Case Study: Technical College System of Georgia achieves standardized IT, 24/7 student access, and $550K/year savings with NetApp FlexPod

Making High-Quality Higher Education Affordable

The Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) serves more than 100,000 students across 22 colleges and 85 campuses, providing affordable technical and adult education. With each college running different network, compute, and storage architectures, the System Office faced skyrocketing maintenance costs and a nearly impossible support burden that threatened nonstop access to student information and online courses.

TCSG standardized on FlexPod (NetApp storage, Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Nexus switches), unifying operations under a single validated platform. The converged solution simplified support, delivered high availability and nondisruptive maintenance, reduced storage needs with deduplication/compression/thin provisioning, extended existing hardware life, saved more than $550,000 per year in legacy maintenance, and enabled centralized backups and a move toward a hybrid‑cloud strategy.

Technical College System of Georgia

Daniel Black

Director of Engineering