Case Study: Kempenhorst College achieves fast, flexible VDI access and major time and cost savings with Pure Storage

Kempenhorst College Provides Students with Flexible Access and Speed to School Applications with Pure Storage

Kempenhorst College, a Dutch VMBO school with about 150 staff and 1,100 students, needed to modernize an aging Windows XP environment and deliver fast, flexible access to school applications — including CPU- and storage‑intensive CAD 3D workstations — across roughly 450 virtual workstations. The school faced costly administration, lesson disruption from infrastructure bottlenecks, and the need for a cost‑effective, scalable storage solution to make VDI viable.

Using VMware Horizon View with a Pure Storage FlashArray (FA‑420) and thin clients, Kempenhorst moved processing to the data center and virtualized CAD workstations. The result: VDI sessions now start in under 30 seconds, updates that once took 24 hours typically finish in 30 minutes, data reduction exceeds 6:1 (>80%), annual electricity and cooling savings of about €10,000, faster backups, dramatically simplified administration, and improved scalability and user satisfaction among students and staff.

Kempenhorst College

Jan-Henri Grilis

System Manager