Inefficient collaboration due to multiple offices, remote workers and fixed physical computer resources inhibit delivery. GPU accelerated virtual workstation infrastructure open up capacity and capability through one powerful, responsive platform : the same one Grimshaw, Hopkins Architects, Morris+Company and Rolfe Judd run their studios on.
designers Grimshaw migrated to Inevidesk virtual workstations across its UK and European teams, in days rather than weeks.
lower carbon impact per virtual workstation than an equivalent physical workstation, independently assessed in 2024.
the year Hopkins Architects became the first Inevidesk customer. And fully virtualised and hosted since 2021.
BIM models demand fast local network speeds for efficient collaborative work, but multiple offices create problems of access, syncing and VPN management. Hardware and maintenance spend increases. Security and data management becomes more complex. Office moves a nightmare.
New starters arrive. Project teams compute requirements wax and wane. Workstations are in the wrong office, or the wrong specification. Valuable design time is wasted and expensive compute sits idle.
Hybrid working has spread live models and client information across endpoints, VPNs and personal machines. Clients, insurers and frameworks now ask exactly where project data lives and who can reach it, and ISO 19650 expectations make endpoint sprawl a hard answer to defend.
Lugging workstations from desk to desk. Dealing with replacement and lost laptops. New machine deployments that take hours or full office refreshes that take months. Security incidents due to compromised endpoints. Configuring VPNs to try and link up offices and home workers. No time to deal with longer term, proactive projects to improve the business.
Data, model and workstation resources: all virtualised, all in one location for ease of collaboration, management and security. No syncing, minimal VPNs, no local server equipment to manage. Simpler and more powerful infrastructure for complex organisations.
Virtualised compute resources reconfigured in minutes to deploy to new starters, provide more power to project teams or even assign to private AI models or rendering jobs. These are not fixed workstations, but flexible workstation resources for modern workflows.
Laptops become access devices only and company data does not leave the network. Deploying lightweight, inexpensive devices mitigates the worst problems of laptop loss and theft and demonstrates serious data protection by preventing dispersal.
Manage the entire virtual estate through an intuitive administrative portal that enables rapid machine deployment, integrated access control with Microsoft active directory or Entra ID and easy resource reallocation. All remote, online and a joy to use.
Virtual workstations utilise dedicated GPU acceleration for demanding graphical workflows, including:
Your BIM environment comes with you. Revit worksharing and your file server workflows run exactly as they would on a physical workstation and local server environment.
All product names are trademarks of their respective owners. Running something else? Tell us in the assessment. If it needs a GPU, it is in scope.
Danny Gillmore — Head of Information Technology, Grimshaw
Inevidesk
High performance virtual workstations, accessible from the studio, site, a client’s office or home. Large Revit models and viewport heavy work runs on dedicated GPU resource in the datacentre or server room, not on whatever machine is to hand.
Inevicloud
Servers, project data and applications run on private infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified processes. Your project information stays off endpoints and where you can account for it.
Migration
No rip and replace, no big bang cutover, no disruption to live projects necessary. Inevitech services are designed for incremental adoption and whatever pace an organisation needs. Deploy hundreds of workstations over a weekend, or a handful over a year.
The technical and the financial cases for decisions about infrastructure are different, and both have to stand up.
Track A
Genuine workstation level resources: Threadripper Pro CPU, Nvidia RTX GPU, ECC RAM, fast enterprise level SSD storage and 10Gbps throughput.
Rapid deployment and resource reconfiguration reduces wait time and routes compute to where it is needed most.
Data in a secure datacentre or server room is a smaller attack vector than data dispersed across a multitude of laptops.
Centralised resources ensure all team members are working off the same data source, regardless of where they are working from.
High performance GPU compute can be purposed for rendering and private AI models as and when needed. Flexible resources enable multiple use cases to adjust with your team as it evolves.
Track B
Simple, transparent and competitive cost model avoids the opaqueness and lack of control inherent in hyperscaler services.
A balance of capex and opex enable greater cost efficiency and control over critical assets.
A scoped pilot and incremental adoption prevent over commitment and enable adequate assessment.
ISO 27001 certification, UK incorporation and documented architecture, PI insurers and supplier due diligence. Successfully used in Secure by Design approved MOD projects.
Inevitech’s independence from hyperscalers and other big tech mitigates against vendor lock in, cost creep, forced migrations and other disruptive activity. We retain sovereignty over our actions so we can offer our customers the same.
Many leading architectural practices use Inevitech services for the most demanding workflows. Our case studies below attest to the performance and capability of our platform.
We are not reselling someone else’s cloud. The platform is ours – from hardware to web portal – which is why performance and pricing can be guaranteed.
We offer a high resolution, multi-monitor, low latency experience to match the exacting demands of BIM users and visualisers.
Inevitech’s founders developed the platform with two decade’s worth of experience working with and for architectural firms.
Case studies
Leading architectural practices trust Inevitech services. Read about their experiences first.
Global architecture practice that moved around 220 designers across UK and European studios onto Inevidesk virtual desktops in days.
The first Inevitech customer in 2020, becoming fully virtualised and hosted in 2021 and evolving on the platform ever since.
Award-winning architects in London and Copenhagen, reducing their carbon footprint whilst improving international collaboration.
A discussion, not a pitch. We want to understand your organisation and how we can best help. Expect to discuss:
• What problems you are experiencing and what you would like to improve.
• An explanation of our unique approach and how it serves architects well.
• How your peers have deployed and use Inevitech services.
30 minutes. No obligation. We respond within one working day.
That is up to you. Host it in your on prem server room or your own datacentre. If you want to host services with us we run private cloud infrastructure operated from the UK by a UK incorporated company, under ISO 27001 certified information security processes.
Yes. GPU virtual workstations cover interactive design work in Revit, Rhino, Archicad and similar. Rendering in Enscape, Twinmotion, V-Ray and Lumion runs on dedicated Nvidia RTX or Blackwell GPU resource. We can help you map the relevant resources to your workflows.
No. If you keep your infrastructure on prem then Inevitech virtual workstations will simply connect into your existing systems. If you migrate to our hosted services then you can simply migrate the environment to our platform.
Our ‘pods’ are either installed by you on your own managed premises, or by us within our hosted environment. You will be given access to our administration portal to create your templates, manage users and deploy your ‘vdesks’. It is simple, intuitive and non-disruptive.
Cost, performance and ease of implementation and administration. Our cost model is simple, transparent and way more competitive. Inevitech was designed to provide genuine workstation level performance with VDI in collaboration with architects. Our management system is intuitive and efficient. We are true UK sovereign in terms of ownership and location.
Our cost model is based on the specification of our ‘pods’ and the number of virtual workstations you need to run. Our IaaS services are simply based on pod hosting, CPU, RAM and storage. No egress, throughput or usage fees. We can map out costs with you based on your anticipated requirements.
Our contract terms are generally annual and most services are subject to 90 day notice. We don’t invoke any egress fees so customers are free to exit when they wish without financial consequence. Our services are built on open source foundations and there are therefore no third party obligations to be of concern.
Yes, we have been ISO 27001 certified consistently since 2021.
LLMs generally run on GPU infrastructure. Our platform has been developed to enable the deployment of a range of AI models to which compute resources can be allocated. This can be done on standard workstation pods or specifically configured private AI pods with high performance Nvidia Blackwell GPUs.
