INDUSTRY
Education

LOCATION
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

KEY CHALLENGES

• Infrastructure bottlenecks prevented students and faculty from launching and using applications. • IT team lost productivity dealing with complaints about system performance.

• Administration wanted to reduce CapEx and storage costs.

SOLUTION

To address escalating complaints about desktop performance, and to streamline IT management, Queen’s University Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science implemented VMware Horizon desktop virtualization and the VMware Virtual SAN hyper-converged infrastructure solution.

BUSINESS BENEFITS

• Eliminated infrastructure usage spikes and lag in application launch times

• Increased performance for 3D modeling and Microsoft Office applications

• Simplified and reduced costs for IT and storage growth, streamlined desktop management

Access the full case study here: VMware Queen’s University Case Study

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