Case Study: Hartlepool College saves £32k a year with VMware Horizon from Phoenix Software

Hartlepool College saves £32k a year and increases student retention with VMware Horizon

Hartlepool College worked with Phoenix Software to improve a virtual desktop environment that was slow, unreliable, and frustrating for students and staff. The college needed faster logins, better application performance, fewer outages, and a more dependable IT experience to support student retention and day-to-day productivity.

Phoenix Software helped Hartlepool College deploy VMware Horizon as a virtual desktop solution, running over its existing server infrastructure. The new system reduced login times from up to 20 minutes to under a minute, cut application launch times dramatically, eliminated major downtime issues, reduced help desk calls, and delivered significant savings including a reduced PC refresh budget, over £18,000 a year in power savings, and an estimated £50,000 in VDI maintenance savings over five years.

Hartlepool College

Gerald Nicholson

IT Manager