Case Study: Iowa Workforce Development achieves faster, cost-efficient workforce services with IP Pathways and FlexPod

Iowa Workforce Development saves $6.5 million annually with IP Pathways

Iowa Workforce Development (IWD), a major state agency, faced significant challenges after deep federal funding cuts forced the closure of more than half of its offices. The agency needed to find a cost-efficient way to continue delivering its broad range of workforce services to hundreds of thousands of Iowans. IWD engaged IP Pathways to implement a groundbreaking solution built on a VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) supported by NetApp storage and Cisco servers.

IP Pathways delivered a complete FlexPod Datacenter solution from NetApp and Cisco, which provided the foundation for IWD's VDI and critical Oracle databases. The results were transformative, saving the agency $6.5 million annually by eliminating physical offices and dramatically improving IT efficiency. Backup times for Oracle databases were reduced from over four hours to just ninety seconds, and storage requirements were cut by 36%, saving 10TB. This powerful, flexible infrastructure allows IWD to reliably deliver services to more citizens across all 99 Iowa counties.

Iowa Workforce Development (iwd)