Case Study: Epiphany School of Global Studies achieves all‑flash VDI performance and 80% storage savings with Atlantis Computing (Atlantis HyperScale)

Atlantis hyperscale boosts prep school’s vdi performance to an a+

The Epiphany School of Global Studies, a college‑prep school in New Bern, NC with about 500 daily users, was struggling with slow Citrix VDI performance that disrupted classes and media labs. Multiple hardware upgrades to three HP servers — more RAM, drives and a QNAP array — failed to stop disk‑queue bottlenecks and frequent slowdowns that hampered students and staff.

Epiphany replaced the old stack with an Atlantis HyperScale all‑flash, in‑memory hyperconverged appliance on Supermicro (four nodes with 12 TB and 256 GB RAM per node) and a 10‑Gbit switch. The new solution delivered instant performance improvements, reduced overall storage needs by ~80% (VDI by ~96%), cut power use to ~30% of the prior setup, eliminated complaints about slowness, and provided headroom to scale.

Epiphany School of Global Studies

Bobbi Jo Kelly

Director of Technology