Case Study: Oregon State University improves lab management and cuts costs with Nerdio and Azure Virtual Desktop

Oregon State University cuts lab management time by 40% with Nerdio

Oregon State University's College of Business needed a flexible and cost-effective solution to modernize its student computer labs. Their existing on-premises VMware Horizon environment was costly, inflexible, and unable to meet the dynamic needs of students, placing a heavy burden on a small IT staff. This challenge prompted them to seek a new solution with vendor Nerdio and its product, Nerdio Manager for Enterprise.

The solution implemented by Nerdio was a transition to Azure Virtual Desktop, which provided on-demand access to resources and automated scaling. Nerdio's automation powered virtual machines up only when students logged in and swapped to lower-cost storage when not in use, leading to significant cost reductions. This resulted in a 40% time savings for the IT team, provided twice the compute power to students, and created a manageable operational expense model that replaced large capital budget requests.

Oregon State University