Case Study: Lafayette College achieves lower costs and faster IT provisioning with Red Hat

Lafayette College Improves Educational Experience by Virtualizing with Red Hat

Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania serving 2,500 students, needed a more flexible and cost-effective IT environment. Its existing virtualized setup was expensive, inflexible, and prone to stability issues during peak periods like student registration. The college turned to Red Hat for help, using Red Hat Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with Red Hat Satellite to manage the environment.

With Red Hat, Lafayette College eliminated vendor lock-in, lowered licensing costs, and reduced VM provisioning time from days to minutes. Red Hat Satellite helped the college provision, configure, and update systems more efficiently, improving stability and scalability for high-traffic workloads. The result was a faster, more reliable infrastructure that boosted faculty productivity and better supported campus services.

Lafayette College

Nathan Lager

Senior Systems Administrator