“The time it took me to rebuild Citrix in our new environment took a lot longer than building a new Parallels RAS install from scratch—and I’d had no training on it.”
Head of IT Operations
The challengeYour World Recruitment needed a simpler, faster solution for virtual app delivery
Your World Recruitment is a community of healthcare professionals united by a mission to deliver exceptional patient care. With operations across the UK and Ireland and a global workforce, the company provides essential clinical and administrative staff to healthcare organizations worldwide.
The IT team—comprised of generalists managing a complex hybrid environment—needed a unified, easy-to-manage solution that could reliably deliver both standard office and specialized healthcare applications to a distributed workforce.
Delivering critical healthcare applications like SQL database-driven tools requires low-latency connections and consistent performance. Hosting these apps locally wasn’t feasible due to geographic distribution and scaling limitations.
Your World Recruitment had previously relied on VMware VxRail and Citrix, but changing licensing models and performance challenges led to operational inefficiencies. Although they tested alternative virtualization solutions, none met the company’s stringent performance and management requirements.
“We’d had enough of Citrix Cloud—it was just too slow. It’s great to use a tool like Parallels RAS that’s responsive again.”
The testCould Parallels RAS bridge the gaps left by a legacy system and support Your World Recruitment’s modern infrastructure?
In late 2024, Your World Recruitment began modernizing its infrastructure by migrating from VMware ESX to Nutanix AHV and adopting Nutanix Kubernetes Engine (NKE) for containerized workloads.
After positive feedback from peers and further evaluation at Nutanix .Next London in February 2025, the company selected Parallels RAS to deliver its virtual applications and desktops. Within six months, Parallels RAS was fully deployed in production, replacing the legacy environment entirely.
The new solution integrates seamlessly across two Nutanix AHV clusters, using Nutanix Files to store user profiles and Cato Networks for optimized connectivity and enhanced business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR).
“We immediately saw that Parallels RAS was our Citrix killer.”
The solutionMigrating to Parallels RAS and Nutanix introduced transformative performance gains
With this new solution, Your World Recruitment achieved:
- 300% improvement in response times for users accessing applications hosted in the UK—particularly beneficial for remote staff in Asia
- Simplified management for a small IT team, eliminating the need for multiple specialized skill sets
- Improved resilience through BC/DR capabilities across multiple Nutanix clusters
- Effortless integration between Parallels RAS and Nutanix AHV, environments
“Personally, I think Parallels RAS is just better when you’re trying to figure issues out. The monitoring is excellent.”
The resultBetter application delivery and access for a global workforce without compromising security
By replacing Citrix and VMware with Parallels RAS, Your World Recruitment now delivers critical healthcare applications securely and efficiently across a distributed global workforce. The combination of Nutanix infrastructure and Parallels RAS has given the IT team full control, simplicity, and performance—ensuring that healthcare professionals can focus on what matters most: Delivering exceptional patient care.
“It’s great to use a tool like Parallels RAS that’s responsive again.”
IT Director
