Case Study: University of South Carolina Upstate achieves anytime, anywhere student access and improved success with VMware Horizon, App Volumes, and vSAN

VMware Solutions help the University of South Carolina Upstate Improve Services and Save Costs

The University of South Carolina Upstate, a metropolitan campus in Spartanburg serving about 6,000 students—many of them non-traditional, commuter, or first‑generation—faced aging lab hardware, limited IT staff and fragmented storage that constrained online and on‑demand education and made it hard to provide timely access to course software.

USC Upstate implemented VMware Horizon, App Volumes and vSAN to build Spartan GreenSky, a secure digital workspace that streams 40+ course applications and runs on all‑flash hyper‑converged storage. The deployment halved VM redeployment time, gave students and faculty fast, anytime access from any device, cut software licensing and lab costs, improved IT efficiency, and enabled higher‑performance computing and expansion of online programs.

University of South Carolina Upstate

Clif Flyn

Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs