keep the evidence current between audits.
Right-sized by default
Host pools sized to real usage, with autoscale schedules and reservations balancing speed and spend - you pay for what you use.
Image and profile discipline
Automated image pipelines and FSLogix profiles keep desktops consistent, patchable, and fast to provision.
Designed to your licensing
AVD, Windows 365, VMware, or Citrix - designed to your apps and licensing constraints, with clean migration paths off legacy estates.
Data stays central
Desktops deliver the experience; data stays in the datacenter - nothing sensitive lives on the endpoint.
06 / By the numbers
Outcomes our clients see
50
%
Compute cost cut with autoscale schedules.
5
min
New user to a ready desktop, automated.
0
Data on the endpoint – it stays in the datacenter.
Related expertise
Explore adjacent practices
07 / Case study · Public Sector
Security-First Virtual Desktops for Toronto Police
BITSUMMIT and OnX built Toronto Police Service a governed, security-first Azure Virtual Desktop foundation, pilot-validated and ready for phased rollout.
10
devices
Controlled pilot validation
3
-phase
Governance-aligned delivery
0
Disruption to daily operations
08 / Insights
From the BITSUMMIT blog
09 / FAQ
Questions we hear
What about data security on endpoints?
Nothing sensitive lives on the endpoint - desktops deliver the experience while data stays in the datacenter.
How quickly can a new user get a desktop?
About five minutes from new user to ready desktop, fully automated.
Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365?
We design to your apps and licensing - AVD, Windows 365, VMware, or Citrix, chosen for the way your people actually work.
How do you keep VDI costs under control?
Host pools sized to real usage with autoscale schedules and reservations - compute costs typically drop by about half.
Can users keep working offline?
Windows 365 and local fallback options cover intermittent connectivity; we design for your field realities.
Will it perform for graphics-heavy apps?
Yes – we size GPU-enabled host pools and tune profiles for CAD, design, and data workloads.
Let's break some barriers.
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