Case Study: Remington College achieves cost savings and flexible desktop management with Connection Inc

How Remington College Handled a Large and Geographically Dispersed Desktop Refresh

Remington College, a multi-campus institution, needed to refresh nearly 4,000 desktops across its 20 locations. The initial challenge was to manage this large-scale hardware upgrade in a cost-effective manner while also aiming to improve system management and administrative flexibility. They engaged their trusted IT partner, Connection Inc, to help navigate the project and discovered a better solution than a simple one-to-one desktop replacement.

Connection Inc guided Remington College to implement a cost-saving nettop solution combined with Microsoft App-V for application virtualization. This centralized software management allowed IT to deploy applications to any classroom, providing immense scheduling flexibility and reducing the need for on-site technical support. The results included significant cost and power savings, a reduction in classroom heat, and a smaller hardware footprint. CIO Chuck Farraj praised Connection Inc as an instrumental "A+ team" that helped achieve all of their goals.

Remington College

Chuck Farraj

Chief Information Officer