“Our VPN is slow… and shoddy”

When Driving for Hours is Quicker Than Remote Access

Potato equipment harvesting manufacturer Spudnik is a rural manufacturer with remote engineers and a lot of rural employees with significant commutes to the office.

Recently, company management came to the IT department and told them the existing VPN infrastructure was “slow… and shoddy”.

Managers who had to make a quick system update or two on evenings and weekends found it was faster to make the long drive to the office and home again than using the remote access over VPN. Engineers found VPN latency to CAD and ERP systems unusable.

Million Dollar Delays

For Spudnik, the need for employees and managers to remotely access systems after hours resulted in delays. Delays in designs. Delays in operations. Delays in reporting. Delays in business.

For a manufacturing company with estimated annual revenues of $50 million, each week of delay can cost the company up to $1 million.

Fast and Affordable Remote Desktop Solution

Manufacturing delays can significantly impact an organization’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Source: Strategic Finance Magazine

Without needing to invest time and money into a new infrastructure, Spudnik was able to set up TruGrid SecureRDP in hours — not days.

Matthew Hayes, IT Support Specialist at Spudnik, says, “With TruGrid, we were able to use our existing infrastructure and have people work from home in a secure way with quick access to all the onsite services they needed.”

Adds Adam Lott, IT Support Specialist at Spudnik, “And as a bonus, we keep all of our confidential data onsite.”