Case Study: Laguna College of Art and Design boosts IT efficiency, cuts bandwidth costs by 20% and maintains federal compliance with Splunk Light

LCAD Increases IT Efficiency, Reduces Bandwidth Costs, Maintains Federal Compliance With Splunk Light

Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD) is a private four‑year art and design college serving 500+ students across five locations. With a two‑person IT team, LCAD lacked centralized visibility into its distributed servers and network, relied on time‑consuming manual log checks, and needed to meet federal funding compliance requirements.

By deploying Splunk Light as a centralized logging and monitoring solution, LCAD gained real‑time and historical visibility across roughly 100 devices (with plans to expand), enabling faster outage detection and compliance investigations. The college reported a 75% reduction in log‑monitoring time, a 20% cut in Internet bandwidth costs, and headcount savings equivalent to a full‑time employee while better maintaining federal compliance.

Laguna College of Art and Design

Matt Morton

Director of IT