Case Study: Jeff Tech achieves simpler, high-performance VDI with Tintri

Jefferson County Vocational-Technical School Makes the Smart Move to Tintri

Jeff Tech, the Jefferson County-DuBois Area Vocational-Technical School in Reynoldsville, PA, needed faster, simpler storage for its VMware Horizon View virtual desktop environment after struggling with slow Dell EqualLogic and costly JetStor systems. With 400 students and 70 staff relying on virtual desktops and limited IT resources, the school wanted better performance, easier management, and a way to support more educational technology initiatives.

Tintri, recommended by Virtix IT, implemented a Tintri VMstore T820 for Jeff Tech’s virtual desktops and workloads. The move was described as smooth, delivered VM-level visibility and much simpler storage management, and enabled the school to reduce SAN tuning and overhead to near zero. Jeff Tech reported significant OpEx savings, improved VDI performance, and a path toward fully virtualizing its servers and eventually replacing all physical machines.

Jeff Tech

Bob Wachob

IT Director