Australian IT infrastructure provider CMTG cut its CPU utilization by 70 percent after migrating its Perth private cloud to Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers powered by AMD EPYC 9475F processors. Completed overnight without disrupting customers, the infrastructure refresh also reduced RAM usage by 10 percent while boosting virtual desktop performance to 60 frames per second.
CMTG Cuts CPU Utilization by 70 Percent With Hardware Overhaul
Founded in 1998, Perth-based managed service provider CMTG faced aging hardware approaching the end of its service life in the competitive managed cloud market.
The company provides private cloud systems, data storage, application hosting, and virtual desktop infrastructure to small and medium-sized businesses across Australia. The company selected Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers equipped with AMD EPYC 9475F (Turin) processors.
Alongside the 70 percent drop in CPU utilization, the platform upgrade reduced RAM usage by 10 percent. This efficiency gain freed up vital operating headroom while maintaining VMware and Citrix virtualization layers across the environment.
Lenovo XClarity Pro Tools Automate Overnight Migration
Infrastructure transitions typically carry a high risk of downtime for enterprise clients, but CMTG executed this cutover without incident. Relying on Lenovo XClarity Pro infrastructure management software to automate deployment and migration workflows, the engineering team completed the switchover in a single night.
Lenovo has been a great help to us throughout this lengthy process. They are the most responsive vendor we have ever worked with. The XClarity management tools are very easy to deploy and effective at providing crucial insights into our infrastructure.
Stephen Doney, Client & Vendor Relationship Manager CMTG, via Laptophia
To balance capital expenditures during the hardware refresh, CMTG also adopted a flexible financing model through Lenovo Global Financial Services.
New Hardware Boosts Application Speeds and VDI Benchmarks
End users noticed the performance delta immediately after the new hardware went live, with the morning after the cutover bringing inquiries from customers asking what changes had been made.
Clients running demanding graphics applications like Computer-Aided Design through the company’s virtual desktop infrastructure experienced much higher responsiveness, even on endpoint hardware normally unsuited for heavy graphical tasks. In Citrix Windows 11 VDI benchmark testing, the upgraded environment locked in a stable 60 frames per second, hitting the maximum ceiling permitted by the Citrix platform.
SQL-based reporting workloads saw dramatic execution time reductions, with customers reporting reports running up to three times faster.
Moving to Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 servers powered by AMD EPYC processors is night and day as far as performance is concerned, both for us and our customers.
Carl Filpo, Managing Director, CMTG, via Channellife
Technical Sales Manager Nick Hughes noted that the server environment maintained zero performance degradation or bottlenecks even when configured at a 2:1 core contention ratio during initial staging.
Refreshed Platform Supports Secure Australia-Hosted AI Workloads
Beyond virtual desktop improvements, CMTG designed the refreshed platform to support emerging artificial intelligence services within a secure, Australia-hosted environment under managed control.
As enterprises bring AI into production, the conversation is shifting from simply adding more compute to building infrastructure that delivers the right balance of performance, efficiency and operational control.
Alexey Navolokin, General Manager, Sales, APAC, AMD, via Channellife
AMD noted that the same server CPUs improving virtual desktop performance today provide the necessary compute foundation for future AI services.