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While students at Georgian College finish up their classes in May, the Ontario school’s IT department will be going live with a virtualization project that will consolidate 30 servers into about a dozen.

Georgian College, which has campuses in Bracebridge, Owen Sound and Orillia, among other locations, has chosen VMware software to handle its virtualization chores. The project is being guided by consultants from Dell Canada, with whom Georgian College formed a formal vendor of record relationship about two years ago.

The school had been standardized on IBM equipment for six years before switching to Dell’s lineup, including its Optiplex GX620 desktop computers in the library, classrooms and individual study labs, 14 Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers and a Dell/EMC CX3-20 SAN array. Georgian College’s full-time faculty, meanwhile, are using Latitude D820 notebooks.

Very cool, it’s always interesting to see how the technology is being used, interestingly they’ve managed to consolidate 30 servers to about 12, which is very cool, should bring direct and indirect cost benefits.

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