Incremental VDI Solution for Jones College
Jones College is located in Ellisville, Mississippi, just northeast of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Jones College has one main location with many buildings on one site.
Jones College contended with a common IT problem of maintaining desktop computers for faculty and students. The continual stress of replacing and maintaining desktop computers put a strain on the Technology Department. Additionally, maintaining consistency in hardware was difficult with frequently changing desktop models, drivers, and software packages. “What used to take an army to maintain can now be managed by one person. Gone are the days of getting together a band of technicians to go and fix a massive lab,” states Aaron Huff – Jones College VDI Administrator.
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The Beck Group: VDI for GPU Intensive Workloads
Founded in 1912, the Beck Group has a long and stellar history in the building design and construction industry. With six offices in the US and one in Mexico, their work is trendsetting, groundbreaking, and award winning. Over the last 100 years they have been in business, the IT needs for the construction industry have dramatically changed. Sophisticated applications like computer-aided design (CAD), building information modeling (BIM), and other advanced technologies have required the ability to access powerful workstations that are stationary and required to be managed as individual instances. Download Full Report
VDI Solution for St. Petersburg College - Phase I
St. Petersburg College is a university located in Pinellas County, Florida. James Panagiotacos, Coordinator -Virtual Desktop Services for St. Petersburg College, investigated VDI in the past, but concluded it was cost prohibitive versus buying desktop computers. “A big factor to us was that HVE offered a predictable scale model for VDI – something every other vendor we evaluated were hard pressed to do.” said Panagiotacos. Download Full Report
Virtualization for Dallas County School District
Brownsboro ISD is a growing district with a number of older computers requiring frequent repairs as well as an increasing number of new computers being added in the district. The technology staff was not increasing, further compounding the problem. Todd Sissom, Director of Technology, put it this way, “We had a lot of machines that were aging out, and we wanted to try and see how we could squeeze more life out of those. Download Full Report
HVE-STAGE Server Virtualization for Mansfield ISD
Mansfield Independent School District purchased Business and Student Management and Information System solutions from Skyward, Inc. The solutions provided by Skyward, Inc. are recommended by the Texas Education Agency as a preferred provider for student information systems in Texas. Mansfield was assured that they were not too large of a district and that their needs could be met by Skyward. However, administrative staff experienced poor performance while performing daily tasks within Skyward. Download Full Report
Contract support services for Lindsay ISD
Lindsay ISD was suffering from a problem common to many school districts. They had aging computers, but a full refresh was not in the budget. DeAnne Page is the Director of Finance and Support Services at Lindsay ISD, and has a strong finance background. When she took over the technology department, she knew something would have to change. Previous technology decision makers had begun installing Macs in computer labs, but at $3,000 a piece, adding more Mac labs was not in the budget. Nearly all the remaining PCs were in need of replacing. "Most of our stuff at Lindsay ISD really needed to be replaced. We probably needed to get rid of 90% of what we had and buy new, but that wasn’t going to happen," Page says. Download Full Report
VDI Solution for Moss Point School District.
Moss Point School District, like many school districts across the United States, is challenged by an increase in technology initiatives that require upgraded hardware and Windows operating systems, but their district is primarily comprised of older computers which also require frequent repairs. Due to budget cuts, the technology staff has been reduced, and funding for technology was decreased, yet technology demands have increased with education initiatives like Common Core, district assessments, computer-based learning, online learning systems, and online testing. Download Full Report
VDI Appliance install for Brownsboro ISD.
Brownsboro ISD is a growing district with a number of older computers requiring frequent repairs as well as an increasing number of new computers being added in the district. The technology staff was not increasing, further compounding the problem. Todd Sissom, Director of Technology, put it this way, “We had a lot of machines that were aging out, and we wanted to try and see how we could squeeze more life out of those. Download Full Report
Desktop and Server Virtualization for Biloxi School District.
Biloxi School District found itself challenged by an increase in technology initiatives, but their district is primarily comprised of older computers which require frequent repairs, replacement, and upgrades to accommodate the new technology requirements. These technology initiatives which focus on advanced placement programs like STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and ALP (Advanced Learner Program) require upgraded hardware and Windows operating systems. Due to budget cuts, the technology staff has been reduced, and funding for technology was decreased, yet all technology demands have increased with educational initiatives like Common Core, district assessments, computerbased learning, online learning systems, and online testing Download Full Report
